The Courage to Heal
A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
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Narrated by:
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Ellen Bass
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Laura Davis
About this listen
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.
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- Chade Kalyan Mckoy
- 21-08-24
I think for me this book is an essential read. sometimes a difficult read and uncomfortable. I would definitely recommend it
its very long but useful so you don't want to miss it or have a story untold. so not sure I would change it.
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- Dave
- 05-09-20
Absolutely brilliant
I didn't think that anything could help me understand what I was going through. I thought that everything was my fault and I was the bad person. Listening to other people's stories, how what happened to them and how it affected their life and relationship with their partner and family, opened my eyes that the person to blame for everything was my abuser.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has been sexually abused. I have seen psychiatrists and been to help groups but they didn't work. This book should be classed as the BIBLE for survivors of abuse.
I give this book 10 out of 10 for content, understanding how to help yourself to heal from your ordeal.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-03-23
Absolute Must Read!
I’ve listened to several books on sexual trauma and this is my number one recommendation! This book helped me when I was in my emergency stage (and didn’t even know that I was in that stage and that it had a name) and I didn’t know if I was making myself worse working on healing my trauma. This book helped me understand that I am doing great and the book assessed every angle possible on this topic. I’m so grateful for this book, it is the holy grail for mapping all the underlying information and structure that truly helps the courage to go heal and trust that it is worth it and that you can do it. Thank you!!!
Sarah
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- Sarah
- 22-11-24
Too many graphic descriptions of abuse
while it was helpful to learn about other people's struggles with the long term impact of childhood abuse, the litany of graphic descriptions were totally unnecessary and re-traumatizing. I was also very concerned about the author's view, that if you think you were abused, even if you can't remember it, you probably were. I'm not sure this is correct or appropriate advice. I could get through the whole book 😑
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