Book Announcement by Judith Ruskay Rabinor (USA)
Can a mother be both loving and selfish? Caring and thoughtless? Deceitful and devoted? These are the questions that fuel Judy Rabinor’s quest to understand her ambivalence toward her mother.
While leading a seminar exploring the importance of the mother-daughter relationship, Rabinor, an eating disorder expert, is blindsided by a memory of a childhood trauma. Realizing how this buried trauma has resonated through her life, she sets off to heal herself. The Girl in the Red Boots (She Writes Press) weaves together tales from Rabinor’s psychotherapy practice and her life, helping readers understand how painful childhood experiences can linger and leave emotional scars. In the process, Rabinor traces her own journey becoming a wounded healer and ultimately making peace with her mother, and herself.
Not a traditional self-help book outlining “steps” to reconcile or forgive one’s mother, The Girl in the Red Boots is a poignant memoir filled with hard-won life lessons, including the fact that it’s never too late to let go of hurts and disappointments and develop compassion for yourself―and even for your mother.
Judith Ruskay Rabinor, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, author and consultant to the Renfrew Center Foundation. In addition to clinical work with individuals, families and groups, she offers consultation groups for therapists, and coaches writers individually and in groups. She is the author of two previous books, A Starving Madness: Tales of Hunger, Hope and Healing in Psychotherapy and Befriending Your Ex After Divorce: Making Life Better for You, Your Kids and Yes, Your Ex. She practices in Manhattan and remotely.
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