Many of us go through life making choices that we think are our choices, but they are not. They are choices that we have been conditioned to make. So when we decide not to speak to someone, we think it is our choice. We do not realize that we have been influenced by someone else, by some toxic belief system that we hold, or by some toxic environment we grew up in.

Broken Families is aimed at empowering you, not the toxic person who has a noose on your neck, to solve your problems and live your life in a purposeful way. This is very important because it takes a lot of financial, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energy to reach your goals, so you have to run with those people who nurture you, not drain you.

The main message in this book is that in order to deal with toxic people, you have to change, not them, and live with no resentment.

No matter how people have treated you in the past, if you live with resentment and pain, you are adding to the toxicity that you have been trying to run away from. There are no justified resentments in life. You have to let go of resentments. If you carry around resentments inside you, about anything or about anyone, those resentments will end up harming you. They will create a sense of despair in you.

The book ends with practical tools that can help you to move from toxic relationships with family members and friends to a truly purposeful and successful life.