Download or read book Silent Abuse Invisible Scars written by Arianna Chiusano and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arianna Chiusano was born and raised in an upper-class family on Long Island. She was the youngest of the family and had always admired the fact that her parents were still married and still in love, while most of her friends had divorced parents. Arianna had always dreamed that one day she would marry and have the ideal marriage like her parents, a marriage filled with respect and adoration. After graduating college, she married the man of her dreams but quickly realized he would soon become her worst nightmare. After years of enduring abuse at the hands of her so-called "prince," somehow she found the strength to leave. This is her story about reclaiming her life and moving forward.
Download or read book Wounded by Words written by Susan Titus Osborn and published by New Hope Publishers (AL). This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wounded by Words, the authors explore how emotional abusers isolate, disorient, and indoctrinate their victims and how their unkind words leave lasting scars.
Download or read book Invisible Scars written by Catharine Dowda and published by New Horizon Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During these harrowing times of social and economic turbulence, romantic relationships are often prone to issues of control and power plays between two partners. Perhaps one makes more money than the other, feels as though he or she does more around the house in terms of chores and duties or carries the emotional load of the relationship more than his or her partner. Otherwise resolvable problems such as these can be, in many cases, catalysts for a form of abuse that might not leave the victim with any visible cuts and bruises but is damaging and hurtful.
Download or read book Silent Scars written by Obii Barah and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping novel, follow Sophie's journey as she navigates the complexities of domestic violence and the legal system. After years of suffering in silence, Sophie finally finds the courage to leave her abusive partner, Michael. But the road to recovery is far from easy as she confronts the trauma of her past and faces the challenges of rebuilding her life. As Sophie seeks justice against her abuser, she finds strength in her support system, including a local support group for survivors of domestic violence and a therapist who helps her work through her trauma. But even with the support of loved ones and professionals, Sophie still struggles with the lasting effects of violence on her mental and emotional health. Through the highs and lows of her journey, Sophie learns valuable lessons about the importance of seeking help and support when dealing with the aftermath of violence. This powerful story sheds light on the complexities of domestic violence and the strength and resilience of survivors.
Download or read book Healing Invisible Wounds written by Richard F. Mollica and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these personal reflections on his thirty years of clinical work with victims of genocide, torture, and abuse in the United States, Cambodia, Bosnia, and other parts of the world, Richard Mollica describes the surprising capacity of traumatized people to heal themselves. Here is how Neil Boothby, Director of the Program on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, describes the book: "Mollica provides a wealth of ethnographic and clinical evidence that suggests the human capacity to heal is innate--that the 'survival instinct' extends beyond the physical to include the psychological as well. He enables us to see how recovery from 'traumatic life events' needs to be viewed primarily as a 'mystery' to be listened to and explored, rather than solely as a 'problem' to be identified and solved. Healing involves a quest for meaning--with all of its emotional, cultural, religious, spiritual and existential attendants--even when bio-chemical reactions are also operative." Healing Invisible Wounds reveals how trauma survivors, through the telling of their stories, teach all of us how to deal with the tragic events of everyday life. Mollica's important discovery that humiliation--an instrument of violence that also leads to anger and despair--can be transformed through his therapeutic project into solace and redemption is a remarkable new contribution to survivors and clinicians. This book reveals how in every society we have to move away from viewing trauma survivors as "broken people" and "outcasts" to seeing them as courageous people actively contributing to larger social goals. When violence occurs, there is damage not only to individuals but to entire societies, and to the world. Through the journey of self-healing that survivors make, they enable the rest of us not only as individuals but as entire communities to recover from injury in a violent world.
Download or read book The Survivor s Voice written by Kathy Manis Findley and published by Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, more than 3.2 million abused children were reported to protective service agencies. In these pages are the intimate voices are the survivors of the anguish of domestic violence and sexual abuse in the home -- the place that should be a haven of safety.
Download or read book Healing Spiritual Abuse written by Ken M. Blue and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 1993-09-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asserting that spiritual abuse in the church is more common than we realize, Ken Blue examines the causes of spiritual abuse, identifies abusive patterns, offers healing to those who have suffered abuse and describes how leaders should model the gospel of grace.
