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Abuse
These books - fiction or non-fiction - deal with abuse in all its forms. Relates to adult or/and child abuse.
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Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can’t afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she’s being abused—pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go undergr
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― Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child
― Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child
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This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.
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― Captive in the Dark
― Captive in the Dark
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