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This book will teach you ways to overcome the anger, disparity and hurt that is associated with sexual assault. It affects everyone. This book is about real people who overcame the impossible and found healing, happiness, family, and love in the process...and you can too!

Por que o estupro é um crime ainda tão comum no Brasil? Por que a vítima muitas vezes é tão – ou mais – julgada pela sociedade do que o próprio criminoso? Por que é tão difícil fazer uma denúncia? Após quatro anos de pesquisas, viagens pelo país e mais de 100 entrevistas com vítimas e familiares, criminosos, psiquiatras e diversos especialistas no assunto, a jornalista Ana Paula Araújo escreve Abuso - a cultura do estupro no Brasil com coragem e sem meias-verdades.

¿Qué es la violencia obstétrica? ¿Por qué está tan normalizada? ¿Cómo prevenirla y qué hacer para detenerla? En este libro se encuentran todas las respuestas y también las soluciones.

This is a workbook geared towards helping people that have experienced abuse work through the deception, silence, and secrecy. It is an instrument to reassure victims that they are loved by God and have a purpose to flourish on Earth. It gives examples and ways of getting help that will lead to recovery and healing.

As a lonely girl coming of age in the 1970s, Liz has every reason to believe her eighth-grade teacher is in love with her. Because the sex isn’t physically violent and is wrapped in a message of love, she learns to exchange sex for attention. But years later, as an adult, emotional closeness eludes Liz. Even after marrying a sensitive, caring man, she is walled off. Struggling through confusing years, she believes something is deeply wrong with her.

Tech executive, business consultant, and recording artist Sabe Anderson delivers a no-holds-barred account of his spiral into hell, and how he clawed his way out again with the support of family and the women who refused to give up on him. His story dives into bipolar disorder, sexual abuse, and addiction and the financial, mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional hardships that came in their wake.

Dez de setembro de 2016. A atendente do drive-thru de uma lanchonete em Ramos, no subúrbio do Rio de Janeiro, sai da cabine para entregar o lanche ao cliente de um Jetta branco. Quando o vidro escuro é baixado, a jovem vê um homem de cabelo branco ao volante e, no carona, uma menina que aparenta não ter mais que dois anos. A cena seria corriqueira se não fosse insólita: o motorista é Pedro Chavarry Duarte, coronel reformado da Polícia Militar do Rio de Janeiro, que no dia seguinte estaria em todos os telejornais, acusado de estupro de vulnerável.

"Guilty Shame" is about victims of abuse and rape who are having a difficult time forgiving themself for what had happened to them. While guilt can lead to remorse and a person turning from unhealthy habits; shame is what keeps many from holistic healing.

I Had No One To Tell 2 is a continuation of Part 1 detailing the origin of a sexual abuse curse that has plagued our family for generations. The secrets kept by family embarrassment and shame have reached a boiling point within the new generation.

Unheard Screams is based on a true story about a girl named Thelma who grew up as a CODA and struggled between two worlds: the hearing and the deaf. Isolated in a farming country outside of town, she lived a life of silence and loss of identity. Thelma was the only one in her biological family that could hear and speak.

A book designed to help women and girls deal with rape and sexual attacks and lay out a path to increase the percentage of successful prosecutions above the meager 1.50% at present.

Tania Del Río expone un reclamo social, una denuncia urgente para modificar este inventario actual, para solidarizarse con estos seres humanosy colectivos que, buscando a los suyos, suman fuerzas para superar esta muerte lenta.

Violée à 15 ans par son entraîneur, la patineuse brise l'omerta. " Vous étiez mon entraîneur. Je venais d'avoir quinze ans. Et vous m'avez violée. Il aura fallu trente ans pour que ma colère cachée se transforme enfin en cri public. Vous avez détruit ma vie, monsieur O., pendant que vous meniez tranquillement la vôtre. Aujourd'hui, je veux balayer ma honte, la faire changer de camp. Mais je veux aussi dénoncer le monde sportif qui vous a protégé, et vous protège encore à l'heure où j'écris ces lignes. Quand j'ai voulu parler, à plusieurs reprises, je n'ai pas pu le faire.

Feeling numb and scared and exhausted and angry, you're not alone. Sexual abuse is not something that any individual will ever “get over” in their lives. You are not alone.

La autora de este libro coge mal el lápiz. Lo ha cogido mal desde niña, cuando algunos profesores se empeñaban en corregirla porque "hay que escribir como Dios manda", e, incapaz de aprender, ha seguido cogiéndolo mal hasta el día de hoy, con todas las consecuencias. Porque... ¿puede acaso salir buena letra de un lápiz torcido? Ésta es una de las cuestiones que planean sobre este conjunto de cuentos: la de la escritura indócil, libre y acelerada, la escritura que araña y rasga la memoria, que destroza los recuerdos y hace de ellos otra cosa.

The Catholic Church has long been featured in headlines regarding sexual abuse. Now, a Catholic priest gives the full inside scoop. Joseph Copperson, nonpracticing priest for an American Catholic parish, writes this memoir detailing decades of clerical abuse throughout the Catholic Church. Becoming ordained during the 1960s and the major cultural upheavals of the Vietnam war and the sexual revolution, Copperson’s experience winds from rigorous theological training in Europe to the ongoing, worldwide changes wrought by the Second Vatican Council.

In Because I Didn't Tell, author Suzanne Harmony offers a self-help autobiography detailing an account of the horrific events of her young adult life. These events fiercely unraveled her one-safe world into a dungeon of despair propelled by life-or-death threats and brain-washed promises of "not to tell". Her journey through hell, led by the devil himself, clearly demonstrates the destructive trail of deceit, including lying to herself, in her desperate attempt to save lives: her own, her unborn child's, and her family members'.

Author Kim O'Hara takes the listener through her eleven years of recovery and offers tools and tips to make different choices in living while looking at generational abuse, spirituality, inner child, taking back one's body, financial independence and romance.

A small and effeminate boy bullied for years while growing up in an alcoholic family in suburban Cleveland Gil finds refuge in the equestrian world. A coach instills in him the dream of going to the Olympics and becomes his mentor, his guide and his predator. Gil survives rape, betrayals, setbacks, and the loss of family and friends all while on a quest to fulfill his dream. This book is not only about surviving; it's about the resilience of the human spirit and the pursuit of dreams against all odds.

"What do you do when it seems as if the God you were taught about is “absent” to you? What if the man you loved and would do anything for, violated you and your trust? What if that man is a family member? What if that family member is your dad? You are broken, your relationships are destroyed, your life appears to be in pieces. Your thought process is destroyed, so you think. You don’t trust men anymore because your “earthly” dad messed that up for you. Not to mention your trust in a Man you were taught to believe in that you’ve never seen before, allowed it to happen.