Showing results by publisher "----RM Alexander" in Sexual Abuse & Harassment

While patriarchy and misogyny are problems everywhere, they take on a particularly pernicious form in Christian churches, where those with power have been insisting, since many decades before #MeToo, that this sexually dysfunctional environment is, in fact, exactly how God wants it to be. #ChurchToo turns over the rocks of the church's sexual dysfunction, revealing just what makes sexualized violence in religious contexts both ubiquitous and uniquely traumatizing.

For readers of Know My Name by Chanel Miller and fans of Broadway’s John Proctor Is the Villain, a stunning memoir in verse about sexual abuse, survival, and sisterhood from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood Water Paint. Joy McCullough’s earliest memories are of time spent in...

The overall message of this book is this: Victory is realistic and within our grasp no matter the violation. As a sexual abuse survivor, I know that true and lasting healing from sexual trauma involves a recognition of the importance of both the physical and spiritual dimensions of wholeness. What's unique about this book, and what I haven't personally encountered in any other book or through any other counseling in the 35 years I've been on this journey, is that the physical is tethered to the spiritual.

Old Before Their Time is the deeply personal story of a thirty-five-year scientific investigation of the effects of childhood sexual abuse on child development and adult outcomes. The startling conclusion is that early childhood trauma accelerates biological aging of the body and the mind.

Five Women. A Crumbling City. A Daring Flight to Freedom. August 2021. The fall of Kabul. Twenty years after they were defeated, the Taliban storms Afghanistan's capital, claiming every piece of land they pass and plunging the city into chaos. For Anjali and four other women, who were all from...

Lydiette Carrión—autora de La fosa de agua—explora en este libro la forma en que los feminicidios han sido narrados y mistificados, hasta llegar a ser usados, al menos desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX, para posicionar productos de consumo, a la par que fomentan la asimilación de figuras estereotipadas de la feminidad y la violencia de género.

«Hice daño a mucha gente (¿a 85?), a demasiados». Con apenas dieciocho años, el sacerdote español Alfonso Pedrajas, también llamado padre Pica, se hizo misionero jesuita para ayudar a los más pobres en Bolivia, país en el que trabajó como profesor hasta su muerte en 2009. No obstante, detrás de una imagen de religioso misericordioso se escondía un depredador que agredió sexualmente a los pequeños a los que había jurado proteger, en especial a los que acogió en el internado Juan XXIII en Cochabamba.

‘The Grip of Childhood Sexual Abuse’ tells the story of our healing journey to overcome the impacts of our abuse. Tragically victims unknowingly accrue many syndromes and disorders as a direct result of enduring sexual abuse over a long period of time. We believe we can help victims by sharing what we've learned. Through recognizing our own strengths, we can encourage others to shed the self-limiting beliefs trauma survivors often unconsciously own.

¿Qué pasó con Nevenka tras el «caso Nevenka»? Nevenka Fernández se convirtió en una figura pública por ser la primera mujer en conseguir una sentencia condenatoria por acoso sexual en el ámbito laboral contra un político, convirtiendo el caso que lleva su nombre en un hito histórico de la lucha contra la violencia de género en España. Nevenka tuvo que enfrentarse no solo al proceso judicial, sino también a un fuerte rechazo social y mediático, lo que la llevó, en 2001, a abandonar España.

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.

¿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.

Told from the perspective of an adult female who was sexually abused as a child, this book takes a deep look into the world of pedophiles and their behaviors. Through cases from history and real events from her past, she helps paint a more vivid picture of the "Chester Molesters" who are hiding in plain sight.

FINALIST FOR THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION WORD GUILD AWARDS BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR By the author of the award-winning The Ghost Garden, a bravely imagined, deeply empathetic novel of two adolescent boys, bound by friendship and a terrible secret. With love and sex so...

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.

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.

Du kannst nicht ändern, was passiert ist, aber du kannst ändern, wie du damit umgehst. Du darfst neue Wege gehen! Was macht sexuelle Gewalt mit einem Menschen und seinem Umfeld? Diese Frage beantwortet Michael Reh, selbst Überlebender von jahrelangem sexuellem Missbrauch, in seinen neun Geboten.

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.

Stop the Silence is a department in the Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma (IVAT) and has a mission to prevent, expose, and stop child sexual abuse (CSA) and help survivors worldwide. Thanks to the efforts of experts, healers, and survivors and their supporters around the globe, we’re preventing CSA and promoting healing of victims and survivors, celebrating the lives of those healed, and underscoring CSA as social justice and civil rights issues.

Un imprenditore multimilionario, con il tocco di re Mida quando si tratta di portare al successo innovative startup digitali, viene arrestato per reati che vanno dalla violenza sessuale al sequestro di persona, dalle lesioni allo spaccio di droga, compiuti in un attico nel centro di Milano o in una villa di Ibiza, teatro di feste sfrenate a cui partecipavano vip dello spettacolo, professionisti affermati, celebrità assortite e modelle giovanissime.