Healing Assault

Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault provides a comprehensive overview of how to offer yoga to survivors of sexual assault in a safe, effective, evidence-based, and healing way. Zahabiyah A. Yamasaki, founder of Transcending Sexual Trauma through Yoga, draws on the framework of trauma-informed care and trauma-informed yoga program development and curriculum, while also weaving in personal narrative and inspiring survivor stories. 

Sexual assault is an invasive event of traumatic evil. You were victimized, and now you are suffering. Whenever sexual abuse occurs, love is not part of the equation. Rather, the perpetrator uses power, domination, and control to injure innocent victims. In CCEFs Sexual Assault: Healing Steps for Victims, David Powlison gently leads those who have been wounded sexually to a deeper relationship with God—beyond the pain—with biblical action steps.

Beloved Bible teacher and ministry leader Joyce Meyer shares the unforgettable story of her troubled upbringing, her call to ministry, and God’s healing hand upon her life in this boldly honest and moving memoir. “I feel it’s necessary to disclose certain details of my story so readers can...

In this book, Jenny duBay helps survivors of intimate partner violence identify their situation and begin to heal. With empathy and compassion, she covers such topics as what domestic abuse is, the trauma of sexual assault and coercion, verbal attacks and isolation, and the evils of manipulative control within intimate relationships. She also discusses details on what the Catholic Church teaches about personal dignity, sacramental marriages, and the nature of domestic abuse. Jenny reveals the impact intimate abuse has on targets, providing practical and Christ-centered ways to heal—no ...

“Many a reader longing for a sense of homecoming in the realm of romantic fantasy will find it in A Strange and Stubborn Endurance.”—Jacqueline Carey "...the heart of the audiobook is Velasin's journey toward recovery and learning to trust his new husband."- AudioFile on A Strange and...

Do you feel trapped in an invisible battle, where every step toward spiritual growth is met with relentless resistance? Are you tired of the same patterns of defeat, fear, and confusion plaguing your life, family, and faith? It's time to expose the darkness and turn the tables on the enemy! In “The Devil’s Playbook Exposed: Strategies to Disarm Satan’s Attacks,” discover the hidden schemes the enemy doesn’t want you to know. This powerful, eye-opening guide pulls back the curtain on the devil’s most cunning tactics and reveals how you, as a child of God, can disrupt his ...

From bestselling author Lisa Graff, this important coming-of-age story follows a thirteen-year-old with a mysterious scar on her face—and a big secret she feels pressured to keep. Fallon Little has a secret—and it’s not how she got the enormous scar that divides her face in two...

From one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, an essential manifesto for reimagining justice for survivors of sexual trauma. “An extraordinary book ...Beautiful, profound, and important.” —New York Times The #MeToo movement brought worldwide attention to sexual violence, but...

A necessary, reassuring guide for all sexual assault survivors in need of immediate emotional and legal support post assault, and in the months and years after. We Are the Evidence is the first comprehensive resource for survivors of sexual assault. Written with conviction and compassion by...

Nobody Asked... But I Remember spans seven decades of a life lived mostly in silence: a childhood in the remote Canadian north with a schizophrenic father and a mother who survived everything but said nothing; a rape at seventeen that she carried alone for fifty years; a series of jobs, houses, and relationships that taught her the art of adaptation; and a fifty-six year marriage to a man she spent decades trying to provoke into noticing her — before finally understanding that his stillness was its own kind of love. Told with sharp wit, unflinching honesty, and the hard-won clarity of a ...

Amada maestra bíblica y líder ministerial Joyce Meyer comparte la inolvidable historia de su infancia difícil, su llamado al ministerio y la mano sanadora de Dios sobre su vida en estas memorias audazmente honestas y conmovedoras. “Creo que es necesario revelar ciertos detalles de mi...

2016 Bronze Winner Readers' Favorite (NonFiction) 5/5 Stars Readers' Favorite Review Winner 2015 Best of Books, IndieReader (NonFiction) 2015 Honorable Mention Winner Los Angeles Book Festival 2015 Honorable Mention Winner San Francisco Book Festival Award-winning author Rachel Thompson courageously confronts the topics of sexual abuse and suicide, love and healing, in her second nonfiction book of prose: Broken Places. The sequel to Rachel's first award-winning, best-selling nonfiction book, Broken Pieces, Rachel bares her soul in essays, poems, and prose, addressing life's most difficult ...

Everything changed with the click of a shutter… the difference between life and death. Frankie Taylor has issues. Alcoholism, infidelity, and a divorce have plunged him into a pit so deep, he can see only one way out. But his scheme to end it all unravels after an odd chain of events involving a digital camera. Thwarted and bewildered, Frankie begins to reassemble the pieces of his carefully dismantled life. And God shows up… Cara Alexander is a teen intent on storming into adulthood. Her parents watch helplessly as their rebellious daughter slips away, leaving them reeling after ...

Lana's missing! Crazy with fear, her billionaire father unleashes an army of searchers, including an elite band of bodyguards, who rankle townsfolk with their heavy-handed tactics. Tempers flare as they desperately seek the shapely blonde water-skiing champion, last seen in a white bikini. The small town of Muscadine, Alabama, will never be the same, and neither will the Claypool family. The searchers push hard, but the town pushes back equally hard, in ways not seen for a generation. Find out what happens when the bullets fly. Scroll up and get it now with just one click!

At once a cold case investigation and self-help memoir, The Trauma Monster follows retired trauma therapist Barb Dorrington as she investigates the unsolved 1968 murder of her childhood friend, Scott Leishman. She meets many survivors during her search for clues. Their stories of abduction, sexual assault, and home invasion are terrifying, but they also serve as catharsis for those who have kept their stories secret for far too long.

Long before the #MeToo movement, Rachel Thompson started sharing what it was like to grow up and live with the constant trauma of childhood sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and other sexual crimes in her award-winning memoirs, Broken Pieces and Broken Places. Broken People is the third book in this series, where she continues to explore, through hard-hitting essays and lyrical poetry, the difficulties and joys of navigating relationships, healing, and love in an environment not always conducive to survivors. If you're a survivor or know one, you need this book. I write what scares me. I ...

A Powerful Sexual Assault Recovery Book for Survivors Ready to Heal, Reclaim, and Thrive Sexual assault does not end when the moment is over. For many survivors, the impact lingers—in the body, the mind, and the memories that surface when least expected. Shame, self-blame, fear, and silence can make healing feel distant or even impossible. But healing is possible. In Who Says You Can’t Heal?, registered nurse, survivor advocate, and trauma-informed educator Marie McKenzie offers compassionate, practical guidance for survivors ready to move beyond surviving and begin reclaiming their ...

A violence prevention expert helps targets of gender-based violence discern fact from fiction around what keeps us safe and support social change Personal safety shouldn’t mean living in fear, nor should it come at the expense of political progress. Questionable advice to avoid violence, like...

Most books about trauma end at healing. What Happens After You Heal? begins there. If you have done the therapy, the journaling, the hard work — and you still feel like something is missing — this book was written for you. There is a moment many survivors reach that nobody prepares them for. The crisis has passed. The healing has taken root. And yet they find themselves standing in an unfamiliar quiet, asking a question that can feel both hopeful and terrifying: Now what? This is the transition most trauma resources never address — the journey from surviving and healing into actually ...

In this extraordinary novel, a forty-year-old woman journeys to her cultural homeland—and uncovers a harrowing secret that makes her rethink everything she thought she knew about her mother. "An unforgettable story about mothers, daughters, and sisters reaching inward for solace and strength...