Download or read book Encouragement For Those Who Suffer In Silence written by Rev. Dr. LaRuth E. Lockhart and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of us, at times, encounter heartache, death, challenges, failures, disappointments, and other trials. How do you overcome these difficulties? Do you hold onto your hidden and silent issues? At what moment will you no longer internalize your doubts and fears, your failures and unforgiveness, your pain and brokenness? Holding onto painful problems indefinitely will not add value or meaning to your life. In Encouragement for Those Who Suffer in Silence, author Rev. Dr. LaRuth E. Lockhart addresses common issues often held in secret by many, challenges that can cause you to become broken and to suffer in silence. She communicates that you can’t receive comfort until you face and admit what ails you. You must let go and let God have control of every aspect of your life. He’s the God of all healing, comfort, and restoration. Using her personal experience of suffering silently, and with the word of God as her source, Dr. LaRuth encourages you to give voice to the silent issues that bind you and to graciously receive healing for your pain and restoration through Jesus Christ the savior.
Download or read book One Voice written by Crystal White and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crystal is the fight for her life. Every day is hell for this frightened young child. Crystal had escaped from the torture and her abusive childhood. She always kept her abusive childhood a secret as well as the abuser's secret. Crystal remained silent. Until now! Crystal conquered the demons of her childhood, which is filled with evil. One voice is all it would take to bring attention to the hidden secrets out of the darkness in an abyss. Faith in God and the encouragement from her guardian angel, Mikheal. Mikheal tells Crystal, her power is her own voice. Be the voice to other children in an abusive situation. Crystal paved a staircase leading from the depths of hell into a brighter life, a brighter future. Crystal's voice started out as whimper, and now it is a shout. Crystal's secrets about her childhood are no longer surrounded in silence, no longer keeping the secrets of her abusers. Crystal desires to encourage, comfort, and empower abused children, telling them their lives are worth it even with ounce of every tear shed. Every scar that remains sealed into their hearts will only give them strength to begin a wonderful future, a future that will define their self-worth, their faith and soul. Building a life with love, kindness, and joy, every child deserves a beautiful life. Abused children should honor their passion of dignity, pride, and integrity. Life is a challenge, yet it will be a triumph to slam the door and lock it from continuing the cycle of abuse or circle of abuse. As adults, we have the power and control to stop the cycle of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Crystal starts a new chapter in her life. She wants to represent and be a voice to the unspoken voice of abused children. It begins with one voice.
Download or read book Enough Silence written by Cheryl Miller and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how restorative justice can offer healing to survivors of sexual abuse in your faith community Clara was five years old the first time she was raped by her father. The trauma stifled Clara’s self-esteem, ability to trust others, and emotional regulation well into adulthood. But after an encounter with a repentant man who had committed the same crime against his own daughter—through a guided victim-offender dialogue—Clara was finally able to breathe. In Enough Silence, Cheryl Miller draws on more than two decades working with survivors of abuse to create the composite character of Clara. Her story represents countless real people in our faith communities living with a personal history of sexual trauma. Clara’s story illustrates how restorative justice practices—implemented with care—can transform the lives of survivors. These practices include • holding offenders accountable, • lending direct voice to survivors, offenders, and members of the community, • taking into account all those with stakes in incidents of sexual abuse, • clarifying the organization’s values, and • establishing a safe and structured environment for survivors. She also offers a road map for implementing victim-offender dialogue, surrogate dialogue, circles, and more. Enough Silence issues a call to pastors, clergy, nonprofit professionals, and other leaders to dismantle patriarchal systems that perpetuate rape culture. By embracing restorative justice practices, faith communities can imitate Christ in ministering to survivors and those who love them.
