Leading with My Thin Chin: A Psychotherapist's Guide to Personal Recovery

Do you have an untold victim story tormenting your life? You're not alone.

But how many of us dare to face the vulnerability, bare the shame, resurrect the painful past? In this transformational guide to therapeutic freedom, former defiant, untreated victim-turned-psychotherapist Christopher Loeffler shows us how to:

• remove the corrosive shame and piece together the fragmented victim story
• name the offender to liberate numbed feelings and clarify behaviors
• create a profound new self-empathy and a more hopeful worldview

In Leading with My Thin Chin, Loeffler explores the arc of recovery-the passage from victim to survivor to advocate-in a series of vivid case stories drawn from his active practice and his personal experience. He concludes with two original tools to accelerate the healing process.

• Shame Transformation breaks down the pivotal role of shame in blocking our recovery.
• The Emancipation Process uncovers parental feelings and projections, allowing us to claim our true identity.

Christopher Loeffler is a clinical social worker at Forays Counseling Services in Denver, Colorado. He is married and the father of three grown children.