In her classic books The Courage to Heal and Allies in Healing, Laura Davis helped millions cope with the trauma of child sexual abuse. Her supportive guide Becoming the Parent You Want to Be taught parents to create a vision for their families. Now, in I Thought We'd Never Speak Again, she tackles another critical, emerging issue: reconciling relationships sundered by betrayal, anger, and misunderstanding.
With her trademark clarity and compassion, Davis maps the reconciliation process through gripping firstperson stories of people who have reconciled under a wide variety of difficult circumstances. In these pages, parents reconcile with children, embittered siblings reconnect, estranged friends reunite, and war veterans and crime victims meet with their enemies. Davis weaves these powerful accounts with her own experiences reconciling with her mother after a long, painful estrangement.
Making a crucial distinction between reconciliation and forgiveness, Davis explains how people can make peace in relationships without necessarily forgiving past hurts. Step by step, she clarifies the qualities needed for reconciliation-including maturity, discernment, determination, courage, communication, and compassion. To help readers gauge their own readiness, she includes a self-assessment entitled "Are You Ready for Reconciliation?" as well as a special section called "Ideas for Reflection and Discussion."
On each page of this inspiring and instructive book, Laura Davis offers hope and help for reconciliation between individuals, and in the larger human family, sharing essential keys for resolving troubled relationships and finding peace.

I Thought We'd Never Speak Again: The Road from Estrangement to Reconciliation

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Davis, Laura

Mental Health

Harper

The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse [hardcover] Bass, Ellen,Davis, Laura [Mar 01, 1988] ...

The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Politics & Social Sciences

Bass, Ellen

Social Sciences

Harpercollins

Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child

A guide for partners of survivors of child sexual abuse addresses their needs as secondary victims and offers practical advice on supporting their loved ones on the path to recovery while attending to their own needs

Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused As a Child

Psychology & Counseling

There's nothing as wonderful as starting to heal, waking up in the morning and knowing that nobody can hurt you if you don't let them. Beginning to Heal offers hope and guidance for all survivors starting the healing journey. No matter how great your pain today, you can not only heal but thrive. Based on the authors' bestseller The Courage to Heal, this Revised Edition of Beginning to Heal takes you through the key stages of the healing process, from crisis times to breaking the silence, grief, and anger, to resolution and moving on. It includes inspirational highlights, clear explanations, practical suggestions, and compelling accounts of survivors' pain, their strength, and their triumphs.

Beginning to Heal (Revised Edition): A First Book for Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused As Children

Reference

William Morrow Paperbacks

The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who, was sexually abused as a child -- and those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible. The authors weave personal experience with professional knowledge to show the reader how she can come to terms with her past while moving powerfully into the future. They provide clear explanations, practical suggestions, a map of the healing journey, and many moving first-person examples of the recovery process drawn from their interviews with hundreds of survivors.
Definitive in scope, The Courage to Heal speaks directly to the survivor in a warm and personal way:
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TAKING STOCK -- outlines the effects of child sexual abuse and the ways women cope over time.</li>
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THE HEALING PROCESS -- explores each stage from the decision to heal and remembering through breaking silence, knowing it wasn't your fault, nurturing the inner child, and grief and anger, to resolution and moving on.</li>
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CHANGING PATTERNS -- offers in-depth guidance for shifting self-defeating patterns in specific areas of one's present life, including self-esteem, feelings, intimacy, sexuality, and dealing with families.</li>
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SUPPORTERS OF SURVIVORS -- provides insight and strategies for partners of survivors, family members, and counselors.</li>
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COURAGEOUS WOMEN -- profiles survivors who share the challenges and triumphs of their own healing journeys.</li>
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HONORING THE TRUTH -- a substantial new Afterword that refutes the "false memory" argument and presents a thorough and enlightening response to the backlash.</li>
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RESOURCE GUIDE -- fully updated for this edition -- informs readers about therapy, healing activities, recommended reading, support groups, self-help programs, and services and organizations.</li>
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The Courage to Heal - Third Edition - Revised and Expanded: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Harper-perennial

