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Survivors of sexual assault are often faced with PTSD, depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts and substance abuse. Jacquelyn Weis, a Holistic Healer and sexual abuse survivor, understands the shame-plagued brokenness that results. She also knows what it's like to be on the other side of true healing to move forward freely in life with love and compassion. Healing the Survivors is an inspirational, guided journey through forgiveness, connection, spirituality,...
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First published in 1988, the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse has been completely revised, updated, and expanded for its 20th Anniversary edition. Considered "a classic" and "the bible of healing from child sexual abuse," this inspiring, comprehensive and compassionate guide provides a map of support of the healing journey and a lifeline for millions. Weaving together personal experience with professional...
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"The crucial skills taught in this book will help children to protect their bodies from inappropriate touch. Children will be empowered to say in a strong and clear voice, "This is my body! What I say goes!" Through age-appropriate illustrations and engaging text this book, written by the author of 'No Means No!' and 'Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept', will teach children the following crucial and empowering skills in personal body safety: - identifying...
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"Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood and activism against injustice, this topic-driven board book offers clear, concrete language and imagery to introduce the concept of consent. This book serves to normalize and celebrate the experience of asking for and being asked for permission to do something involving one's body. It centers on respect for bodily autonomy, and reviews the many ways that one can say or indicate "no." The backmatter...
12) Stranger danger
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Explains why it is necessary to be careful around strangers and offers advice on ways to stay safe.
13) The color purple
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"Set in the deep American south between the wars, this is the classic tale of Celie, a young poor black girl. Raped repeatedly by her father, she loses two children and then is married off to a man who treats her no better than a slave. She is separated from her sister Nettie and dreams of becoming like the glamorous Shug Avery, a singer and rebellious black woman who has taken charge of her own destiny. Gradually Celie discovers the support of women...
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"A French memoir in the age of #metoo. A literary sensation, Vanessa Springora's Consent weaves her personal narrative of a relationship during her childhood with a famous, much older writer into a stunning and forceful indictment of the literary world that allowed sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked"--
Thirty years ago, Springora was the teenage muse of one of the France's most celebrated writers. Here she offers her perspective of their relationship:...
15) Fade
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Using her ability to tap into other people's dreams, eighteen-year-old Janie investigates an alleged sex ring at her high school that involves teachers using the date rape drug on students.
17) Glow
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"Free. I'm finally out from under Midas's thumb, but there are consequences when you kill a king. The other monarchs are coming for me. With Slade Ravinger by my side, I have to learn to control my power. Because so long as I live in this world, I won't be used again. So I will fight for him, and he will kill for me, and if we need to, we will become the villains."
18) Livia Lone
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Seattle PD sex-crimes detective Livia Lone knows the monsters she hunts. Sold by her Thai parents along with her little sister, Nason; marooned in America; abused by the men who trafficked them ... the only thing that kept Livia alive as a teenager was her determination to find Nason.
19) Hand of God
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More than 10,000 children have reportedly been sexually abused by Catholic priests in the United States in recent decades. Filmmaker Joe Cultrera tells the personal story of how his brother Paul was molested in the 1960s by Father Joseph Birmingham, reported to have abused nearly 100 other children. Paul Cultrera kept his secret for 30 years before confronting the church and starting his own investigation into how the Archdiocese of Boston covered...
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