Healing Insights: Effects of Abuse for Adults Abused as Children - Paperback

by Jeanne McElvaney (Author)

You don't have to feel stuck, overwhelmed, and alone as you heal from your childhood abuse...

As you read the 31 insights about healing from childhood abuse, you will feel empowered.

Imagine sitting with a survivor who knows the path of healing and is sharing the information that made all the difference. You can do that with this self help book. At home, with yourself, you can find ways to move out of your past experience.

In short, insightful, encouraging segments, you will find topics that are making you feel raw, confused, and misunderstood at this time. It might be one of the following:

* Guilt

*Anger

*Tears

*Shame

*Your truth

*Courage

*Choices

*Recovery

*Memories

*Feelings

*Pain

* or why children don't tell

And, sometimes images take us to a place words can't reach. So I've included black-ink drawings that came from the depths of my determination to move beyond my abuse. Images that reflected my inner world and helped me find answers.

This book is like a flashlight shining into the shadows that followed us out of our abuse. It reveals new possibilities. It invites us to shape our future with our dreams, so we are no longer driven by responses we learned in our childhood experience.

Others have felt the power of these healing insights. Is it the perfect book for you at this time in your journey? Or an empowering gift for someone you know?

"You are a bright light on this planet." BS

"I am letting you know the part you play in encouragement and healing." RG

"Keep writing! It gives others hope." MG

"It is reassuring to know I am not alone." DF

"Your writing is so powerful." MD

"Thank you for the great work you do to help survivors heal and be heard." Gretchen Paules of LetGoLetPeaceComeIn.org

Author Biography

I have worked as a writer and advocate in the field of childhood sexual abuse for the past 23 years, focusing on research and writing in the areas of healing from trauma, spiritual growth, and personal empowerment. My advocacy work on behalf of survivors of abuse led to my development of public information events, presentations, and workshops to educate and empower survivors and professionals alike. I have authored three books for survivors, and my semi-autobiographical novel, Spirit Unbroken: Abby's Story, was a Finalist in the READERS FAVORITE AWARDS 2012 - WOMEN'S FICTION. Jeanne McElvaney