Download or read book Doctoral Students Identities and Emotional Wellbeing in Applied Linguistics written by Bedrettin Yazan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume comprises an insightful collection of international autoethnographies from doctoral candidates in the field of applied linguistics, narrating and analyzing their student experiences to problematize and challenge the dominant and oppressive cultures of academia. Through 12 select contributions, the book examines the intersection of identity work and emotional labor in the doctoral student journey, sharing insights into the potential of autoethnography for self-reflection, community building, and healing in doctoral studies. Contributors examine their doctoral journeys through personal narratives and testimonials to understand their own experiences, agency, identity, and emotions, encouraging current or former doctoral students to engage in the critical reflection of their own experiences. Chapters are divided into four themes: interrelating multiple identities, navigating and negotiating in-betweenness, engaging emotions and wellbeing, and establishing support systems. Offering unique perspectives from a global spread of Ph.D. candidates, this book will be highly relevant reading for researchers and prospective or current doctoral students of applied linguistics, language education, TESOL, and LOTE. It will also be of interest to those interested in higher education, dissertation research, and autoethnography as a method.
Download or read book Healing the Scars of Emotional Abuse written by Gregory L. Jantz PhD and published by Revell. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This helpful guide reveals how those who have been emotionally abused can overcome the past and rebuild their self-image.
Download or read book Breaking the Silence written by and published by Word Association Publishers. This book was released on with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women s Artistic Gymnastics written by Roslyn Kerr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lifts the lid on the high pressured, complex world of women’s artistic gymnastics. By adopting a socio-cultural lens incorporating historical, sociological and psychological perspectives, it takes the reader through the story and workings of women’s artistic gymnastics. Beginning with its early history as a ‘feminine appropriate’ sport, the book follows the sport through its transition to a modern sports form. Including global cases and innovative narrative methods, it explores the way gymnasts have experienced its intense challenges, the complexities of the coach-athlete relationship, and how others involved in the sport, such as parents and medical personnel, have contributed to the reproduction of a highly demanding and potentially abusive sporting culture. With the focus on a unique women’s sport, the book is an important read for researchers and students studying sport sociology, sport coaching, and physical education, but it is also a valuable resource for anyone interested in the development of sporting talent.
Download or read book Justice Not Silence written by Ezra Chitando and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors of this volume highlight the fact that although the Church often stands up for other public issues such as human rights, democratic political rights, economic justice, etc., sexual and gender-based violence do not receive the attention they deserve. There are no theological or cultural arguments that can justify such a position. Sexual and gender-based violence are a scourge that defies our Christian understanding of human dignity ? and challenges the Church in all its formations to respond. ÿAlthough most of the case studies are from Zimbabwe, they challenge us regardless of which country we are living in ? or the tradition of our specific denomination.ÿ In the context of Southern Africa, where the HIV and AIDS burden is among the highest in the world, sexual and gender-based violence are a major contributor to the spread of the disease. This will only change if the Church challenges this practice as part of its educational and public work ? in theological institutions, in congregations, but also in its pastoral work within families.ÿ
Download or read book Invisible Scars written by Julie White and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-01-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Invisible Scars: Understanding and Healing the Wounds of Childhood Abuse" is a powerful and compassionate guide to understanding and healing the wounds of childhood abuse. Written by a survivor of abuse, this book offers a safe and supportive space for readers to explore their own experiences and begin the journey towards healing.Through a mix of personal stories, expert insights, and practical exercises, readers will: Learn how to identify the signs of abuse Understand the long-term effects of abuse on the mind and body Develop coping strategies to manage the pain and trauma of their past. The book also covers important topics such as self-care, seeking support, and finding hope for the future. With its compassionate and understanding approach, "Invisible Scars" is an essential resource for anyone who has experienced childhood abuse and is ready to start healing their invisible scars. Whether you are a survivor yourself or know someone who is, this book will provide the tools and support you need to start your journey towards healing and hope.
Download or read book How EMDR Therapy Transformed My Life written by Marie Pflugrad and published by TEACH Services, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) therapy has been successfully used for the past thirty years for those who have suffered PTSD in the military. Recently it has been recognized as a useful therapy for other forms of trauma. For the author of this book, it was a lifesaving means of reprocessing painful experiences from her upbringing that continued to affect her life. Because “hurt people hurt people,” Marie Pflugrad tells her story of pain and relief through EMDR to demonstrate how the past can be the past and not a shadow darkening the present.
