Laura Davis (1)

This book is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who was sexually abused as a child - those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible.The authors weave personal experience with professional knowledge to show the reader how she can come to terms with her past while moving powerfully into the future. This book provides clear explanations, practical suggestions, a map of the healing journey, and many moving first-person examples of the recovery process drawn from their interviews with hundreds of survivors. Selected Reading Questionnaire.… (mais)

Thank you to Loves To Read and Book Trib for this book.

Quite an emotional roller coaster with her early childhood molestation by her grandfather that her mother denied, her up and down relationship with her mother (Temme) and the care of her through the years, especially when she had dementia. I don't know how people go through this but there are plenty who do so. Her mother Temme was quite the force and I loved and hated her at the same time. Laura was a saint and she did it all herself with pleas to her brother Paul to help. Thank G-d she had her wife Karyn who was always there to help and be there for her and her kids.

I had the tissues ready and I needed them. The only forewarning and I was not prepared for was the cremation that she and her brother watched until the end. Not my thing and it will never be.… (mais)

When I worked through this book in 1997 or 1998 it was difficult going, but I thought that my ability to manage the PTSD symptoms was evidence that my work was done.

Not so.

Now that we have documentation of the various stages of survivor work (thanks to Herman's [b:Trauma and Recovery|542700|Trauma and Recovery|Judith Lewis Herman|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348664543s/542700.jpg|530025] which I only just found recently), I must admit the correctness of the one or two therapists who argued that working until you drop is effectively avoiding the work of recovery. So I cannot say whether I actually worked through this book correctly, only that I gave it a half-hearted try, and found it useful to some extent.
ShiraDest
31.10.12015 HE today, read back in 1997, 11997 HE… (mais)

When I worked through this book in 1997 or 1998 it was difficult going, but I thought that my ability to manage the PTSD symptoms was evidence that my work was done.

Not so.

Now that we have documentation of the various stages of survivor work (thanks to Herman's [b:Trauma and Recovery|542700|Trauma and Recovery|Judith Lewis Herman|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348664543s/542700.jpg|530025] which I only just found recently), I must admit the correctness of the one or two therapists who argued that working until you drop is effectively avoiding the work of recovery. So I cannot say whether I actually worked through this book correctly, only that I gave it a half-hearted try, and found it useful to some extent.
ShiraDest
31.10.12015 HE today, read back in 1997, 11997 HE… (mais)