Healing Abandonment with Susan Anderson

Susan Anderson gets frequent requests for individual psychotherapy from people visiting her website or reading her abandonment books. Due to scheduling issues, Susan can give only occasional one-on-one abandonment consultations to new folks.

Is it possible to feel a genuine belonging with someone who sees all of you? Is it possible to come into a relationship and not feel burdened by the needs of others? Is it possible to care deeply about another person's experience, and not (by default)...

When someone rejects you they acquire power in your mind. They acquire power due to their ability to inflict pain. The more they hurt you the harder it is to let go. This is the painful paradox of abandonment.

Just as we manage to make it through the winter holidays, here come the bright red hearts of Valentine's Day, and it can be bittersweet.

Reverse the Universal Wound of Abandonment at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Stockbridge, MA, from March 28 - 30 2025.

Do your abandonment issues hold you back? Are you in heartbreak? Does insecurity cause you to sabotage your relationships? Join Susan Anderson for an ONLINE workshop: Healing Abandonment and Self Sabotage – 5 Sessions.

You mean I have to make a choice? Yes, usually. So many of us have dreams, hopes, and goals but we keep going in circles instead of taking productive steps toward achieving them. As time goes on, they seem to slip further and further into the distance.

In a word, yes. In more words … Separation anxiety is the basis for all emotional distress, whether it be in the form of anxiety, depression, insecurity-in-relationships, fear-of-loss.

Did your lover leave you? Do you want to know how to get over heartbreak but don't know where to begin? Abandonment is a knife wound to the heart. It is highly vulnerable to infection and can leave scarring.

Do you know someone who stays in a bad relationship? What hooks them? The standard answer is that they don't feel good enough about themselves. They don't feel they deserve better. They have a low sense of entitlement.