Growing Beyond Your Family of Origin Experience

Have you ever considered just WHAT you were handed from your family? What advantages, disadvantages, skills or experiences did your family give you which you now use to build your current and future life with? If you have ever wondered what is behind how you think, feel and act, this book will help you unravel an understanding of how your family experience fed into creating the person you now look at in the mirror. If you have ever felt stuck or gummed up in achieving what you want in your relationships with others and family, or have wondered just how the positive things that were handed to you now work to enrich your life in specific areas, then reading this book can set you on a path of understanding, growth and satisfaction that will be rewarding and hopeful. Within this book you will find a comprehensive Family Awareness Questionnaire (F.A.Q.) which contains 118 questions which are designed to illuminate a full range of your family experiences growing up, followed by feedback on the likely emotions, mental conclusions and possible behaviors which you may find yourself exhibiting at this time as a result of your experiences. You will also find chapters on key decision points in building family success and how to more successfully navigate the ever changing waters of family life over time, and the questions these chapters pertain to in the F.A.Q. are listed for cross referencing. Extensive appendices are included to help you understand and communicate emotions and mental conclusions that are part of you. What emotions are part of your life experiences now? How can understanding these help to enrich your life? What mental conclusions about life, people and relationships float around from time to time in your head? What has created these? The journey of reading this book will take you through an understanding of these ever-present parts of existence and how self-understanding can lead to a more whole and complete life experience, with freedom to grow toward your best self. Your family handed you a torch to run the race of life with, so how are you doing
About the Author: Dr. John C. Pulver is a Professor of Sociology at the College of Southern Nevada, where he has taught Sociology and Psychology for the past 24 years. John is a Licensed Marriage and Family Counselor (Nevada) whose previous practice specialized in couples counseling, recovery from addictions and abuse, and issues stemming from earlier family experiences. Informing his writing is the fact that he has experienced every type of family structure himself, except for adoption or foster care, and has decades of experience assisting others in coming to understand what has created the tapestry of their current lives.