Healing my Life: From Incest to Joy

Healing my Life: From Incest to Joy

Author: Donna Jensen

Publisher: Off the Common Books

Published: 2019-06-17

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13:

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In chronicling the physical and spiritual steps she took to reclaim her life and peel away the layers of damage done by incest, Jenson has written a powerful narrative of one person’s healing journey. And though the subject matter is deeply serious, Jenson writes with her sense of humor firmly intact, reminding us that joy is possible in the face of great pain. Poignant, brave, and helpful, Healing My Life offers a much-needed testimony for anyone affected by or concerned about childhood sexual abuse. “Healing My Life is a story that is unique and personal in its detail, yet also universal and human in its impact. If we could raise even one generation without violence or shaming, we have no idea what might be possible.” —Gloria Steinem “What an accomplishment! Taking the raw pain of incest, Donna Jenson has offered the world a generous dose of hope and delivered a clear message to survivors: healing is possible. Everyone who has survived childhood sexual abuse is stronger knowing each other’s journey. By eloquently sharing hers, Donna reminds us of a simple truth: we can heal.” —Marilyn Vanderbur, Miss America 1958 who survived incest


Healing My Life from Incest to Joy

Healing My Life from Incest to Joy

Author: Donna Jenson

Publisher:

Published: 2017-10

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781945473241

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¿This wise and unflinchingly honest portrayal of one woman¿s journey recovering from the betrayal of incest lifts the reader with an inspiring perspective of hope, determination and joy. Jenson¿s story shows how she came to understand that true healing is ultimately a step-by-step process of growth, lasting a lifetime. The clarity she finally gained by learning to ask at each turning point, ¿is this step healthy and healing for me?¿ will resonate deeply for anyone who has undertaken a similar journey of recovery.¿Peter Pollard Area Director for SNAP (Survivor Network of those Abused by Priests) and a man who survived Priest abuse


Fortunate Daughter

Fortunate Daughter

Author: Rosie McMahan

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-04-13

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1647420253

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Rosie’s sins were never difficult to recall; they lined themselves up like baby ducks in her mind’s eye. Her confession to Father Hart one day in 1974 went like this: “I didn’t finish all my chores. I stole the Halloween candy my mom hid in the pantry. And I let my Daddy touch my private places.” Though it begins as an all-too-common story of childhood sexual abuse, Fortunate Daughter gradually becomes a rare story of how one person heals from that early trauma. In this intimate first-person narrative, Rosie McMahan offers the reader a portrait of misery, abuse, and hurt, followed by the difficult and painful task of healing—a journey that, in the end, reveals the complicated and nuanced venture of true reconciliation and the freedom that comes along with it.


Healing the Wounded Heart

Healing the Wounded Heart

Author: Dan B. Allender

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2016-02-23

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1493401513

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First published in 1989, Dan Allender's The Wounded Heart has helped hundreds of thousands of people come to terms with sexual abuse in their past. Now, more than twenty-five years later, Allender has written a brand-new book on the subject that takes into account recent discoveries about the lasting physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual ramifications of sexual abuse. With great compassion Allender offers hope for victims of rape, date rape, incest, molestation, sexting, sexual bullying, unwanted advances, pornography, and more, exposing the raw wounds that are left behind and clearing the path toward wholeness and healing. Never minimizing victims' pain or offering pat spiritual answers that don't truly address the problem, he instead calls evil evil and lights the way to renewed joy. Counselors, pastors, and friends of those who have suffered sexual harm will find in this book the deep spiritual guidance they need to effectively minister to the sexually broken around them. Victims themselves will find here a sympathetic friend to walk alongside them on the road to healing.


The Rescued Soul

The Rescued Soul

Author: Christina Enevoldsen

Publisher:

Published: 2014-12-15

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9780692342916

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There is no greater isolation a child can suffer than that of incest.Without healing, that sense of isolation follows the survivor into adulthood. Abuse sabotages the relationship with yourself and every other relationship in your life. * Do you feel as though you don't belong?* Do you work for validation but feel unworthy of it?* Are you in an abusive relationships with yourself?* Do you fear emotional intimacy?* Do you crave deep connections but always feel alone?Enevoldsen's inspiring message is that you don't have to live with the effects of sexual abuse. Combining candid personal stories with action steps to heal, Enevoldsen uses the tool of writing to show you how to move through your pain of abandonment and betrayal to heal your life.The Rescued Soul:* Healing guide* Workbook* 365 day journal with healing insights for encouragement, inspiration and hope Here's what others are saying:"In The Rescued Soul, Christina Enevoldsen shares her extensive comprehension of what it means to face and overcome sexual abuse, gently guiding the reader through the process of reconnection on the journey back to self. A wonderful resource on the healing journey!" Darlene Ouimet author of Emerging from Broken: The Beginning of Hope for Emotional Healing "Christina Enevoldsen will take you into the depths of what healing from abuse truly requires. If you are brave enough to take this journey with her, I am certain you will emerge more alive and whole then you ever imagined possible. I know what her writing has done for my life, and I invite you to allow that level of transformation into your own as well." Kylie Slavik, Survivor & Author of Recovering the Spirit from Sexual Trauma


Repair Your Life

Repair Your Life

Author: Margie McKinnon

Publisher: Loving Healing Press

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1932690522

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McKinnon presents a six-stage program for abuse survivors that helps them recognize and accept their adult problems stemming from childhood sexual abuse, and to process issues with tools and techniques to regain a healthy life.


