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Originally published in 1991, The Sexual Healing Journey is a highly respected resource for understanding and healing the intimate sexual problems caused by sex abuse. In this third edition, renowned author, psychotherapist, and certified sex therapist Wendy Maltz keeps this classic recovery book fresh with revised materials and a new preface. Compassionate and enduring, this guide presents a comprehensive program for healing that combines expert...
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Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Through the voices of twelve diverse writers, Whatever Gets You Through offers a powerful look at the narrative of sexual assault not covered by the headlines--the weeks, months, and years of survival and adaptation that people live through in its aftermath. With a foreword by Jessica Valenti, an extensive introduction by editors Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee, and contributions from acclaimed literary voices such as Alicia Elliott, Elisabeth...
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"Growing up the eldest daughter in a large, highly controlled, fundamentalist Christian household, Jessica Willis was groomed to perform, and to conform to her father's disturbing and chaotic teachings. Cut off from anything unapproved by her father, Jessica was persistently curious about the outside world, always wondering what was normal or potentially dangerous about her upbringing. When the Willis family rocketed into fame after their appearances...
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After a failed suicide attempt, 28-year-old Kennedy Logan uses writing as her therapy and keeps a daily journal detailing the circumstances that led to her depression, including her relationship with Drake Collins, her overprotective mother, her search for her biological mother and her absentee father
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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This controversial and daring film from director Lynne Stopkewich (Kissed, The L Word) focuses on a young, married woman who seduces the faceless men that pass through her stifling world. Feeding her growing desire to test the waters between emotional pleasure and pain, she dives deeper into her own unrealized darkness, uncertain whether she will survive the Suspicious river.
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2017.
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"Two missing girls. Thirteen years apart. Olivia Shaw has been missing since last Tuesday. She was last seen outside the entrance of her elementary school in Hunts Point wearing a white spring jacket, blue jeans, and pink boots. I force myself to look at the face in the photo, into her slightly smudged features, and I can't bring myself to move. Olivia Shaw could be my mirror image, rewound to thirteen years ago. If you have any knowledge of Olivia...
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The first book written specifically for men, Victims No Longer examines the changing cultural attitudes toward male survivors of incest and other sexual trauma. Now, in this second edition, this invaluable resource continues to offer compassionate and practical advice, supported by personal anecdotes and statements of male survivors. Victims No Longer helps survivors to:
- Identify and validate their childhood experiences
- Explore strategies of...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"The literature says that 30% to 40% of the patients who engage in eating disorder behaviors are, in fact, survivors of sexual trauma, and I believe another whole cohort of those folks have experienced other kinds of trauma. If you think about it, being 90 pounds or being 300 pounds is a very visible, tangible way to say, 'I'm in pain.'" Lisa Ferentz. Until recently, the focus of eating disorder treatment has been on getting the sometimes life-threatening...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Grief, trauma and sexual abuse: The stories of two women' is a strong reminder of the experiences of victims of sexual assault and the impact on their lives. These two stories will evoke strong emotions, raise awareness and increase the consciousness of these crimes for all who view this video. The courage of these two women will contribute greatly to a broader community understanding of issues that are often hidden, and draw attention to the support...
13) What we did
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"In a sleepy college town, a woman who was sexually abused as a child must face her traumatic past and protect her family when her abuser appears in town and forces his way back into her life"--
14) Noah's rights
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Living in the hood, urban author Olivia befriends Noah, an underprivileged foster kid whose issues force Olivia to wrangle her own demons.
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Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The #MeToo movement brought worldwide attention to sexual violence, but while the media focused on the fates of a few notorious predators who were put on trial, we heard far less about the outcomes of those trials for the survivors of their abuse. The conventional retributive process fails to serve most survivors; it was never designed for them. Renowned trauma expert Judith L. Herman argues that the first step toward a better form of justice is...
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Christmas is coming to Blue Moon Harbor, a cozy dot in the Pacific Northwest where love shines bright...
Bookseller Iris Yakimura grew up on Destiny Island and it's the only place where her painful shyness doesn't cripple her. An avid romance reader, she believes that one day the right man will come along-one who loves her just the way she is. She never imagines that man will arrive in time for the holidays, like a gift. Or that he'll be a celebrity...
19) Such sharp teeth
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Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"A young woman in need of a transformation finds herself in touch with the animal inside in this gripping, incisive novel from the author of Cackle and The Return. Rory Morris isn't thrilled to be moving back to her hometown, even if it is temporary. There are bad memories there. But her twin sister, Scarlett, is pregnant, estranged from the baby's father, and needs support, so Rory returns to the place she thought she'd put in her rearview. After...
20) Phoenix
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"A threat. A ghost from the past. A murder. And two tortured souls who find solace in each other. Ex-Navy SEAL Leif Ramsey--known as Phoenix--has fallen hard for spitfire Kelly Taylor, but the first order of business is to protect her from whoever is sending her threatening texts. Her tormentor has upped the ante with a message Leif can't bear to show Kelly, but when he finally does...Kelly knows exactly who sent it--a person she thought had disappeared...
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