Wisdom to Know the Difference. This book addresses in detail these commonCore Issues in Relationships, Recovery and Living,—how they come about and choices andsolutions to use them to your advantage, healand experience peace. • Needing to be in control• Diculty trusting• Diculty being real• How to handle feelings• Low self-esteem (shame)• Dependence versus Independence• Fear of abandonment• All-or-none thinking and behaving• High tolerance for inappropriate behavior• Over-responsibility for others• Neglecting my own needs• Grieving my ungrieved hurts, losses and traumas• Diculty resolving conict• Diculty giving and receiving love Based on over 35-years of clinical experienceassisting people with addictions, trauma survivorsand people with various problems in living, Dr.Whiteld describes how to identify and handleeach core issue. Dr. Whitfield lives and practices in Atlanta, GA. He hasbeen voted by his peers, since 1993, as one of the BestDoctors in America, and has been a guest researcherand consultant at the CDC since 1998.