Synopses & Reviews
The decision to heal from child sexual abuse is a powerful, life-affirming choice.
This recording is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who was sexually abuse as a child -- and to those who care about her.
Ellen Bass, who has been working with survivors of child sexual abuse for over a decade, and Laura Davis, herself a survivor of child sexual abuse, weave personal experience, professional knowledge, and moving stories and reflections from other survivors, to tell the survivors how she can come to terms with her past while moving powerful into the future.
The Courage To Heal is a sustaining, life-saving recording.
Includes:
Authors' Introduction (created especially for this recording)
The Healing Process
The Decision to Heal; Remembering; Believing It Happened; Breaking Silence; Understanding That It Wasn't Your Fault; The Child Within; Anger -- The Backbone of Healing; Forgiveness?; Resolution and Moving On.
Synopsis
Professional knowledge combined with personal experience shows how women can survive the past and move confidently into the future once the abuse has been identified and faced.
About the Author
A pioneer in the field of healing from child sexual abuse, Ellen Bass currently teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University in Oregon. Her poetry books include
Mules of Love and
The Human Line.
Laura Davis is the author of The Courage to Heal Workbook, Allies in Healing, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, and I Thought We'd Never Speak Again. She teaches writing and lives with her family in Santa Cruz, California.
A pioneer in the field of healing from child sexual abuse, Ellen Bass currently teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University in Oregon. Her poetry books include Mules of Love and The Human Line.
Laura Davis is the author of The Courage to Heal Workbook, Allies in Healing, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, and I Thought We'd Never Speak Again. She teaches writing and lives with her family in Santa Cruz, California.