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Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage. To her family's fury, Shazia is sent to live with foster carer Maggie Hartley whilst social services investigate. But with Shazia denying everything and social services unable to find any evidence to support the teacher's fears, Shazia is allowed to return home.

Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an emergency after suffering non-accidental injuries. Aneta and Filip, the children’s parents, are distraught when their children are taken into care. Aneta maintains...

Growing up in a quiet, middle-class suburb outside of Amsterdam, childhood best friends Anna and Olivia had their whole lives ahead of them. But every parent's worst nightmare came true when the teenagers fell in with the wrong crowd. Eleven years their senior, Ryan was charming and good-looking...

June Briand shot four bullets into her husband's head and was sentenced to 15 years to life. This is the shocking, true story of survival - and the intense bond June shared with her pathologically violent husband, a monster who physically and sexually tortured, degraded, and dominated her so relentlessly she refused to believe he was dead even after she killed him.

By the age of 13, vulnerable Sheffield teenager Samantha Owens had fallen through the cracks in the care system. Bounced around numerous foster carers after her home life became too chaotic, Samantha thought she had found a friend in the streetwise Amanda Spencer. The older girl bought her clothes, styled her hair and found her places to stay. Samantha's welfare was the last thing on Spencer's mind, however, as in reality she was grooming the young girl for exploitation of the worst possible kind.

Officers from the RSPCA investigate reports of animal cruelty and neglect on a farm, only to discover a 5-year-old boy curled up asleep in a dog bed, amidst filth and squalor. He has severe physical and cognitive impairments, and no one outside the family seems to know of the existence of little Jacob. When he arrives in the Allen household, a terrified Louise wonders how on earth she will cope looking after a child with his level of physical and emotional damage. With the support of veteran social worker, Mary, the fight begins to get Jacob the support he needs.

Coupling stories of abused women and abusive men from her own case studies, Patricia Evans here gives you the tools you need to transform your relationship. Most important, she assures you that such a transformation is possible—given the right circumstances. Evans also helps you determine if your abuser really has changed—or if he’s merely creating the illusion of change. And if he hasn’t changed, Evans helps you decide whether it’s time to leave the relationship—and what to do when it is.

With a science meets magic approach, this book shows high achievers how to handle interpersonal dynamics, so they finally stop being “open for business” to toxic people. For high achievers, the most exhausting question is the nagging, internal whisper: Am I the problem? In Am I the Problem?...

You are not imagining it. Some conversations leave you feeling strangely drained. Some relationships slowly chip away at your confidence. Some people seem to demand endless emotional energy, while giving very little in return. And the most confusing part? Nothing they do appears openly cruel. There are no obvious insults. No dramatic conflicts. No clear moment you can point to and say, “That’s what went wrong.” Yet somehow, you walk away feeling smaller, heavier, and more exhausted than before.

Can You See Me? is a raw, courageous memoir of survival, addiction, faith, and healing. From a childhood marked by abandonment, abuse, and silence, Latoya Pemberton learned early what it meant to be unseen. Passed between caregivers, stripped of safety, and burdened by trauma no child should endure, she grew into adulthood carrying wounds that shaped every choice she made. Addiction became a way to survive what she could not yet name. With unflinching honesty, Latoya shares her journey through substance abuse, loss, incarceration, broken relationships, and the relentless search for relief.

Are you exhausted from simply surviving each day, feeling trapped in patterns of anxiety, emotional numbness, or overwhelming triggers that leave you questioning if healing is even possible? If trauma has quietly shaped every corner of your life, you are not broken. You deserve more than just coping strategies—you deserve genuine, lasting healing. This compassionate 90-day trauma recovery guide was specifically designed for adults navigating complex PTSD and trauma recovery.

Pessimism is a mindset characterized by a tendency to focus on the negative aspects of situations, anticipating unfavorable outcomes and often expressing doubt or skepticism about the future. This outlook can manifest in various ways, from subtle commentary on everyday events to overt expressions of despair about life’s direction.

You’ll be taken on a journey through my eyes, from childhood to adulthood, where you’ll experience my biases and see how I justified my actions (whether right or wrong), and how I perceived the world. Experience my confusions and revelations as I learned to grow, but most of all, you’ll feel my pain and anguish as I am hurt and abused by those whom I loved. I have been beaten down, hated, abused, and stomped on physically and mentally, but I sit here today, unashamed and stronger than ever. I wear my scars like a badge of honor. These are my battle wounds, and I survived.

Un libro sobre el impacto mundial del #MeToo, que se expande como la pólvora. Desde que la etiqueta #MeToo se hizo viral, se ha roto el silencio que rodea el acoso y las agresiones y abusos sexuales. Pero ¿cómo ha sido la interacción entre esta campaña global y los activismos locales de...

When your parents are pathologically self-centered, manipulative, or emotionally abusive, the pain they cause is deep and often difficult to put into words. You may experience anxiety, depression, complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), low self-esteem, addiction, or other mental health conditions as an adult. But it was not your fault, and there are tools you can use to heal the trauma caused by your childhood.

Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she’s too young to even understand. When Casey first meets Kiera, a small slight girl who’s just lashed out at a fellow pupil in assembly, she...

Toxic relationships with narcissists can leave lasting psychological and emotional effects, often trapping people in confusion, rumination, and self-doubt. This audiobook aims to bring clarity to those who have experienced such dynamics, particularly with individuals who present as kind, humble, or even empathic—while hiding a deeply manipulative and destructive personality beneath the surface.

The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score) Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist...

A hugely inspirational and practical guide for those dealing with trauma or wondering how to make a difference. Harrison James knows pain – but he also knows purpose. As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, Harrison transformed his darkest experiences into a powerful force for change, taking...

Rosie Batty knows pain no woman should have to suffer. Her son was killed by his father in a violent incident in February 2014, a horrendous event that shocked not only the nation but the world. Greg Anderson murdered his 11-year-old son, Luke, and was then shot by police at the Tyabb cricket oval. Rosie had suffered years of family violence and had had intervention and custody orders in place in an effort to protect herself and her son. She believes the killing was Greg's final act of control over her.