Books By Joan E. Childs

“Do You Hate the One You Love,” is a groundbreaking book that explores the opposing feelings of love and hate in intimate relationships and offers steps to build resilience, intimacy, and healing. This insightful book draws upon Joan E. Childs’ 46 years of experience in private practice counseling couples. It includes real-life case studies and the work of renowned therapists and researchers to provide evidence-based solutions for maintaining healthy relationships. Joan explores conscious relationships, self-discovery, mindfulness, and the importance of introspection and forgiveness in personal growth.

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After many years of vacillating between unparalleled caring, generosity, and uncontrollable angry eruptions, Pam is finally diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. However, due to difficulty and mismanagement of this insidious illness and apathetic attitudes within the health professional community as well as coping with her own personal demons, she ultimately jumps from a 15th-floor balcony. I chronicle not only Pam’s life but also, her own and our family’s struggle to understand this happening as well as the inadequacy of the health profession to treat this mental illness. My faith in the health system is challenged and proves a need for change.
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Joan’s fascinating look at the evolution of women from helpless maidens to powerful individuals follows her soulful metamorphosis. Her journey begins in the 1950’s when she came of age. Like many women of her time, she believed that she needed a man to feel worthy as a woman. She believed in the Myth of the Maiden. Despite her professional success and motherhood, she faced several failed marriages and other difficulties, which led her to realize that there was no such thing as a “happily ever after.”
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MYTH OF THE MAIDEN