Making Your Way After Your Parents' Divorce: A Supportive Guide for Personal Growth

Cassella, Lynn

ISBN 10: 0764808729 / ISBN 13: 9780764808722

Published by Liguori Publications, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Your Way After Your Parents' Divorce: A Supportive Guide for Personal Growth
• Publisher: Liguori Publications
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764808729
• ISBN 13: 9780764808722
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Written by a “child of divorce” for “children of divorce,” Making Your Way After Your Parents’ Divorce is a supportive guide that helps personal growth. It takes an honest look at the effects that divorce can have in the life of a teenager or young adult, and the ways that they can move toward healing and forgiveness after their parents’ divorce.

Although aimed at teenagers and young adults, this book is a valuable resource for counselors, ministers, religious educators, social workers, and divorced parents themselves. Ideal for both individual and group use.

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About the Author

Lynn Cassella brings over thirty years’ personal experience to her ministry of young people and young adults with separated or divorced parents. Her parents separated when she was eleven, then divorced five years later. This experience has given her a firsthand understanding of the grief of children of divorce along with other obstacles they face in overcoming it.

She is the President and Founder of the Faith Journeys Foundation, Inc.Through weekly discussion groups and day retreats, Lynn helps these young people confront and resolve through a faith-based perspective the difficulties resulting from their parents’ separation or divorce. She also gives presentations and workshops for parents and youth leaders so they may more effectively minister to these young people.

In her book, Making Your Way After Your Parents’ Divorce: A Supportive Guide for Personal Growth, Lynn gives young people the best of what she’s learned on her journey towards healing. She also provides them with a compassionate and stimulating tool for moving through grief. Including curricula for children aged 16 through young adult, this guide is tailor made for support groups and retreats as well as individual reflection.

She is also the author of When Parents Divorce . . . How to Comfort Teens and Young Adults.

Lynn has been featured on NBC TV, Fox News, numerous radio stations and in various publications across the country.