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The Best Kept Secret of Family Crisis: When Adult Children Turn Away
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ISBN13: 9798246693384
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 3 2026
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 3 2026
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Best Kept Secret of Family Crisis
When Adult Children Turn Away
By Rev. Dr. Geffry Tate
What happens when the family crisis no one talks about becomes your reality?
Across churches, communities, and families, countless parents suffer in silence-grieving the emotional, spiritual, and relational loss of adult children who have turned away. This pain is often misunderstood, minimized, or hidden behind shame. Yet it is real, profound, and deeply wounding.
When Adult Children Turn Away
By Rev. Dr. Geffry Tate
What happens when the family crisis no one talks about becomes your reality?
Across churches, communities, and families, countless parents suffer in silence-grieving the emotional, spiritual, and relational loss of adult children who have turned away. This pain is often misunderstood, minimized, or hidden behind shame. Yet it is real, profound, and deeply wounding.
The Best Kept Secret of Family Crisis brings this unspoken struggle into the light.
Drawing from decades of pastoral experience, counseling, and lived observation, Rev. Dr. Geffry Tate addresses a rarely discussed reality: parents who are emotionally, verbally, or relationally wounded by their adult children. With compassion, clarity, and faith-centered insight, this book offers understanding, validation, and a path forward.
This is not a book of blame.
It is a book of truth, healing, and restoration.
In this book, you will discover:
Written with pastoral sensitivity and grounded faith, The Best Kept Secret of Family Crisis reassures readers that they are not alone-and that healing is possible, even when reconciliation feels distant.
This book does not promise easy answers.
It offers something better: truth, compassion, and a way forward.
Drawing from decades of pastoral experience, counseling, and lived observation, Rev. Dr. Geffry Tate addresses a rarely discussed reality: parents who are emotionally, verbally, or relationally wounded by their adult children. With compassion, clarity, and faith-centered insight, this book offers understanding, validation, and a path forward.
This is not a book of blame.
It is a book of truth, healing, and restoration.
In this book, you will discover:
- Why estrangement and rejection by adult children are more common than we admit
- How faith, guilt, and silence often keep parents trapped in pain
- Biblical insight for navigating grief, boundaries, and forgiveness
- How to regain emotional and spiritual stability without abandoning love
- Practical guidance for families, churches, and support groups facing this crisis
- Parents grieving the loss of a relationship with an adult child
- Pastors, counselors, and ministry leaders
- Support groups and church classes
- Families seeking understanding and healing
- Anyone walking through silent family heartbreak
Written with pastoral sensitivity and grounded faith, The Best Kept Secret of Family Crisis reassures readers that they are not alone-and that healing is possible, even when reconciliation feels distant.
This book does not promise easy answers.
It offers something better: truth, compassion, and a way forward.
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