Incest and Sexuality

Incest and Sexuality

Author: Wendy Maltz

Publisher: Free Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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Describes the psychological damage done by incest, discusses treatment therapies, and tells how to help incest victims develop normal adult attitudes towards sex.


REPAIR Your Life

REPAIR Your Life

Author: Margie McKinnon

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781615992737

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R.E.P.A.I.R. is a Six-Stage Program for abuse survivors that will transform your life forever Recognize and accept your adult problems stemming from childhood sexual abuse. Enter into a commitment to transform your life. Process your issues with tools and techniques that will enable you to become healthy. Awareness to discover reality as you gather and assemble the pieces of the broken puzzle your life became. Insight into the complete picture helps you begin to return to what you were prior to being sexually violated. Rhythm recovers the natural rhythm you had before the incest happened, the blueprint that is the essence of your true nature, becoming who you really are. Therapists' Acclaim for REPAIR Your Life "REPAIR Your Life is one of several significant books by a woman who writes openly and perceptively, using her own experiences to take us down her path to an ultimately fulfilling life. This is an important book." --Vincent J. Felitti, MD, co-principal investigator of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study "Thank you Marjorie and God bless you for adapting this program for our survivors to follow. You have given survivors hope to continue on their healing journey." --Donna Gustafson, Executive Director, Sunrise Center Against Sexual Abuse "This program just has to work, because whether intuitively or through research, Marjorie McKinnon has assembled a highly effective program of recovery." --Bob Rich, PhD, psychologist Special editions also available for teenagers, children 6-12, and toddlers. www.TheLampLighters.org for more information or to find a support group in your area.


Your Soul's Gift

Your Soul's Gift

Author: Robert Schwartz

Publisher: Whispering Winds Press

Published: 2012-04-11

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0977679462

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In his groundbreaking first book, Your Soul's Plan, Robert Schwartz brought the idea of pre-birth planning into the mainstream. Now, his brilliant sequel Your Soul's Gift delves even deeper by exploring the pre-birth planning of spiritual awakening, miscarriage and abortion, caregiving, abusive relationships, sexuality, incest, adoption, poverty, suicide, rape, and mental illness. Working with a team of gifted mediums, Schwartz brings forth great love and wisdom from the other side to explain why such experiences are planned and the deep, soul-level healing they can create. Through the stories in Your Soul s Gift you can: -Develop greater self-love as you become aware of the tremendous courage it takes for you to plan a life on Earth and to live the life you planned -Emerge from victim consciousness to know yourself as the powerful creator of your life -Forgive those who have hurt you and create a lasting inner peace -Understand the qualities you came into this lifetime to cultivate and express -See profound purpose in experiences that once appeared to be meaningless suffering -Develop a heartfelt knowing of your infinite worth, beauty, magnificence, and sacredness as an eternal soul.


My Pain is My Power

My Pain is My Power

Author: Tanisha Bankston

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-07-04

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13:

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This book is written from my heart. My life changed before it began at the age of 5 or 6 years old when I was raped by a friend of the family, and I wasn't believed. This caused me to go into a shell and lose my inner voice. I was instantly overtaken with fear of what had happened to me. The damage done to me caused me to have to relearn how to walk. I continued to experience pain from an early age before I could enjoy life. This book allows me the opportunity to talk to you about being taken away from my mother and being separated from my siblings; how I endured so much pain, shame, fear, self-doubt, and a lot of confusion; dreaming of being that little girl growing up playing with Barbie dolls and one day being a model, and how that didn't happen for me. I endured so much pain from my childhood to my adulthood. I pray my book reaches every person who is reading it and it touches you like it has touched me. I can now speak and share my story about all the pain that I endured as a child on up into my adulthood. I could not have done any of this without God. I prayed and asked God to heal me, and He did. I lost my inner voice at the age of 5 years old. I found my inner voice at the age of 32 years old. I endured so much pain for 27 years. God delivered me from my pain on September 4, 2020. I found God. My Pain is My Power. I am using my voice to help and empower so many women and children like myself. I pray that you all be well and blessed and that my book touched you. God uses His weakest people and molds us into becoming His strongest people. Even though Fear was instilled in me as a child, I choose Faith over Fear. I survived and came out the other side.