Picking Up The Shards

Best Book Award Finalist and International Book Awards Silver Medal Winner, and bestselling author Anita M. Oommen, shares with brutal honesty her gut-wrenching personal account of childhood trauma, neglect, and abuse. Anita unveils decades of attachment wounds from dysfunctional relationships with her early caregivers, that led to attachment dysfunction in her current relationships, including her marriage and parenting.

If you have; experienced abandonment, rejection and neglect; suffered a toxic relationship with a family member who is on the narcissism spectrum; struggled your entire life to be seen, heard and loved; or failed to experience a felt sense of belonging in this world, this book is for you!

In this poignant educational memoir, you will learn:

• The effects of attachment dysfunction on childhood and adult relationships;
• The impacts of childhood trauma, neglect or abuse;
• The confusion and devastating effects of emotional, physical and sexual abuse;
• How to identify dysfunctional behavior, and heal the damage from the effects of childhood abuse;
• The emotional roller coaster and chaos of narcissistic abuse;
• The effects of gaslighting and psychological manipulation;
• How to counter worthlessness, fear and rejection;
• The need for boundaries in toxic relationships;
• How thrive in recovery through safe relationships and authentic community
• The power of forgiveness for self healing