About the Book

Come to terms with your past while moving powerfully into the future

"The Courage to Heal" is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and a map of the healing journey to every woman who was sexually abused as a child--and to those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible.

Weaving together personal experience with professional knowledge, the authors provide clear explanations, practical suggestions, and support throughout the healing process. Readers will feel recognized and encouraged by hundreds of moving first-person stories drawn from interviews and the authors' extensive work with survivors, both nationally and internationally.

This completely revised and updated 20th anniversary edition continues to provide the compassionate wisdom the book has been famous for, as well as many new features:

Contemporary research on trauma and the brain

An overview of powerful new healing tools such as imagery, meditation, and body-centered practices

Additional stories that reflect an even greater diversity of survivor experiences

The reassuring accounts of survivors who have been healing for more than twenty years

The most comprehensive, up-to-date resource guide in the field

Insights from the authors' decades of experience

Cherished by survivors, and recommended by therapists and institutions everywhere, "The Courage to Heal" has often been called the bible of healing from child sexual abuse. This new edition will continue to serve as the healing beacon it has always been.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 606 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Collins Living

Edition: 4

ISBN-10: 0061284335

Publication Date: Nov. 1st, 2008

ISBN-13: 9780061284335

Dimensions: 7.32 x 9.22 x 1.27 inches

Shipping Weight: 2.03 lbs

• Categories: Self Help General Abuse