Daughters of Divorce - by Terry Gaspard & Tracy Clifford (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Restore your faith in love and build healthy, successful relationships with this essential guide for every woman haunted by her parents' divorce.

Silver Medal Independent Publisher's Award

Winner of the Best Book Award in "Self-Help: Relationships"

Over 40 percent of Americans ages eighteen to forty are children of divorce. Yet women with divorced parents are more than twice as likely than men to get divorced themselves and struggle in romantic relationships. In this powerful, uplifting guide, mother-daughter team Terry and Tracy draws on thirty years of clinical practice and interviews with over 320 daughters of divorce to help you recognize and overcome the unique emotional issues that parental separation creates so you can build the happy, long-lasting relationships you deserve.

Learn how to:

• Examine your parents' breakup from an adult perspective
• Heal the wounds of the past
• Recognize destructive dynamics in intimate relationships and take steps to change them
• Trust yourself and others by embracing vulnerability
• Create strong partnerships with their proven Seven Steps to a Successful Relationship
• Break the divorce legacy once and for all!

Review Quotes

"...the authors' solid and empathetic advice is applicable to anyone who has suffered childhood traumas affecting his or her ability to trust in the power of love." -- Publishers Weekly

"Daughters of Divorce is an original and timely treatment of a very important topic. Bravely told from the perspective of the authors, a divorced mother and her daughter, Daughters of Divorce provides empathy, guidance and wisdom for those who are struggling to understand the impact of divorce on their lives and choices. Highly recommended!" -- Joshua Coleman, Ph.D. Psychologist and author of When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along

"Finally! A book about divorce that is specifically focused on women. This thoughtful, insightful and uplifting book acknowledges the unique impact of divorce on its daughters while offering concrete steps and practical solutions." -- Elisabeth J. LaMotte LICSW, author of Overcoming Your Parents' Divorce

"If you're in a family of divorce as a daughter or parent this book is for you. Gaspard and Clifford are a mother and daughter who have gone through it themselves. From self-esteem to the impact on your relationships, this book gives you practical doable action steps to help you learn how to change your story or narrative and see divorce through adult eyes. It can be very helpful for adult children of divorce, and for mothers and fathers who are looking for insights and ideas to help their daughters." -- Jeff Zimmerman, ABPP Clinical Psychologist and co-author of Adult Children of Divorce and The Co-Parenting Survival Guide

"Rarely have I read a book that is as honest, courageous and optimistic as Terry Gaspard's Daughters of Divorce. Ms. Gaspard has skillfully crafted a book that combines authenticity, warmth and clinical expertise - a rare combination in the self-help genre. This gem of a book is chock filled with intriguing personal reflection, vignettes, tasks and assignments. It is a virtual handbook for daughters seeking to stop this transgenerational pattern, dead in its tracks." -- Ross Rosenberg, M.Ed., LCPC, CADC, CSAT, author of The Human Magnet Syndrome: Why We Love People Who Hurt Us