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Title: Healing the Sexually Abused Heart
Author : Jaime J. Romo
Release Date : January 27, 2010
Genre: Self-Improvement,Books,Health, Mind & Body,Spirituality,Nonfiction,Family & Relationships,
Pages : * pages
Size : 1008 KB

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If you are a survivor of sexual abuse, this workbook is your key to a new life. Written by survivors themselves, it offers you insight and resources that can lead to your recovery and healing. If you seek to support the life-long journey of survivors, you will find here the foundation to truly make a difference. What are the stages of recovery? What can you do to reach these stages? What can you do to help others?

Therapists, survivors, those who feel betrayed by religious authorities, victims of abuse, and spiritual guides will find answers and much more in this workbook. Anyone who wishes to help end sexual abuse will benefit from this book.

At least 39 million people in the United States have experienced sexual abuse in some form. Sadly, most victims live among us with near-invisibility. Healing the Sexually Abused Heart: A Workbook for Survivors, Thrivers, and Supporters is a step forward for victims of sexual abuse, their support groups, and others impacted by abuse and neglect.

Victor Veith, executive director of the National Association to Prevent Sexual Abuse of Children says, “In eloquent, understandable prose, Dr. Romo offers a helping hand to the millions impacted by the sin of child sexual abuse.”

Victims of abuse and betrayal carry similar toxic experiences that can continue to impact mind and spirit long after the original physical abuse occurred. This workbook guides the reader through a self-questioning process that examines: What? How? So What? and Now What? What: facing the experiences that underlie the recovery process. How: understanding the actions and ways of thinking that maintain reactive ways of living. So What: learning to take responsibility for the present. Now What: creating the next steps related to healing and recreating her life.

Many mental health professionals like Paul Stretch recognize the value of this resource. “As a therapist specializing in helping survivors heal, I found Dr. Romo’s workbook extremely valuable; offering a keen sense of insightful personal testimony coupled with practical exercises, the manual offers hope to victims of sexual abuse who are ready to actively address their recovery.”

This workbook sparks important dialogues among survivors, as well as their supporters, and helps them find a pathway to successful recovery. It brings useful knowledge and experience to the aid of those suffering in the aftermath of abuse. This workbook treats the whole person by bringing the best of theory and practice to bear. Every chapter includes exercises to help readers recognize how their hearts and minds work together with respect to self-talk, responses to authority, boundaries, roles, and action-steps. Mental health professionals, survivors of sexual abuse, those who feel betrayed by authorities, spiritual guides, or anyone who wishes to help end sexual abuse will find the exercises and insights, here, key in helping victims recover from sexual abuse.

Survivors like this California survivor of clergy sexual abuse confirm the value of Healing the Sexually Abused Heart. “Whenever I sink back into a depression based on a flashback to my predator I pull out my workbook. I don’t need a specific chapter nor do I use one over and over, I pick a random spot and read enough to put my mind at ease. I always walk away with the pain gone.”