The Courage to Heal

A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

De: Ellen Bass, Laura Davis

Narrado por: Ellen Bass, Laura Davis

Come to terms with your past while moving powerfully into the future

The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and a map of the healing journey to every woman who was sexually abused as a child—and to those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible.

Weaving together personal experience with professional knowledge, the authors provide clear explanations, practical suggestions, and support throughout the healing process. Readers will feel recognized and encouraged by hundreds of moving first-person stories drawn from interviews and the authors' extensive work with survivors, both nationally and internationally.

This completely revised and updated 20th anniversary edition continues to provide the compassionate wisdom the book has been famous for, as well as many new features:

• Contemporary research on trauma and the brain
• An overview of powerful new healing tools such as imagery, meditation, and body-centered practices
• Additional stories that reflect an even greater diversity of survivor experiences
• The reassuring accounts of survivors who have been healing for more than twenty years
• The most comprehensive, up-to-date resource guide in the field
• Insights from the authors' decades of experience

Cherished by survivors, and recommended by therapists and institutions everywhere, The Courage to Heal has often been called the bible of healing from child sexual abuse. This new edition will continue to serve as the healing beacon it has always been.

Helpful in general, but explicit accounts of abuse

I wish there had been warnings before the book went into first person accounts of rape and molestation. I would have glossed over them right now, because its too much to hear. Its upsetting to start hearing accounts of child molestation before you can get to Audible and fast forward, or to fast forward farther along in the account to some other explicit and overwhelming detail.

more about personal stories than point blank info

too many poems and personal stories
otherwise a good book.I would have liked to hear more information with out deriving it from first hand accounts.

Powerful healing book

This is the book it took me the longest to read because it was triggering and I needed tome to stabilize but it was worth my time.

Healing like no other

The stories and strategies contained in this book are a true gift to heal the heaviest pain and shame.

A must read for all survivors

I found this to be a great book for healing and processing trauma. There are great writing exercises for further processing. Also, I enjoyed hearing different personal life experiences from survivors. Very well done.