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Do you have a toxic family member? Do you feel like cutting ties with this person—even as painful and scary as that may sound—would dramatically increase your well-being and improve your life? You're not alone. In Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members, psychologist and toxic family survivor Sherrie Campbell offers effective strategies for setting strong boundaries after ending contact with a toxic family member, and provides powerful tools to help you heal from shame, self-doubt, and stigma. You'll find the validation you need to embrace your decision with pride.

When she was 14, Jasvinder Sanghera was shown a photo of the man chosen to be her husband. She was terrified. She'd witnessed the torment her sisters endured in their arranged marriages, so she ran away from home and was grief-stricken when her parents disowned her. Shame is the heart-rending true story of a young girl's attempt to escape from a cruel, claustrophobic world where family honour mattered more than anything, sometimes more than life itself.

Shame is one of the most destructive of human emotions. If you suffered childhood physical or sexual abuse, you may experience such intense feelings of shame that it almost seems to define you as a person. In order to begin healing, it's important for you to know that it wasn't your fault. In this gentle guide, therapist and childhood abuse expert Beverly Engel presents a mindfulness and compassion-based therapeutic approach to help you overcome the debilitating shame that keeps you tied to the past.

My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon, begins Shame, the probing story of the 12-year-old girl who will become the author herself and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. With the emotionally rich voice of great fiction and the diamond-sharp analytical eye of a scientist, Annie Ernaux provides a powerful reflection on experience and the power of violent memory to endure through time, to determine the course of a life.

Foster carer Maggie Hartley is used to all manner of children arriving on her doorstep, but nothing can prepare her for sisters Billy and Bo when they arrive at her home. It is clear from the moment she sets eyes on them that four-year-old Bo and seven-year-old Billy have clearly been subjected to unimaginable neglect, and it takes all of Maggie's skills as a foster carer to try to connect with the volatile little girls, who seem far younger than their years.

Somatic trauma therapist and positive psychology coach Caroline Strawson wants to show you that your past is not your life sentence. No matter what’s happened in your life, you can find joy, light, and happiness again. Integrating her own lived experience of narcissistic abuse with trauma-informed practices and positive psychology interventions, this audiobook will help you heal and begin to feel like yourself again.

Childhood sexual abuse (or child sexual abuse/CSA) is not only an assault on the body—it is an assault on the mind and on the spirit. It is an insult to the victim’s integrity, her self-esteem, his very being. Besides imposing a significantly higher risk of conditions like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sexual exploitation, intimate partner violence, suicidality, substance abuse, and learning & educational difficulties, the most devastating consequence of childhood sexual abuse is shame.

Sexual abuse is the secret shame that lies deep within. Men hold on to this secret shame for an average of 25 years before they disclose the hurt and pain they have endured and carried from sexual abuse perpetrated by another male. As men disclose their abuse, it is important to examine how the abuse changed their thinking and behavior. A good majority of men were abused before puberty. The research shows that men, on average, are abused around the age of eight or nine, while in the latency stage of development.

As a child, we look up to our parents for support, love guidance & protection. They are the guiding wisdom for us to grow healthily in all areas of our lives. However, when your parents are immature. They are incapable of giving you the support you need. Instead, you become the parent they are seeking. Being grown up in this dynamic is a trauma. There are insecurities, a lack of love, and fears of being vulnerable. We develop unhealthy coping mechanisms to deal with our emotions and mental beliefs. This could possibly result in a sabotaging life.

Today, we live in a world controlled by fear and anxiety—coercion, manipulation, hate speech, bullying, and violent acts. Most offenses are perpetrated by people who are supposed to love us, such as fathers, mothers, friends, and partners. Certain people, who are immature adults, take advantage of our natural goodness to manipulate our emotions. Consciously or unconsciously, they will leave us wounds that are difficult to heal. As a result, we feel emotionally neglected, with feelings of anxiety and guilt for not responding to the wishes and whims of others.

Healing Honestly is a candid, poignant, and often funny survivor-to-survivor guide to navigating the salty waters of untrue stories and victim-blaming narratives that survivors of child sex abuse hear every day.

Shame is a powerful and misunderstood emotion that drives self-sabotage, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and countless other behaviors that keep us small. In a world that runs on shame, it’s easy to believe that you’re flawed, broken, or unworthy. But the truth is, there’s nothing wrong with you—and you have the power to free yourself from shame’s toxic grip.

Had Talia’s secrets chased her to this moment? She hoped that she had finally found a peaceful, happy life with her husband and baby boy. Living in a beautiful house in a quiet lakeside community, she wanted to believe that she had escaped the traumas of abuse that had haunted her as a teenager. Still, darkness followed her into adulthood. What could she do with the secrets she carried? Would revealing them destroy her family once and for all?

"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.

Childhood sexual abuse leaves invisible marks that carry into adulthood and stop you from doing, dreaming, and achieving. The root of shame keeps you feeling undervalued, even in your own eyes. You lose years living in safe mediocrity instead of purposeful intention. This is not God's plan for you .Author Andrea S. Jones understands this all too well. Her authentic sharing of some hard truths will walk you through the steps a predator takes in grooming his victim. You will see how he becomes a loved member of the family while targeting his prey.

We are complex beings - comprised of a mind, body, and soul. Not fixed, ever evolving and always becoming. And yet we often ignore or misplace the critical element of spirit, filled with grace, which we desperately need in order to establish the truth of our identity. Through this intimate experience of self-discovery, you will learn how to identify the voids and deep desires of your wholeness and alignment. Your eyes will be opened to the secret journey of a woman living in a culture fixated on exterior affirmations, expectations, and justifications.

When your innocence crumbles because of sexual trauma or regret, damage is inevitable—defeat isn't. Life took your innocence, but shame is snatching everything that remains. Maybe someone took your choice, or perhaps you regret the choices you made, but with dysfunctional sexual incidents on the rise, so are the numbers of women living with the shame incurred from these detrimental experiences increasing as well.

The first story is about an infant who is unwanted by her mother. The infant's aunt, Njana, is horrified when she learns of this. And yet, Njana envies her niece because she is born in the mid-1970s. This means the niece won't be subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) like Njana was before she turned 14 in the 1960s. The second story is about Njana's trauma sanctioned by her parents, the very people who are supposed to protect her from harm. The story is set in Kenya and later in California. Njana discloses, for the first time, how she suffered FGM in the backwoods of Kenya.

Survivors of sexual abuse and assault often find themselves feeling like the woman who touched the hem of the Lord's robe to be healed: desperately needing the Savior's help, but feeling too full of shame and pain to approach him. When seeking help, survivors are generally counseled to forgive, but instead of bringing relief, this message often increases their shame and pain.

Finding hope out of shame's transgenerational grip. Diggin' Up Bones reveals shame’s maniacal weaponry, joker-like masks, and mind games causing psychological and emotional damage to the most vulnerable, manifesting itself in adulthood, and conceived and embedded across future generations. This inspirational love story digs deep, challenging and uprooting the matters of a wounded soul and mind. It’s where truth and lies collide.