In her bestselling classic The Courage to Heal, Laura Davis helped millions heal from the pain of child sexual abuse. Now, in I Thought We'd Never Speak Again, she tackles another critical, emerging issue: reconciling relationships that have been damaged by betrayal, anger, and misunderstanding. With clarity and compassion, Davis maps the reconciliation process through gripping first-person stories of people who have mended relationships in a wide variety of circumstances. In these pages, parents reconcile with children, embittered siblings reconnect, angry friends reunite, and war veterans and crime victims meet with their enemies. Davis weaves these powerful accounts with her own experiences reconciling with her mother after a long, painful estrangement. Making a crucial distinction between reconciliation and forgiveness, Davis explains how people can make peace in relationships without necessarily forgiving past hurts. In addition to a special section called "Ideas for Reflection and Discussion," she includes a self-assessment quiz, "Are You Ready for Reconciliation? " Whether you want to reconcile a relationship that has ended, improve a relationship that is difficult or distant, or learn the skills you need for dealing with the inevitable conflicts we all face in life, this book will teach you to mend troubled relationships and find peace.

Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Addiction & Recovery

In this groundbreaking companion to The Courage to Heal, Laura Davis offers an inspiring, in-depth workbook that speaks to all women and men healing from the effects of child sexual abuse. The combination of checklists, writing and art Projects, open-ended questions and activities expertly guides the survivor through the healing process.
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<li> Survival Skills—Teaches survivors to create a safe, supportive environment, ask for help, deal with crisis periods, and choose therapy.</li> <li> Aspects Of Healing—Focuses on the healing process: gaining a capacity for hope, breaking silence, letting go of shame, turning anger into action, planning a confrontation, preparing for family contact, and affirming personal progress.</li> <li> Guidelines For Healing Sexually—Redefines the concept of "safe sex" and establishes healthy ground rules for sexual contact.</li>
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The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Parenting & Relationships

Perenial Library

"But what about me?" "Is it possible to go one day without dealing with the survivor's issues?" "Will we ever make love again?" "Will the survivor love me in the end?" "How do I know if I should throw in the towel?"
Based on in-depth interviews and her workshops for partners across the country, Laura Davis offers practical advice and encouragement to all partners—girlfriends, boyfriends, spouses, and lovers—trying to support the survivors in their lives while tending to their own needs along the way. She shows couples how to deepen compassion, improve communication, and develop an understanding of healing as a shared activity. Addressing partners' most important questions, Allies in Healing covers:
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<li> The Basics—answers common questions about sexual abuse.</li> <li> Allies in Healing—introduces key concepts of working and growing together.</li> <li> My Needs and Feelings—teaches partners to recognize, value, and express their own needs.</li> <li> Dealing with Crisis—includes strategies for handling suicidal feelings, regression, and hopelessness.</li> <li> Intimacy and Communication—offers practical advice on dealing with distancing, control, trust, and fighting.</li> <li> Sex—provides guidelines for coping with flashbacks, lack of desire, differences in sexual needs, and frustration.</li> <li> Family lssues—suggests a range of ideas for interacting with the survivor's family.</li> <li> Partners' Stories—explores the struggles, triumphs, and courage of eight partners.</li>
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Teen & Young Adult

For all women just beginning to heal from child sexual abuse, an introduction to the healing process based on the groundbreaking and national bestselling classic The Courage to Heal.

Beginning to Heal

Family Relationships

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I Thought We'd Never Speak Again: The Road from Estrangement to Reconciliation

The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused As a Child

Beginning to Heal (Revised Edition): A First Book for Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused As Children

The Courage to Heal - Third Edition - Revised and Expanded: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

I Thought We'd Never Speak Again: The Road from Estrangement to Reconciliation

Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child

Beginning to Heal