cover image Setting Yourself Free

Setting Yourself Free

Sarakay Smullens, Msw Smullens. New Horizon, $14.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-88282-224-2

Freedom and Inner Peace Marriage and family therapist SaraKay Smullens has written a book about a problem she says plagues children and adults of all levels and backgrounds: emotional abuse. Setting Yourself Free: Breaking the Cycle of Emotional Abuse in Family, Friendships, Work and Love explains the five common types of emotional abuse (rage, enmeshment, overprotection, abandonment and neglect) and offers advice on how people can put an end to it. Smullens bases her book on her counseling work, and her recommendations are appropriately realistic. In the end, she says, facing reality, no matter how stony its path, is the only path that can free your present and future. (July)