{"product_id":"to-be-loved-a-story-of-truth-trauma-and-transformation","title":"To Be Loved: A Story of Truth, Trauma, and Transformation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Leading trauma expert Frank Anderson gifts us with an intimate and vulnerable glimpse into his personal journey of self-discovery to overcome his own childhood trauma. \u003cem\u003eTo Be Loved\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautifully written and empowering story of resilience, healing, and forgiveness that offers hope for all survivors of childhood trauma.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e-Nicole LePera, PhD, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller \u003cem\u003eHow to Be the Love You Seek\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHow to Do the Work\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eTo Be Loved\u003c\/em\u003e captures the precious fragility of a childhood impacted in equal measure by authentic love and deep dysfunction. Filled with humor, empathy, and candid self-reflection, Frank's story demonstrates the power of love to heal trauma, develop resilience, and ultimately find forgiveness and restoration.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e-Lori Gottlieb, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author, TED speaker, co-host of the popular Dear Therapists podcast, and Dear Therapist columnist for \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRarely does a trauma therapist disclose their own trauma history . . . yet it's the untold, brutally honest, incredibly heartbreaking story of Dr. Frank Anderson that made him the world-renowned trauma expert he is today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKnown for his magnetic and radiant personality, Frank spends his time training thousands of clinicians around the world on how to help clients with complex trauma make sense of their suffering. But underneath this charismatic exterior are his dark family secrets, including the marks of child abuse from his father and the invisible scars of shame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHis colleagues and fellow therapists would never know this . . . until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTo Be Loved\u003c\/em\u003e, Frank shares his confusing experience of growing up an outsider in a typical midwestern Italian American home that was at one turn fiercely loving but at the same time unaccepting, abusive, and rife with secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter enduring six years of therapy as a child in the 1970s, he was programmed to be something that he wasn't for decades, and became driven to create the perfect life--complete with a family, a successful career and a house with white picket fence in the suburbs--until it all fell apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was only then that he realized resilience, forgiveness and facing his trauma were the keys to living an authentic life--and finally knowing what it feels like to be loved.\u003c\/p\u003e\r","brand":"Frank G. Anderson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44464739156204,"sku":"9781962305112","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781962305112.jpg?v=1709491135","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/to-be-loved-a-story-of-truth-trauma-and-transformation","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}