The Son I Knew Too Late: A Guide to Help You Survive and Thrive

ISBN: 0578643960

Author: Raymond, Lmft Sally

Condition: New

This book saves lives. its only purpose is to help you or someone you love know at every stage of growth what matters, and what to avoid to keep life worth the living.Too many today feel overwhelmed whether by anxiety, depression, anger or hopelessness, ending in an epidemic of lost lives. As Sally Raymond own son had, leaving her lost in grief and flayed by questions. Why would her bright, successful 23 year old son Jon take his life? What had she as a Mom missed, and what did she need to know and do that she obvsiously didn't? Just licensed as a psychotherapist when this happened, she had the exact insights and tools parents never have to possibly find some answers.His loss hurled her onto a search for his truths, the ones that must make sense of his last choice--and, over many years, using Erik Erikson's Eight Stages of Human Development--she finds them. In this book, Jon's true stories at each age of life, viewed through Erikson's lens, helps readers know what precisely to support at each age, and also avoid that helps keep lives hopeful, growing, learning and thriving from birth all the way up to their own triumphant, long-lived finale.No, Jon's fate need not be yours--nor your children's. Understanding each stage of development from inside as we grow can help children and adults alike steer toward wholeness, joy, and fulfillment. Borne from heartbreak, this book is supremely a book of hope.