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Praed's first book, Multiple Sclerosis Q & A: Reassuring Answers to Frequently Asked Questions, was a best seller on Amazon. My Freedom from Abuse, her third book, was developed to help women prepare an escape plan that will allow them to successfully escape their abusers and to give abused women the tools to help them recover.

The Parkland school shooting was the most avoidable mass murder in American history. And the policies that made it inevitable have spread to your school....

Hurtful criticism. Nasty "jokes". Angry outbursts for seemingly no reason. Verbal attacks toward your innocent comments. Stone-cold silent treatment. Manipulative actions to ensure you don't know if you're coming or going. Sound familiar? The phrase to summarize the above abhorrent treatment is narcissistic rage. The words "narcissistic" and "rage" are bad enough by themselves. When you merge them together, it becomes a force to be reckoned with; a volatile tornado that can emotionally destroy anything that dares enter its path.

Many books have dealt with sexual abuse scandals in the church and the role of pastoral care for survivors. Others have provided liberatory readings of biblical texts to support survivors of sexual violence. Surviving God takes a new approach, centering the voices of sexual abuse survivors while rethinking key Christian beliefs. Starting from experiences of oppression, beliefs that contribute to oppression are challenged, and new, hopeful, and healing beliefs take their place.

Charlie Seiga never beat up old men or defenceless women, but the old-style villain has long gone. Now the streets are full of marauding criminals with no morals, dignity or loyalty. These are the people who got to Seiga. They call themselves the Hyenas and they venture out at night like a gang of scavengers to carry out their so-called work. This is the amazing, shocking, violent story of Charlie Seiga's fate at the hands of the Hyenas and how he made them wish they had not crossed his path.

Fueron los amos y señores del Pachá, el Look, el Oh, Madrid, el Tartufo y otros locales pijos de la capital. Vestían camisetas Caribbean, pantalones Levi's y cazadoras vaqueras y los expulsaban de los mejores colegios privados. Era un grupo de pijos malos que aterrorizaron a muchos en el Madrid de los ochenta.

Lu par l'auteur. Nos pères, nos frères, nos amis est une enquête immersive, un livre essentiel pour comprendre un point aveugle de notre société. La petite graine de la violence, elle pousse, elle pousse, et je pense que cette graine est en moi depuis longtemps, elle fait partie de mon bagage, de ce que m'ont transmis mes parents. La violence surgit comme un instinct animal, et vous murmure à l'oreille : "C'est la faute de l'autre." Pendant quatre ans, le journaliste Mathieu Palain s'est rendu dans des groupes de parole, dans une Maison des femmes, à des auditions judiciaires.

What goes through the mind of a mother who must send her child to school across a minefield or the men who belong to groups of volunteer body collectors? In Ukraine, such questions have been part of the daily calculus of life. Greta Uehling engages with the lives of ordinary people living in and around the armed conflict over Donbas that began in 2014 and shows how conventional understandings of war are incomplete. Everyday War considers where peace can be cultivated at an everyday level.

Haunted by ghosts of the past, she was sailing directly into the eye of a storm. But fighting the challenges at sea was nothing compared with her complex personal struggles on an intense journey to find self-valuation. Determined to complete the life-changing odyssey, in book two of her Living Life Sideways series, Michelle Segrest’s focus turns to an extraordinary effort to salvage her crumbling relationship with a masterfully manipulative skipper.

Michelle Segrest dreamed of checking one giant challenge off her bucket list. Boarding a 43-foot sailboat to rekindle her relationship of six years, she set out on the eight-month voyage from North Germany to Alabama filled with hope. But suffering extreme seasickness and heavy gales in the Baltic proved the least of her problems when she faced abusive gaslighting from her partner. Unable to keep food down long enough to help when maintenance issues struck, Michelle’s only comfort came from her two devoted beagles.

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.

¿Estás atrapado en un agotador y repetitivo ciclo de malas relaciones que siempre resultan iguales, y sospechas que debe haber alguna causa de fondo que impulse tu atracción hacia las personas equivocadas, y ellas hacia ti? ¿Estás dando naturalmente y constantemente te encuentras siendo aprovechado por los tomadores crónicos? Este innovador audiolibro descubre las razones por las que los empáticos y los narcisistas se sienten tan irresistiblemente atraídos el uno por el otro, y las formas en que, armado con la verdad, puedes finalmente romper el ciclo como lo han hecho otros.

Recounting her experiences with sexist discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual violence - beginning in childhood, through the present - Woods lays out clear and unflinching personal vignettes that build in intensity as the number of times grows. Individually, and especially taken as a whole, these stories amount to powerful proof that sexual violence and discrimination are never just one-time occurrences, but part of a constant battle all women face every day.

Are you struggling to move on after an abusive relationship? Did a narcissist break your heart (and almost your spirit), and you’re still lost in heartbreak? Are you afraid of getting involved with the same type of man and hurting all over again? Recovering and healing after an abusive relationship is a difficult journey. You may no longer recognize the woman in the mirror staring back at you. If you're tired of hurting at the hands of your ex and ready to leave the darkness behind, listen o this audiobook, catch the life preserver, and let Suzanna help pull you to shore.

In Narcissism: How to Stop Narcissistic Abuse, Heal Your Relationships, and Transform Your Life, you’ll learn everything you need to know about narcissism. You’ll equip yourself with the tools you need to stop narcissists in their tracks, build healthier relationships, and recover from narcissistic abuse.

Break the romantic bond with your narcissistic ex for good! As a survivor of narcissistic abuse, Jess DeWitt writes in a witty, in-your-face tone about eliminating the narcissist from your life for good. Through anecdotes and inspiring tips, DeWitt makes you realize three things about yourself that you might not have known: you are bigger than your urge to keep in contact with the narcissist, you hold the key for getting true "Revenge" on the narcissist, and your time is much too valuable to be wasting on someone like him.

These events are my recollection of my time during a physically abusive relationship, and due to the nature of the theme, there are some graphic descriptions of what I went through. This book is for people who are currently in, or have been in, an abusive relationship. It can also be a useful tool for people who have a loved one who are in an abusive relationship, as I feel it can help them understand the situation more and therefore be a better source of support.

Pour des raisons culturelles, idéologiques, historiques, la France n'est pas le pays de l'enfant roi... C'est le pays de l'indifférence aux enfants martyrs. Ils sont au mieux considérés comme des adultes miniatures, au pire comme des objets dont les parents sont propriétaires, un peu comme des animaux domestiques. C'est comme si la société française n'arrivait pas à voir les maltraitances, les exactions commises sur les enfants.

In 1994, Lizbeth Meredith said good-bye to her four- and six year-old daughters for a visit with their noncustodial father only to learn days later that they had been kidnapped and taken to their father's home country of Greece. Twenty-nine and just on the verge of making her dreams of financial independence for her and her daughters come true, Lizbeth now faced a $100,000 problem on a $10 an hour budget.

Shawn Harrington returned to Marshall High School as an assistant coach years after appearing as a player in the iconic basketball documentary film Hoop Dreams. In January of 2014, Marshall's struggling team was about to improve after the addition of a charismatic but troubled player. Everything changed, however, when two young men opened fired on Harrington's car as he drove his daughter to school. Harrington was struck and paralyzed. The mistaken-identity shooting was followed by a series of events that had a devastating impact on Harrington and Marshall's basketball family.