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The Shadow We Carry invites readers into a compassionate and transformative journey through the hidden wounds carried from one generation to the next. Drawing from clinical wisdom, lived experience, and years of guiding others through healing, Bettye J. Ford, Ph.D. illuminates how trauma, patterns, and emotional inheritance silently shape our lives—and how we can break free.
With clarity and warmth, Dr. Ford explains how generational pain is passed down in families, communities, and cultural histories. She reveals the ways we may unconsciously repeat old cycles—and offers the tools, awareness, and courage needed to create new ones.
Through reflective insights, therapeutic guidance, and deeply human storytelling, The Shadow We Carry empowers readers to reclaim their identity, set healthy boundaries, and write a different future. It is both a mirror and a map—offering hope, understanding, and emotional freedom to anyone ready to end the cycles of generational trauma.
Reclaim your voice, your truth and your ideal self.
This workbook guides you through a 90+ day journey of affirmations, reflection, and intentional growth. Each prompt is designed to help you release self doubt, build confidence, and reconnect with the strongest, most authentic version of yourself. Inside, you'll explore: mindset shifting affirmations, self reflection prompts, values and growth exercises, tools that support emotional healing and alignment through affirmations, gratitude and authenticity. Your ideal self is already within you. This workbook helps you bridge the gap between where you are now, and where you want to be in your life. Your ideal self!!
This therapeutic notebook is thoughtfully designed for mental health professionals seeking a clear, organized, and consistent way to document each single client’s progress over the course of one year. Inside, you’ll find structured sections for intake, weekly SOAP notes and ongoing session information, treatment planning / updates, termination or annual reviews, and billing/payment tracking. Additionally, intake form outlines are included for use or editing to your specifics. This notebook is created to be both practical and affordable so that a purchase for a full practice per year is simplifying for the practitioner. This notebook is intended to help therapists maintain clean, orderly, and easily retrievable records—simply file by client name or ID and you’re ready to go. Streamlined pages and uniform formatting support accurate documentation, smooth chart audits, and effortless daily workflow. Whether you’re in private practice or a community mental health setting, this notebook will elevate your record-keeping, reduce paperwork stress, and bring greater clarity and consistency to your clinical practice.