How women can heal from adolescent father loss.
By Laraine Herring
Published by Hazelden
“Every girl needs a ferryman to help her cross the river. When the mythic ferryman figure in her life is missing due to death or other loss, the journey is complicated.”
When you hear the testimony of women in recovery, there is almost always something about the father-daughter relationship. This is a memoir, and we have printed below what Hazelden says about the book on the back cover:
“Commitment, Trust. Intimacy. Self-confidence. Independence. These are critical areas of personal development in the passage from adolescent to adulthood. However, this path toward self–identity can become particularly difficult for women to navigate when, as adolescents they lose one of the most important relationships of their life: their relationship with their father.
“Written expressly for adult women, Lost Fathers is a healing, authoritative guide to understanding how behaviors, relationships and sense of self in adulthood are shaped by the experience of losing one’s father during adolescence to death, divorce, abandonment, incarceration or addiction.
“With gentle expertise, Laraine Herring blends poignant personal stories, the latest information in developmental psychology, and guided writing exercises in this much–needed therapeutic guide.”
