[.ca] Hiding from Love: How to Change the Withdrawal Patterns ... (ISBN 0310201071)

very accessible and readable:
I think many readers may find this book useful. Whether you find it useful may depend on whether you are a beginner, that is, on your past exposure to self-development or spiritual growth reading. If you already have strong habits of introspection, you may find the approach of the book too simple for you. (The book is more about "withdrawal" than about fear of or struggle with intimacy.) However, if you have not had much chance analyze your past, and want an approach that relies on a traditional foundation, then it book may be very useful to you.

Hiding From Love: How to Change the Withdrawal Patterns That:
Great book. This book changed my life and it will truly change yours as well. It teaches why we withdrawal within ourselves. It helps us to understand why we do and what we can do about it. Outside influences, home life growing up, our self esteem; these are all factors that contribute to why we do the things we do. This book will help you get in touch with yourself much more than you ever thought possible. You will never be the same again after reading this book. I recommend it as well as buy it for others. Enjoy!

John Townsend's book helped me come out of hiding:
Every person has a desire for intimacy. Sometimes this desire is overriden by fear. The disabling behavior I learned as a child and continued through my adult life has been identified and replaced with constructive behavior. "Hiding from Love" was key in this transformation. My fear has been replaced with empathy and a real capacity for giving and receiving love. I admire every book that comes from the "Minerith-Meier Clinics", or as they are now called, "New Life Live".

Hiding From Love: The Book that Helped Change My Life:
Hiding From Love provided me with the insight I needed to understand all the why's I had dealt with my entire life. At the age of 45 I was finally able to understand why I had felt so "unlovable", "insecure" and "stupid" as a child, that there were very valid reasons for my thinking that way about myself that were NOT MY FAULT. I began to see myself with confidence, and worthy of being loved, for the first time in my life! I would recommend this book wholeheartedly to anyone struggling with childhood abandonment issues.

Awesome book:
One of the best things about this book is that he backs up what he is saying by scripture. So you know the book is really based on the Bible. He also tells a lot of stories about other people which makes you feel as if it is not just a bunch of information being shoveled on you. I am only on chapter 4 but I have already learned so much about myself and the things that I have hidden in my life and why I have hidden them. I cannot wait to get further into the book and to start to learn how to change it!