Changing Course

Healing from Loss, Abandonment, and Fear

In Changing Course—now fully revised and updated—Claudia Black extends a helping hand to individuals overcoming the complex trauma of growing up in a dysfunctional family system. Don’t talk. Don’t trust. Don’t feel.

Being raised in a dysfunctional family system, whether unpredictable and chaotic or overly rigid and joyless, can set the course for chronic emotional pain in adulthood. Changing Course, the bestselling follow-up to It Will Never Happen to Me, is a gentle, affirming guide to healing from childhood experiences of loss, abandonment, fear, and shame. Through interactive questions, charts, exercises, and real-life stories, Black carefully and expertly presents a process of healing from the chaos. You will learn four essential steps you can use to let go of old hurtful beliefs and behaviors and develop new skills for both redefining self and negotiating relationships.