Free at Last!: The Power of Relationships in Overcoming Trauma, Abuse, and Eating Disorders

by Shari Botwin

A unique approach to overcoming an unhealthy past through positive, healthy relationships. Each chapter addresses specific issues the victim must deal with during the healing process in order to break the chains of abuse. At the end of each sub-chapter is a section entitled, Have you thought about this?

196 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Shari Botwin, LCSW, has been counseling survivors in recovery from all types of trauma in her Cherry Hill, New Jersey private practice for over twenty-seven years. Her second book, “Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing, Rowman & Littlefield,” (Rowman & Littlefield, November 8, 2019) deals with overcoming trauma including physical and sexual abuse, war-related injury, loss due to tragedy or illness and natural disasters. Real stories and practical tools shed light on how to let go of the shame, guilt, anger, and despair after a traumatic experience. Botwin's third book, "Stolen Childhoods," releases worldwide on May 7, 2024! Botwin is also narrating the audiobook, launching June 11, 2024.

Botwin has served as a trauma expert witness in civil and criminal cases involving childhood abuse, sexual assault, gun violence and related issues. She is also a featured guest trauma contributor on the Law and Crime Network.

She has conducted Keynote presentations for Monte Nido, International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals, Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Organization, Hoftstra University and Bay Path University. Shari has given expert commentary on breaking stories related to trauma (Covid-19) on a variety of international media outlets; including ,NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning NBC News Now with Dr. John Torres, NBC Stay Tuned, ABC News, CBS News, MSNBC Live, CTV News, CP-24 News, CNN, Sports Illustrated, Prevention Magazine, The New York Times, Parade Magazine, Parents Magazine, Newsbreak, Greatist, The Associated Press, Philadelphia Magazine and Radio Europe. Shari has also published feature articles in Thrive Global, Medium, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Toronto Star. She has dedicated her life’s work to helping survivors after living through years of childhood abuse and multiple traumas in her early adulthood.