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A comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who was sexually abused as a child, proving that healing is possible. Weaving together personal experience with professional knowledge, the authors provide explanations, suggestions, and support throughout the healing process. The book contains first-person stories drawn from interviews and the authors' work with survivors. An overview of healing tools such as imagery, meditation,...
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"Michelle Knight-now known as Lily Rose Lee-captured the world's attention in May 2013, when she and two fellow kidnapping victims were found and freed after being held for more than a decade by notorious Cleveland kidnapped Ariel Castro. But many people are still asking: What happened after her escape? How do you re-enter society after years of abuse and isolation? How do you get past the trauma and live a happy and joy filled life? How do you learn...
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Drawing on the latest research on memory and traumatic experience, Susan Clancy, an expert in experimental psychopathology, demonstrates that children describe abuse and molestation encounters in ways that don't fit the conventional trauma model. In fact, the most common feeling reported is not fear but confusion.
Clancy calls for an honest look at sexual abuse and its aftermath, and argues that the reactions of society and the healing professions...
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In spite of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, many women are still afraid to say no to unwanted sexual advances and reluctant to report sexual violations. Far too many college students are being raped and are afraid to report it. Women are subjected to sexual harassment, sexual bullying, and sexual pressure every day on the street, at work, and at home but are unable to speak truth to power or to report these sexual offenses. This book is written...
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"The scars of sexual trauma exist not only in the mind, but also in the body. Drawing on the powerful mind-body techniques of somatic therapy, therapist Erika Shershun gives readers who've experienced sexual trauma a step-by-step guide to overcoming shame and stigma in the mind, bringing a newly felt sense of safety, awareness, and life to the body"--
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"Author, pastor, and survivor Dawn Scott Jones candidly shares her own abuse experience to help husbands understand the varied emotions, fears, distorted thoughts, and triggers that hold their wives captive. In practical and accessible language, Jones explains the stages of the healing journey (processing denial, asking for help, grieving, expressing anger, learning to forgive, and finding resolution). Building on that knowledge, Jones then moves...
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"Is it possible to become stronger and more beautiful after brokenness? How can we recover after being hurt or suffering abuse? What choices can help us transition from feeling like a victim to reclaiming our purpose and empowering our potential?Author and speaker Cathy Studer shares the steps she followed as she moved through her own pain of carrying shame, low self-worth, and humiliation after suffering six years of childhood sexual abuse. She...
9) Reclaiming pleasure: a sex positive guide for moving past sexual trauma & living a passionate life
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Go beyond surviving to reclaim your sexual self.
If you have experienced sexual abuse, assault, harassment, or rape, you may feel disconnected from your sexual self-even if you've overcome the initial trauma of your experience. You are a survivor; but surviving is just the beginning. This book explores what comes next.
Written by a psychologist and grounded in cutting-edge research, Reclaiming Pleasure picks up where other sexual trauma recovery books...
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A new edition of the 1988 classic text that exposed the extreme prevalence of rape in America, coining the term acquaintance rape and establishing the disturbing statistics on sexual assault that still hold just as true today-now featuring an original preface from Gloria Steinem, a new introduction by Salamishah Tillet, an updated afterword by Mary P. Koss, PH.D., as well as an updated resources section.
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Mucho se ha escrito en los últimos tiempos acerca de los abusos sexuales a menores en la Iglesia. Sin embargo, apenas se habla de los casos de abusos sexuales a adultos, a los que se les presupone, por su mayoría de edad, el pleno consentimiento. Pero todos los adultos somos susceptibles de ser vulnerables cuando nos situamos en una relación de asimetría, como puede ser la del acompañamiento espiritual, párroco-feligrés/feligresa, superior/a-hermano/a...
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One out of every two women in the United States experience sexual assault. Underreporting, victim blaming, and societal shaming mean the actual rate is even higher. But you are not a statistic. You are a survivor. This book is for you.
Sex abuse survivor Alreen Haeggquist shares her deeply personal story of childhood abuse and the steps she's taken to overcome the long-lasting effects. She leads women who have experienced sexual violence to reclaim...
13) Codependency Workbook: 7 Steps to Break Free From People Pleasing, Fear of Abandonment, Jealousy, An
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7 Steps to Break Free from the Chains of Codependency Once and for All Do you feel like you could never be independent?Are you tired of feeling like you can't say no in your relationships?Do you want to stop putting others before yourself? You're not alone. You want to be in a healthy, fulfilling relationship, but you don't know how to stop sabotaging yourself. It's not your fault that you don't know how to have better relationships. After all, no...
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"The Secret Lies Within in an inside-out look at the trauma and pain so many people experience in this lifetime and how breaking the silence is the first step to freedom. Many people experience trauma or pain and keep it to themselves, letting it become a secret that holds them captive. They live with pain, blame, and shame, unsure of what to do or how to break free. The secrets grow, causing people to become increasingly silent while they hope and...
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Using the written word as her witness statement, Jessica Willis Fisher gives a lacerating portrait of a girl finding her voice after years of being silenced and an unforgettable story of risk and faith.
Growing up the eldest daughter in a large, highly controlled, fundamentalist Christian household, Jessica Willis was groomed to perform, and to conform to her father's disturbing and chaotic teachings. Cut off from anything
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Originally Published in 1992. A second edition was published in 1993 entitled, Paperdolls: A True Story of Childhood Sexual Abuse in Mormon Neighborhoods.
As Carol Scott writes in the epilogue for Paperdolls & Cowboy Boots:, "THE SUCCESS OF PAPERDOLLS over the years is an indication to April and me of how hungry many people are for true accounts of child abuse. We expected to receive declamations that our story was too bizarre to be true, but...
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Some people will spend years, decades, a lifetime even, trying to seek peace and fulfillment and never achieve it. That is the sad reality of a fallen world.
Most recently, the subject of child sexual abuse, more notably child sex trafficking, has come to light publicly in a big way. But what about those children who have not been taken and sold into sex slavery; children who suffer sexual abuse from someone they know? When it comes to domestic child...
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¿Te trata mal y continúas con esa persona a pesar de todo?
¿Siempre acabas tolerando más de lo deseable?
Te quedas o Te quieres hace un recorrido por las circunstancias vitales, las creencias mentales y sociales, y las consecuencias que provocan estar en una relación insana. Hace un recorrido De la Oscuridad a la luz, para que acabes de abrir los ojos y puedas salir con fortaleza de ese caos en el que se ha podido convertir tu vida.
Tomar la...
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"This book is a call to action for all women who are looking to find "hope in a hopeless world and bravery in an age that seems to lack it," by a woman who has navigated loss, trauma, abuse, faith shifts, and deep pain and come out the other side still hopeful."--
20) Game Changer
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Game Changer allows anyone to overcome the erroneous credit reporting mistakes of the past and correct them. Bad credit? No credit? Game Changer is loaded with knowledgeable, easy-to-follow advice no matter where someone is in their financial journey. It's time to stop being the victim of a low credit score, Ebony Washington exposes the naked truth of credit repair secrets.
By using the methods modeled from certified credit repair specialists and...
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