To Be Loved
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To Be Loved

A Memoir of Truth, Trauma, and Transformation

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

To Be Loved

A Memoir of Truth, Trauma, and Transformation

About this book

Trauma blocks love. Love heals trauma. Frank was just six years old when he learned there was something wrong with him. Seriously wrong. But no one told him what it was. Instead, between attending weekly therapy sessions, navigating the passion and violence of his home life, and reading between the lines of dark family secrets, he was left to figure out for himself what the world expected him to be. Despite an unstable childhood, his remarkable intelligence, caring nature, and desperation for love and acceptance carried him from the top of his high school class to the elite residency program at Harvard University, where he ultimately became one of the world's leading experts in the treatment of trauma. Along the way, his encounters with those suffering from abuse, addiction, and mental illness inspired a sense of purposeā€¦ and an earth-shattering awakening of his authentic self. Ignited by this newfound identity, Frank embarked on a profoundā€”sometimes painfulā€”and redemptive journey that brought the love and acceptance he always longed for. *** In To Be Loved, renowned trauma expert Dr. Frank G. Anderson shares the complicated experience of growing up gay in an Italian-American home that was at once fiercely loving and culturally close-knit while at the same time unaccepting, abusive, and rife with secret shame. With compassion, humor, and disarming honesty, Frank invites the reader into his formative experiences: coming out amid the LGBTQ+ carnival atmosphere of 1990s Provincetown, finding love and forming a family within the staid Boston suburbs, and coming home to confront his family's legacy of abuse. By forging paths for forgiveness, he found that his truth and tenacious spirit were stronger than his trauma.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface: The Journey
  7. About the To Be Loved Playlist
  8. Chapter One: ā€œYouā€™re Not Going to School Todayā€
  9. Chapter Two: Mom and Dad
  10. Chapter Three: The Kids
  11. Chapter Four: Alla Famiglia
  12. Chapter Five: Made It to ā€œNormalā€
  13. Chapter Six: For the Love of Doctor
  14. Chapter Seven: Happily Ever After?
  15. Chapter Eight: Harvard, Revealed
  16. Chapter Nine: Moving Out
  17. Chapter Ten: Finding Michael
  18. Chapter Eleven: Chickens and Children
  19. Chapter Twelve: Fathers and Sons
  20. Chapter Thirteen: Let It Go
  21. Chapter Fourteen: Forgiveness, Finally
  22. Chapter Fifteen: Full Circle
  23. Chapter Sixteen: The Funeral
  24. Epilogue: Let Me Be Frank
  25. To Be Loved Playlist
  26. Acknowledgments
  27. About the Author
  28. Photos
  29. Back Cover