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If your kids aren’t learning about sex from you, what are they learning about sex, and who is teaching them? Having "the talk" with your child does not have to be a terrifying and awkward event. Armed with The Sex-Wise Parent, Dr. Janet Rosenzweig’s groundbreaking book, you may find you never have to have "the talk". Dr. Rosenzweig shows you how you can help protect your children from sexual abuse, trauma, and bullying through your everyday interaction with them.

The effects of abuse on a child can cause long-term, often hidden heartache to that child, especially as they travel through adulthood. Acting out, bad decisions, and constant flashbacks take the child on a road that includes confusion, secrets, and the inability to understand adult relationships. Living through the mental trauma of covet abuse is difficult, and may take a lifetime to overcome. Join the author, as she shares how therapy helped her discover the unusual form of child abuse that she’d suffered, and how she rediscovered a sense of normalcy.

Breakthrough Treatment Offers New Hope for Recovery # Gentling represents a new paradigm in the therapeutic approach to children who have experienced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and have acquired Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result. This text redefines PTSD in child abuse survivors by identifying child-specific behavioral signs commonly seen, and offers a means to individualize treatment and measure therapeutic outcomes through understanding each suffering child's unique symptom profile. The practical and easily understood Gentling approaches and techniques can be easily ...

Sexual abuse of children is becoming epidemic in our society. Children are being abused in alarming numbers. Things have to change. We have to find ways to keep our children safe and clean up the moral air we breath. • Why do we see only the "tip of this iceberg" right now? • What is the "pornographication" of society? How bad is it really? • What is the impact of abuse on those who are molested? • What are the consequences of failing to protect children? Get answers to these questions and more in Why all the Fuss?

Holding onto a secret/s is something that everyone in life has experienced. However, the longer you hang onto that secret/s the heavier and more burdensome it becomes. Not to mention the health risks both mentally and physically that can become compromised by not disclosing the secret. The following story reveals a secret that I have held onto for many years of my life. Writing my story has long been overdue as my secret has consumed and overwhelmed me for far too many years. It is a powerful tool to be able to address and confront head on what has been locked up in my head for so long. It ...

Mickey is an eight year old boy who has experienced much loss in his life. He has lived in several foster homes. When his current family can no longer cope with his behavior, Mickey returns to shelter care. His imaginary friend, Captain Duffy, helps him heal from the trauma in his life. Though Captain Duffy and the Kid Who Threw Eggs is a children's story written at 4th grade reading level, it is a bibliotherapeutic story best shared between adults and children. It is a story that evokes emotion as Mickey heals from the losses in his life. There are discussion questions at the end of each ...

"I’m going to be so happy now, just wait and see.” But I left the altar where I met Jesus and walked back into the same patterns of behavior in my life. Indeed he set me free, but it took a long journey down a lighted path before freedom became my reality. Born into abject poverty then adopted into an alcoholic family, by the time she reached 33 her life was shattered. She was alone, broke, rejected again, desperate, out of hope and done with life.

While most kids are served home-cooked dinners and tucked in with bedtime stories at night, Mary Zoe never knows which version of her mother, Zodie, to expect. She might be dressed to the nines, rhapsodizing about a more luxurious way of life, or she might be strewn naked on the floor, slumped into unconsciousness by drugs and alcohol. But either way, Mary Zoe has known from an early age that she wants a better life.

Wandering Spark is a gripping, emotional, self-reflecting pause-resister that explores the depths of our human spirit, demonstrating our past struggles can be a catalyst to bring out the best in ourselves. At only four years old, Kyle Robinson’s life changes dramatically—a man he calls Big Bad Ben, or Triple B becomes his stepfather. Over the next decade, Kyle and his siblings live in terror daily, trying anything to escape his physical and emotional abuse.

The third of a nonfiction trilogy, this intrepid memoir tracks sexual harassment and sexual abuse in the life of a veteran American journalist. It also describes the long and ultimately successful psychotherapy the author undertook to heal.

Brad spends his days swinging a hammer and his weekend nights pouring drinks just to keep his nose clean. At only 21, he's already had enough trouble to last him a lifetime. But when he realizes the boy upstairs has new injuries that coincide with loud shouting matches from that apartment, he knows he has to do something to help.

Growing up in an environment unsure of anything is stressful. Being unaware, but knowing at the same time something doesn’t feel right, is uncomfortable. You know the saying “what goes on in this house stays in this house”. But what actually goes on in this house? Who do you call? What do you say? Do I love her enough to endure this with her?Does she love me enough to let go? If love is the key that unlocks the heart, then where is the key that prevents death?

This is a story of how one little girl, at the age of five, became boisterous and bold in the face of abuse. She stood up against it and was determined that she would win over it. It's a story of how her connection with God gave her the strength that she would need to be a survivor and a conqueror.

Tavares Entertainment, LLC. has published and released a powerful and eye-opening novel by Gary G. Tavares. It is entitled “Predator of the Diamond: The Boston Red Sox Youth Molestation Story.” Gary is a Screenwriter, Playwright, Author, Poet, Publisher, Filmmaker and Speaker. This novel is based on actual events. The events occurred in Winter Haven, Florida, between 1971 and 1991. The Boston Red Sox had their spring training facility there at that time. The facility was called the Chain of Lakes ballpark. There was a Caucasian man named Donald Fitzpatrick who worked in the organization...

This haunting yet wry coming-of-age memoir set at an all-girls summer camp fast-forwards decades into the future as Barbara Graham grapples with the knowledge that the "love affair" she believed she'd shared with her female camp counselor in the 1960s fits every definition of sexual abuse. The book will appeal to anyone who has experienced a betrayal of trust or conflated love and abuse.

This book is about the dilemma of forgiveness I had to face when my 86-year-old mom lay on her death bed. How to forgive or not forgive a family member that's dying. My real-life short story of what I chose to do. Let me give you a hint. It has something to do with relief.

Poems from a Broken Child takes you inside the feelings that an abused child feels. It will let you into a dark world that the child feels! It is a collection of poems that the writer has written to express the world that she experienced. It also includes the writer views of the poems,

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 ...

From a prizewinning journalist, Mary Carter Bishop, a moving and beautifully rendered memoir about the half-brother she didn’t know existed that hauntingly explores family, class, secrets, and fate. Applying for a passport as an adult, Mary Carter Bishop made a shocking discovery. She had a...

For 18 years of my life, I dealt with harm daily. I suffered over 40 years with a substantial assortment of trauma-related manifestations. The devastation of the problems began when I was a child and lasted until I was in my mid-40s. I know my story sounds bleak but don’t be discouraged. Peace, laughter, joy, and happiness eventually came my way.