What To Do About Sue?; A Karmic Journey from Brainwashing to Healing

Title: What To Do About Sue?;  A Karmic Journey from Brainwashing to Healing  

Author: Sukhavaha devi (Susan Bauer)

Publisher:  Susan Bauer

Publication Date: 2022

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Pages: 349

"What to Do About Sue?" (full subtitle in some editions: What to Do About Sue: A Karmic Journey from Brainwashing to Healing) is a memoir and reflective guide written by Sukhavaha Devi Dasi (also known as Sukhavaha Mataji or Susan Bauer), an initiated disciple of Srila Prabhupada in ISKCON.

The book is a deeply personal autobiography focusing on Sukhavaha's early life experiences, particularly her involvement in a cult-like or high-control group during her youth (around age 22), her subsequent deprogramming process, and the profound karmic and emotional healing that followed. The title's "Sue" refers to her given name (Susan/Sue Bauer) before initiation, symbolizing her past self or the "problem" of unresolved trauma, conditioning, and suffering she had to confront.
Key themes include:

The challenges of breaking free from manipulative or brainwashing influences (likely a non-ISKCON spiritual or personal group in her pre-devotional phase).
Emotional healing through compassion, self-inquiry, and awareness of inner mechanisms (mind, ego, body).
Integrating Krishna conscious principles (bhakti, Holy Name, surrender) with practical tools like compassionate communication (inspired by non-violent communication) to transform suffering into growth.
Overcoming depression, hopelessness, envy, uncertainty, and other anarthas (unwanted tendencies) by turning them into opportunities for spiritual progress.
A devotional lens on karma, healing, and awakening to one's true nature as the soul.

It's described as a "comprehensive guide" that uses her story to offer practical insights for readers facing life's toughest struggles—symbolized by the acronym SUE (possibly standing for Suffering, Uncertainty, Envy, or similar emotional/spiritual challenges, based on promotional descriptions).