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The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who, was sexually abused as a child — and those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible. The authors weave personal experience with professional knowledge to show the reader how she can come to terms with her past while moving powerfully into the future. They provide clear explanations, practical suggestions, a map of the healing journey, and many moving first-person examples of the recovery process drawn from their interviews with hundreds of survivors.
Definitive in scope, The Courage to Heal speaks directly to the survivor in a warm and personal way:
TAKING STOCK -- outlines the effects of child sexual abuse and the ways women cope over time.
THE HEALING PROCESS -- explores each stage from the decision to heal and remembering through breaking silence, knowing it wasn't your fault, nurturing the inner child, and grief and anger, to resolution and moving on.
CHANGING PATTERNS -- offers in-depth guidance for shifting self-defeating patterns in specific areas of one's present life, including self-esteem, feelings, intimacy, sexuality, and dealing with families.
SUPPORTERS OF SURVIVORS -- provides insight and strategies for partners of survivors, family members, and counselors.
COURAGEOUS WOMEN -- profiles survivors who share the challenges and triumphs of their own healing journeys.
HONORING THE TRUTH -- a substantial new Afterword that refutes the "false memory" argument and presents a thorough and enlightening response to the backlash.
RESOURCE GUIDE -- fully updated for this edition — informs readers about therapy, healing activities, recommended reading, support groups, self-help programs, and services and organizations.
Synopsis:
The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who was sexually abused as a child - and those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible. The authors weave personal experience with professional knowledge to show the reader how she can come to terms with her past while moving powerfully into the future. They provide clear explanations, practical suggestions, a map of the healing journey, and many moving first-person examples of the recovery process drawn from their interviews with hundreds of survivors.
Description:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 535-587) and index.
A workshop facilitator for survivors, their partners, and counselors, Ellen Bass is co-editor of I Never Told Anyone and the author of several volumes of poetry. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.
ffrack1964, May 16, 2007 (view all comments by ffrack1964)
i think that this book although as a survior it is hard to deal with the subject of past abuse i think that ellen bass and co author cover the abuse issues in a informative and sensitive way
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zezethex, December 16, 2006 (view all comments by zezethex)
The most comprehensive book I've read for all stages of healing from childhood sexual abuse. This book is geared mostly toward women, but this does not diminish its usefulness for healing. Personally, I found it to be immensely helpful in my own journey.
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chrishughes11, December 3, 2006 (view all comments by chrishughes11)
I am not sure that I read the "3rd" edition, but I will tell you that I bought and read this book my last part of college, thinking that it would make me "feel comforted" about my experience as a sexual abuse victim. I was abused for years by a step-parent. It started to really impact my life when I started having relationships of my own. I bought "The Courage to Heal" looking for somewhere to start for healing. All it did was make me feel more... nauseaus. I don't need to hear other victims stories, especially not those in this book. I was looking for comfort and affirmation that I was O.K. and that I was strong. Not guilt over the fact that I was never actually vaginally raped by him. It made me feel, especially with the stories at the back, that I had nothing to complain about.
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"Synopsis"
by Libri,
The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who was sexually abused as a child - and those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible. The authors weave personal experience with professional knowledge to show the reader how she can come to terms with her past while moving powerfully into the future. They provide clear explanations, practical suggestions, a map of the healing journey, and many moving first-person examples of the recovery process drawn from their interviews with hundreds of survivors.
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