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The effects of narcissistic abuse on a fragile psyche are real and lifelong. Sensitive hearts raised by toxic minds are gripped by insidious spiritual wounds, invisible, but obvious. Earn Your Luck is an inside look into the mental framework of a codependent and the energetic patterns of an empath, braiding the two with the intent to draw a picture for its listeners that though someone else's narcissistic disorder at one time was our poison, it may now (to the codependent empaths of the world) be our immunity to its lasting effects.

Desiring to bring hope and healing to other victims, these men and women — survivors as well as their community of family and friends — come together to speak out about their abuse and betrayal by Catholic priests and leaders. These are only a few stories — but through these few are related the experiences of many victims. Contrary to conventional wisdom, these men and women are still active, practicing Catholics who love their faith. The abusers may have stolen their innocence, but through God’s grace, they weren’t able to steal their faith.

Despite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not an epidemic. An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women is historical and political, bounded by oppression and colonial violence. This book, like all of Sarah Deer's work, is aimed at engaging the problem head-on - and ending it. The Beginning and End of Rape collects and expands the powerful writings in which Deer has advocated for cultural and legal reforms to protect Native women from endemic sexual violence and abuse.