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Jenn Greenberg was abused by her church-going father. Yet she is still a Christian. In this courageous, compelling book, she reflects on how God brought life and hope in the darkest of situations. Jenn shows how the gospel enables survivors to navigate issues of guilt, forgiveness, love, and value. And she challenges church leaders to protect the vulnerable among their congregations. Her reflections offer Biblical truths and gospel hope that can help survivors of abuse as well as those who walk alongside them.

A touching short story covering the memoir of Authoress Lachel Jackson, early childhood years. It's an emotional non-fiction story. Offering insight into a few traumatic events, that took place in her life before she turned 12. Names, dates, and places have been altered, to protect the identity of others. Abuse is not always from a stranger sometimes it comes from your very own family. Sharlisha was abused daily at the hands of her grandmother, and uncle. She did not get the love, affection, or nurturing most kids received from their parents or grandparents. Sharlisha tried to get help ...

In A Child Called "It," David Pelzer shared the harrowing story of his abusive childhood. Now, his brother Richard reveals a horrifying glimpse behind closed doors -- and shares a message of strength and resilience. Mom has no one like David around to beat on anymore. I am more afraid of her...

Electroshock therapy, child abuse, and modern-day slavery... just another day in Christine's life. Take a heart-wrenching yet inspiring ride through one woman's incredible journey that is so compelling that you are simultaneously trying to look away and unable to stop yourself from listening on. Christine's father is a wealthy, tyrannical man renowned in the diamond business. At the age of just five, little Christine is cast aside into a boarding school where she is ridiculed for two embarrassing problems. She grows up in a never-ending circle of traumatic experiences.

After a life in care, with both good and bad experiences of the system, Hope knows all too well what the risks are for children in care as they approach adolescence. Lacking any sense of self-worth or belonging, children in care are often dismissed by the authorities as impossible to manage and, worse, perceived as children who have invited sexual abuse by placing themselves in 'dangerous' situations. Hope lifts the lid on this untold chapter of her story and the devastating effects she experienced when she reconnected with her past.

In Trauma Proof, Benjamin Perks argues that it must be, and that we can tackle it as a public health problem like COVID-19, by 1) making sure everyone is aware of the risk; 2) preventing transmission; and 3) opening pathways to healing. Perks shows we have the tools to make these three things happen, and the evidence to show they work.

Factitious Love is a powerful, survivor-centered guide to understanding, recognizing, and healing from one of the most insidious forms of child abuse—Munchausen by Proxy, also known as Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another. Written by Tammy Eady Walker, grandmother and author of I Have to Call Someone Mama: A Grandmother's Story of Two Siblings Rescued From Munchausen by Proxy Abuse, this book combines years of lived experience, survivor testimony, and therapeutic insight to shine a light on a form of abuse that thrives in silence.

When 15-year-old Shelly Edwards' mother is murdered by her alcoholic father, she loses her home, her family, and the only life she's ever known. Abandoned, broken from abuse and assault, facing poverty, and gripped with fear for her life, Shelly struggles to dismantle decades of lies. But into the deepening darkness that follows, God sends heavenly gifts, leading Shelly to a newfound faith. There, she finds a peace she's never thought possible. After all she's endured, can she rise from the ashes and trust God once more?

Do you feel confused, frustrated, or empty after being around your mother? Are you riddled with self-doubt, unsure of how your mother really feels about you? Do you find her reactions to your achievements or accomplishments leave you feeling like a failure? Do you feel suppressed, controlled, and like rejection is a feeling you're constantly battling with?

This is an inspiring, true story of how one woman overcame emotional and psychological damage from childhood abuse, trauma, and a sexual partner's betrayal. Melissa Roberts and John Sternfels's study on childhood abuse and its lifelong effects is a beacon of hope for those seeking to overcome trauma and to live a life with affirmation and purpose. In today's world of "safe places" and mandated reporting, social workers, teachers, and others can report stories of child abuse protections being weaponized, misused, or misapplied.

