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Book List - Heal yourself from abuse

"The quality of self equals the quality of life." - Rachel Hutchings

• I AM WOMAN: A Native Perspective On Sociology and Feminism
  by Lee Maracle
  ISBN 0-88974-059-3
  
  
  
• Breaking Free: A Self-Help Guide for Adults who were sexually abused as children
  by Carolyn Ainscough and Kay Toon
  ISBN 1555610579

• Haunted Memories: Healing the Pain of Childhood Abuse
  by Perry L. Draper
  ISBN

• The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
  by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
  ISBN 0-06-096931-8
  "This book advances the empowerment of survivors another major step - from breaking the silence to sharing recovery." - Judith Herman, M.D., Author of Father-Daughter Incest   Book includes resource guide.

• Reach for the Rainbow: Advanced healing for survivors of sexual abuse
  by Lynne D. Finney
  ISBN 096258830X

• Toxic Parents: Overcoming their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
  by Dr. Susan Forward
  ISBN 0553057006
  "Adult children of toxic parents obviously have more than their share of anger.   Perhaps not so obvious is the fact that they also have more than their share of grief."
  - Dr. Susan Forward

• Becoming Whole Again: Help for Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
  by Dr. Vera Gallagher
  ISBN 0830676570
  "Speaking from my long years of experience, I do not believe that you are emotionally sick or emotionally disturbed.  I believe that your early childhood conditioning and education were disastrous and have resulted in disastrous life problems.  I believe further that the early childhood conditioning and education can be changed.  With that the symptoms that appear as emotional illness will simply drop off." - Dr. Vera Gallagher

• Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and about Adults Abused as Children
  by Eliana Gil
  ISBN 0440500060

• The Path of Transformation: How Healing Ourselves Can Change the World
  by Shakti Gawain
  ISBN 1882591151

• Emotional Intelligence
  by Daniel Goleman
  ISBN
  What is "emotional intelligence"?  It involves self-awareness, management of feelings, motivation, empathy and social skill.

• Broken Boys / Mending Men: Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse
  by Stephen D. Grubman-Black
  ISBN

• Speaking Our Truth: Voices of Courage And Healing for Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
  by Neal King, Foreword by Thomas Moore
  ISBN 0-06-095058-7
  "In Speaking Our Truth, male survivors will find the recognition and compassion that they have been looking for and the real hope for healing that they need.   The book concludes with a list of resources and features a section of drawings by survivor/artist Charlie Wolfe." - HarperCollins Publishers

• The Invisible Wound: A New Approach to Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
  by Wayne Kritsberg
  ISBN 0553089846

• Victims No Longer: Men Recovering From Incest and Other Sexual Abuse
  by Mike Lew, Foreward by Ellen Bass, coauthor of The Courage to Heal
  ISBN 0-06-097300-5
  "Victims No Longer will give courage to the generations of men who have not yet dared to face their memories of painful and lost childhoods, and hope to those who have begun to break their silence." - Fay Honey Knopp, Safer Society Program

• Confronting the Victim Role: Healing from an Abusive Childhood
  by Barry McCarthy
  

• Secrets in the Family: Transforming the Shame and Hurt into Openness and Love
  by Jack Murney
  ISBN 0-8092-4410-1
  "This book offers the support and advice families require to learn how to talk about their fears, erase the stigmas, and work toward unity." - Contemporary Books

• The Quest for Personal Power: Transforming Stress into Strength
  by Phil Nuernberger
  ISBN
  • We weren't born fearful, self-critical, or lonely.
  • We are most natural when we are relaxed and focused.
  • The more fearful we are, the more unbalanced we become, and the more stress we experience.
  • The dragons of the mind are powerful and persistent, but you are stronger and more powerful.
    - Phil Nuernberger

• Strong At The Broken Places: Overcoming the Trauma of Childhood Abuse
  by Linda T. Sanford
  ISBN 0-380-71535-X
  "The world breaks everyone and afterward some are strong at the broken places." -  Ernest Hemingway  Farewell to Arms

• She Who Was Lost is Remembered: Healing From Incest Through Creativity
  edited by Louise M. Wisechild
  ISBN 1-878067-09-5
  "Bravo! This book makes me happy.  To grab your own darkness and howl with it carries us a long way into the light.  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you.   This is an important book."  - Natalie Goldberg, author of Wild Mind

• Real Rape, Real Pain: Help For Women Sexually Assaulted by Male Partners
  by Patricia Easteal and Louise McOrmond-Plummer
  http://www.partnerrapebook.org

Fiction

Touching Spirit Bear
by Ben Mikaelsen
ISBN 0-380-97744-3

 

"What you believe is more important than what you possess.
What you live is more lasting than what you profess.
Whom you inspire is more significant than whom you impress."
-- William Arthur Ward

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