As they begin to understand and challenge their early learning, they gain the confidence and understanding they need to face the lessons of life on their own terms. In nearly 40 years of psychotherapy practice, I have watched with awe as clients come to understand the power of childhood experience�how it can affect their lives without their knowledge.
These old, learned ways of thinking and acting can create chaos in your life that resembles the upheaval of the past. But most of us actually get far larger inheritances of habits, attitudes, beliefs, and patterns. Most people tend to think of family legacies in terms of handed-down furniture, mementos, and money. The purpose of It Ends With You is to lead you from the problems of the past into a satisfying, joyful, and successful future. But it can be done, if you have the right tools and support. To grow up and out of a painful, dysfunctional past and all its leftovers�feelings, memories, pain, confusion, anger, fear, and persistent dysfunctional relationship patterns� may seem like a miracle, too wonderful to be possible. “Miracles do happen,” wrote Chaim Weizman, the first President of Israel “but one has to work very hard for them.”
