No Longer Denying Sexual Abuse: Making the Choices That Can Change Your Life

by Kim O'Hara

An uplifting, focused book for abuse survivors on overcoming denial, the cornerstone and entry point of recovery from abuse.

We spend a majority of our lives as survivors with no clue what we are actually surviving. To protect us, our brains have frozen in time the incidents fueling our ability to be in denial. Unfortunately, the truth of our sexual abuse seeps out into all areas of our lives, causing us to behave like maligned versions of our true selves. We yell, when we are not yellers. We cheat, when we want love. We drink and abuse drugs when we want to see God. Only through facing the denial do we find our true selves hidden in the cobwebs.

Author/Columnist/Abuse Advocate Kim O'Hara takes the reader through the journey she went on for the last eleven years in chapters delineated by the arc of her recovery - from Remembering, to Understanding The Past to Facing Abuse. She speaks on recovering her Original Identity, Telling Others and Spirituality. As the book was birthed from her own personal need to have a go-to guide for life on the other side of recovery, O'Hara is candid about her dating life, sobriety and parenting, while offering tips and tools for any he/she/they who has suffered from any abuse.

She is also hosting a 21 week series - No Longer Abused - which is free to attend with proof of the book. One can attend this safe space on line live or sign up for the recordings.

290 pages, Paperback

Published February 28, 2023

About the author

Intuitive Book Coach Kim O’Hara has led her 40+ best-selling book clients into the depths of their story for the last nine years, helping them to find their voice and their truth. As a coach, editor and writing doula, she guides her book writing clients to their unique voice within their books. They write exceptional books that have been chosen for the Today Show 2023 Motivational Book of the Month, highlighted on the Kelly Clarkson Show, and top ten USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Barnes & Noble lists. Her clients’ books have been distributed by top publishers including Penguin Random House. Along with achieving their book writing dream, her clients discover their intellectual property through their books and carve a powerful next career pivot.
Her two-decade career in Hollywood as a movie producer and screenwriter adds that special edge of storytelling and crafting a story that entertains as well as evokes emotion. She sees the greatest potential in anyone who is willing to voice that dream. A writer for thirty years, she is a contributor to the LA Times and author of the book No Longer Denying Sexual Abuse: Making The Choices That Can Change Your Life. She also writes a weekly column, Inner Circle. She is a sought speaker at women’s leadership conferences and is a contributing expert for top business publications on book writing. She has also contributed essays to prestigious literary journals. She hosts the popular podcast You Should Write A Book About That.®
You can learn more about Kim at kimohara.com and her books at kimoharabooks.com. You can find her column at kimohara.substack.com.

Reviews

[Felicia Kashevaroff · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is essential to anyone who has been subjected to behavior that has made them feel small and undervalued. Kim’s honest, vulnerable stories about her own life allow the reader to relate and feel seen and heard. This book offers solution-oriented tools and exercises to help readers work through various stages of abuse.

[J.D. DeHart · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kim O'Hara writes bravely, as well as with compassion and honesty. I will be revisiting the content of this book for some time to come, and highly recommend this for others to read, as well. This is a book of healing and hope, well-written and full of helpful insights.