What others are saying about The TurnAround Mom:
This book (The TurnAround Mom) is an action plan to save your
family.
- Jack Canfield
CEO, Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises.
This is a book that deserves to be widely read and will, I'm certain, help salvage many lives and restore homes to peace and sanity with its basic message, 'You've got to raise yourself before you can raise your children.'
- George H. Gallup, Jr.
Chairman, The George H. Gallup International Institute
Tough, honest, and to the point about how to take responsibility for your life and your kids, no matter what the damage, destruction, and dysfunction in your upbringing.
- Dr. Laura Schlessinger
The Dr. Laura Radio Program
The TurnAround Mom both offers and is a model of recovery that creates the potential to end generational cycles of addiction.
- Claudia Black, Ph.D.
Author, It Will Never Happen To Me
Everyone, including therapists, should read this down-to-earth book. It deepened my recovery and I believe will touch your heart.
-John Lee, M.A.
Author Flying Boy and Growing Yourself Back Up
Every woman who reads The TurnAround Mom will find herself in it and be touched in a very special way.
- Marlene S. Lockwood
Program Director (Retired)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health
Resources and Services Administration
We are all healing. We are all in some sort of recovery. I hear people say that in spite of their best efforts, they recycle the same dysfunctional patterns of their parents. This relates to recovery from old wounds. Not just addiction recovery. I am elated that there is a resource like this. Books are usually either informative and intellectual or, 'well, this is my experience.'The TurnAround Mom is written in a way that clients will want to read; it will help them experience their emotions, and give them understandable steps to take to create change and not repeat the past.- -Kathleen E. McKinney
M.S. LPC Child, Adolescent, and Family Psychotherapist
If you are having 'one of those days', (which, if you are a parent, you are having plenty of) just pick up The TurnAround Mom and read any of Sipp's tips, insights or suggestions...you will see a window of glimmering possibility appear where only a wall of darkness or resignation loomed a minute before.
- Barbara Hannah
MCC The Entrepreneur School, Inc.
This is the best resource I have seen of its kind. It is the type of insightful and practical book I will readily recommend to my clients dealing with issues of addiction or abuse.
- The Reverend Ron Greer, Ph. D.
Pastoral Counseling
Peachtree Road United Methodist Church ( Atlanta, GA)
Carey Sipp courageously uses her story of family addiction and abuse to provide hope and direction to other parents unwilling to continue the cycle of family pain and suffering. Her vignettes and practical advice on parenting, self-care, and other day-to-day challenges will help you create
the family you wanted but never had.
- Jerry Spicer, Ph.D.
Former President, Hazelden Foundation
What the mothers at My Sister’s House say about
Carey Sipp's time with them and The TurnAround Mom:
“I am so appreciative of Carey and how she ministers to the women of My Sister’s House! It is particularly difficult for a mother to be in early recovery and learn how to balance responsibilities of motherhood. She is a shining light of hope for our clients! You are an inspiration! I hope that when I turn 50 I will be as positive as you are.”
– Terry Freeman, Program Director
"Her words hit the core issues of the heart. She explains real life things. I would love a copy of her book b/c I can relate to it. I've quoted lines from the second chapter of her book in my commitment [this is the written commitment each client makes to the community of My Sister's House and to her personal recovery]. The main thing is that she is a success. She who changed things around. She's a great role model for us in treatment. And she catches the attention of EVERY one of us. We hang on every word she says."
- Shelly
"I just like listening to her because there's so much stuff she talks about that I can relate to. Especially when she discusses her family. See, her father was an alcoholic and so was mine. Makes me say wow, there's another one out there like me."
- Erika
"It has truly been an honor and privilege to be a part of the My Sister's House community this past year. I can genuinely say that these women and "doing life" with them has taught me far more than I could hope to teach them. I suppose that is in the fabric of true relationship: mutual giving and receiving, mutual sharing and knowing. We have been blessed to have sweet Carey join our community ever few weeks to share with these women her life and her experiences. She shares her story against a backdrop of countless hugs, questions motivated by a genuine interest, and an amazing knowledge of the names of nearly every woman she meets. Carey reminds me that the realities of the heart, the desire to love, to be loved, to be protected and to be known know no social or financial distinctions. The women hang on every word of her story because they are touched by her emotion, relate to her pain, and above else are drawn to her unveiled brokenness."
- Corrie Beaver, intern
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