Ouch! Life Can Hurt, but Healing Is Your Choice

By Susan R. Germanson

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0533134811
• ISBN13: 9780533134816
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Vantage Pr
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Ouch is helping us heal with words of wisdom

Since before its release this book has been helping individuals who are faced with issues that effect our everyday lives, I happen to be one of those individuals. I am a student at Champlin Park, where Mrs. Germanson is Spanish teacher. I have not had the pleasure of having her as a teacher, but I have been lucky enough to know her on a more personal level. I have had a very difficult life, to say the least, and Mrs. Germanson heard my story through another teacher and she has been most understanding and she offered me a book, trying to do anything she could to help. When I began reading the book I was basically overwhelmed with the knowledge this woman holds. I found myself hooked-unable to put it down. She is so smart and she has been through so much-she is an incredibly strong woman, who has survived and is using her pain to help others. I found this book very helpful in overcoming my problems and moving on. This book is 140 pages of great advice and compassionate insight. It comes from a woman who has been to "heck" and back and is still here to talk about it, not only is she talking about it she is trying to put her live's trials and tribulations into words to help others. With sections on surviving a crisis, healing in all aspects of your life, moving forward and abuse and abandonment this book can help anyone. It is full of thoughts and words of encouragement for everyone. Her writing is incredible and she finds ways to avoid her own personal problems, but we still get a sense of what she has gone through. She puts all the problems into perspective and uses her own experiences to help us. But she doesn't focus on her problems because she knows that we're dealing with enough. She also includes illustrations and charts showing how we can heal in a healthy way and still keep our sanity. This book puts into contrast all the small and BIG problems that we all experience. The best part about this book is that she gives up space to write our own thoughts, sort of a journal entry, to put down our thoughts and feelings and things we can do to make our lives better. These sections for our thoughts are at the end of every section, and they really help you understand your situation. Well, with the format that she uses you can hear about how others have overcome their problems and get some great ideas for how to deal with your own situation. This book is basically all about dealing with your own issues. She talks about setting boundries and not enabling people to hurt you, she gives us ways to be strong and stand up for ourselves. She talks about believing that you can make it and shows us ways to do so. She talks about how you can avoid self-sabotage and fix your problems in a positive way. I think this book is great and I definitely recommend it to anyone who feels like they could use a little help simpy surviving, I've been there and this book really put my life into perspective for me. This book is wonderful for peopl