Abandoned, neglected and beaten by a mother who really did care about her but suffered from her own demons and addictions, left with friends and relatives, as well as placed in foster homes, molested and raped on more than one occasion, including by men considered upright, the little girl who grew up to become an educator, minister, and entrepreneur learned to survive by running away again and again. This heartbreaking and heartwarming story, told with courageous frankness, reveals a deep trust in God that, in the long run, promoted an unbelievable resilience, allowing a young girl, turned ...

Everyone knows the story of Jerry Sandusky, the serial pedophile, the Monster. But what if that story is wrong? What if the former Penn State football coach and founder of the Second Mile is an innocent man convicted in the midst of a moral panic fed by the sensationalistic media, police trawling, and memory-warping psychotherapy? The Most Hated Man in America unfolds like a true-crime psychological thriller and is required listening for everyone, from criminologists to sports fans.

Ever get embarrassed when your parents were showing your naked baby pictures? Well that was just cute and get over it. If your parents have naked pictures of you from a certain age on, let’s call that 12, we don’t consider that normal in our culture, especially if they look at them all the time, show them to their friends and transmit them over the internet. Transmissions over the internet of your own child’s naked images are of special import here. This book is another one of my safeguards and this one is for kids. Kids remember that humans are a sexually and emotionally immature ...

As seen on Humans of New York, Jonathan Conyers introduces us to the mentors who changed his life as a troubled teen in this "courageous and inspiring" memoir (Stephanie Foo, author of What My Bones Know). Everybody was rooting for Jonathan Conyers after his profile on Humans of New York went...

Healing is available! Its time to put assault and rape behind you. Take your life back. Move on from victim to survivor. Be free from the rape event. Rape does not have to destroy your life day after day for years and years. You can get free from the memory and pain. Freed from the continuing disease and difficulties. Healed from guilt and shame. You can take your life back and live again. I have helped people for over two decades to get free from problems that haunt them. It is time to stop being a VICTIM and start living again. There are many types of rape and assault plaguing women, ...

Best-seller du New York Times ! Avez-vous déjà réfléchi pourquoi tant de personnes, bien qu'elles soient couronnées de succès, ressentent un vide intérieur et une aliénation ? Savez-vous que les traumatismes de l'enfance peuvent avoir des effets durables sur la gestion de la colère et de la douleur refoulées ? Dans Le drame de l’enfant doué, Alice Miller, psychologue et psychanalyste renommée, explore ces questions avec une profondeur et une perspicacité remarquables. À travers ce livre, Miller examine les conséquences des abus subis durant l'enfance et comment ces expériences façonnent notre vie adulte.

‘I’m going to love my baby and give her lots of attention,’ Jade said. ‘I’ll show my mum she’s wrong.’ Jade, 17, is pregnant, homeless and alone when she’s brought to live with Cathy. Jade is desperate to keep her baby, but little more than a child herself, she struggles with the...

From the daughter of the bestselling author of Father Joe: the poignant and ultimately hopeful memoir of a young girl’s struggle to live a normal childhood in the chaotic seventies, and to overcome sexual abuse by her famous father Earlier this year, Tony Hendra’s memoir, Father Joe: The Man...

‘The Grip of Childhood Sexual Abuse’ tells the story of our healing journey to overcome the impacts of our abuse. Tragically victims unknowingly accrue many syndromes and disorders as a direct result of enduring sexual abuse over a long period of time. We believe we can help victims by sharing what we've learned. Through recognizing our own strengths, we can encourage others to shed the self-limiting beliefs trauma survivors often unconsciously own.

Ward of the State: A Memoir of Foster Care tells what happened to a little Black boy from the inner city of Detroit. This is the story of Karlos Dillard, who was severely neglected by his mother, who often left him and his siblings at home alone for weeks to fend for themselves. Enduring severe neglect and abuse, the boy was removed by the State of Michigan and put into foster care. Karlos was removed from his mother's care just to end up in foster homes that treated him worse. Karlos was told he was not loved, he was not wanted, and he was nothing but a ward of the state.