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How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope. Only when we understand the science of the mind and the power of love and nurturing can we hope to heal the spirit of even the most wounded child.

As far as Jennifer can remember, her father was abusive but her mother wasn’t always. She remembers a time when she felt loved by her mother. All that changed when Jennifer was 11. Her mother snapped and became a monster like her father was. Then they turned on her. Jennifer fought to become who she wanted to be, and not who her parents were trying to make her be. She refused to allow the torture change her, like it changed her mother. This is the story of Jennifer’s past, how she got through it, and how she survived it all.

In her new book, the Sunday Times and New York Times best-selling author of Damaged tells the story of the Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the hands of the very people who should have cared for her. Dawn was the first girl Cathy Glass ever fostered. Sweet and seemingly well balanced girl, Dawn's outward appearance masked a traumatic childhood so awful, that even she could not remember it.

In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. Jackie grew up fatherless and experienced gender confusion. She embraced masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about all of the above. But was she supposed to change herself? How was she supposed to stop loving women, when homosexuality felt more natural to her than heterosexuality ever could?

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.

Dealing with narcissism is a painful and lonely thing to endure. Most people are aware of narcissism as experienced in romantic relationships, where either party exhibits narcissistic traits of having low empathy, exaggerated sense of entitlement, or has an inability to admit making mistakes. The instinct may be to leave that romantic partner because no one deserves to be in a relationship that lacks mutual love and respect. It's difficult navigating that type of narcissism, but what if the narcissist in your life happens to be your mother. What then?

Was it My Fault? is intended to offer solace and guidance to those ensnared in toxic relationships, dispelling the notion that abuse is solely physical. Inspiring self-discovery, healing, and empowerment, Alana offers a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, a rallying cry for survivors to reclaim their narrative—urging them not just to survive, but to thrive.

Never fast enough, never smart enough, never pretty enough - just never enough. I was conditioned from a young age to firmly believe that I would never be enough of anything to attain the unconditional love I craved so deeply from my bipolar, narcissistic mother and the safety and protection I craved from my loving but terrified father. My life truly started the day I woke up and realized that the emotional abuse of my childhood had distorted the lens through which I see myself and the world around me.

Gewalt, Unfälle, Sucht, Diskriminierung, Hate Speech und Extremismus – Männer dominieren die Statistiken des Abgrunds: Sie verursachen doppelt so viele Verkehrsunfälle, begehen mit Abstand die meisten Straftaten und belegen deshalb auch 94 Prozent der deutschen Gefängnisse. 75 Prozent der Alkoholtoten jedes Jahr sind männlich und mehr als 80 Prozent der häuslichen Gewalt geht von Männern aus.

Headlines about the arrest of a well-regarded community member for charges of child pornography and abuse are disturbing in the collective sense. When the person charged and sentenced to 15 years turns out to be a man you’ve dated, the blow is sharp and personal. The questions and shock, the shame, reverberate at length. Infused with empathy, insight, and humor, Then There Was Larry is an exploration of how well we really know anyone. How can we trust that people are who they seem?

While the elders and adults struggled to keep secrets in the midst of stolen shoes, stolen dreams, and misbehavior, the four-year-old professor desperately held onto his desire for the future and urgency to be an adult. The older the professor got the stronger his vision became and it wasn't long before hidden secrets were exposed. Although the names have been changed the people are real and the story is true right down to the little professor's vision of Esta.

Die ergreifenden Schilderungen des Friedensnobelpreisträgers von 2018. Denis Mukwege, weltbekannter kongolesischer Gynäkologe und Menschenrechtsaktivist, hat es sich zur Lebensaufgabe gemacht, Opfern sexueller Gewalt zu helfen. Er erhielt 2018 den Friedensnobelpreis für seinen Einsatz für die Gesundheit und Rechte von Frauen in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo. Im Hörbuch verwebt er seine eigene dramatische Lebensgeschichte mit den Schilderungen einzelner Frauenschicksale.

Starke Eltern, starke Kinder - starke Familien. Als Familie in eine Krise zu schlittern, ist keine Kunst - seien es außergewöhnliche Herausforderungen oder unvorhersehbare Schicksalsschläge. Doch wer sich als selbstwirksam erlebt und nicht so schnell den Optimismus und Humor verliert, ist widerstandsfähiger und kann Probleme besser bewältigen. Die gute Nachricht ist: Diese Eigenschaften lassen sich trainieren, nicht nur als einzelne Person, sondern als gesamte Familie!

Weit über 100 getötete Frauen allein in Deutschland pro Jahr: Morde, über die niemand spricht. Jeden Tag versucht in Deutschland ein Mann, seine Frau umzubringen. Alle 3 Tage wird eine Frau von ihrem Partner oder Ex-Partner getötet. Hinzu kommen die Morde an Frauen durch ihnen unbekannte Täter. Diese Verbrechen sind keine Ehrenmorde oder Beziehungstaten, sondern Femizide: Morde, die an Frauen verübt werden, weil sie Frauen sind.

Growing up in an environment unsure of anything is stressful. Being unaware, but knowing at the same time something doesn’t feel right, is uncomfortable. You know the saying “what goes on in this house stays in this house”. But what actually goes on in this house? Who do you call? What do you say? Do I love her enough to endure this with her?Does she love me enough to let go? If love is the key that unlocks the heart, then where is the key that prevents death?

Marilyn Elaine Lundberg’s true crime memoir, Jagger’s Eyes, is a brutally honest account of how one unfortunate little girl turned to animals for love, safety, and comfort. The trauma of incest and neglect occurred behind closed doors in her Christian home and crippled her psychologically as a child. Her attacks produced PTSD, suicidal depression, chronic anxiety, panic attacks, agoraphobia, anorexia, plus more, and she was housebound for many years as an adult.