New Beginnings: A Creative Writing Guide for Women Who Have Left Abusive Partners (New Leaf Series)

New Beginnings is an empowering book for any woman who has experienced an abusive relationship and wants to move forward with a new life. Using creative writing as part of the healing process the book offers guidance support and concrete steps for rebuilding your self-confidence and rediscovering your personal strength and independence.Each chapter presents a new topic including first-person stories from formerly abused women and a guided writing exercise that will spark your creativity and help you explore issues such as grieving and letting go of the old relationship staying emotionally and physically safe after you have left establishing a new network of friends and supporters recognizing and nurturing new relationships that are healthy and satisfying and setting new life goals - and achieving them.

Series: New Leaf Series

Paperback: 136 pages

Publisher: Seal Press; First Edition edition (July 26 1996)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1878067788

ISBN-13: 978-1878067784

Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 0.5 x 8.8 inches

Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces