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Subtitle: And Other Tales for Childhood’s Survivors This is an anthology of fairy tales retold for adults, with the scary bits left in, and also the bits about resilience and survival. Yes, her father cut off her arms, but then the armless maiden rescues herself and her child through quick wits as well as magic. The stories vary [...] CROWHEART: becoming unwounded, a memoir of transformation Recommended by: Keelin Anderson To tell her story of healing from incest and emotional abuse, Keelin Anderson weaves together daily narrative, fiction, quotes, tarot readings, and dreams, all in present tense. As I read, I saw places where our paths have overlapped, and places where they have diverged. We have both struggled [...] Subtitle: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith Recommended by: Reading Martha Beck’s older books I first read this years ago and loved it. I came back to it while writing a (forthcoming) article about spiritual abuse and faith. Since I last read it, I read her newer book “Steering by Starlight” and saw [...] Recommended by: rushthatspeaks This is Margaux Fragoso’s matter-of-fact memoir of growing up in Union City, New Jersey with an angry father who is a jeweler, a mentally ill mother who is often hospitalized, and a very complicated relationship with a pedophile, Peter. I skipped whole chapters in the middle of this book, unable to read the detailed, oily [...] Subtitle: Therapy for Child Abuse Survivors in Family and Social Context Recommended by: Dr. Kathleen Young This is an academic book, written in precise psychological language, containing enough material for a semester course. Startlingly compassionate insights into complex trauma and prolonged childhood abuse (abbreviated PCA) are built into a treatment model that focuses on the family context [...] Recommended by: a client. Geneen Roth has written several books about overcoming compulsive eating by removing external rules around food and listening to one’s own body instead. She also talks about the source of compulsive eating – not an internal lack of control, but a survival strategy to overcome the lack of external control in childhood. In [...] Recommended by: Tess Alfonsin A hard-edged book for teens that takes on multiple tough issues: Children’s cruelty to each other for being fat or disfigured While I applaud the author’s courage in addressing all these important issues, I think the book would have [...] A mix of personal memoir, client stories, and self-help advice, this book compassionately details the effects of having a narcissistic mother and shows a pathway for healing. Narcissism – extreme self-absorbtion and inability to empathize with others – occurs on a spectrum from a few narcissistic traits to full-blown Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Women with these traits [...] Recommended by: Emma McCreary With warmth and care, Muller describes some of the outcomes of an abusive childhood, or “family of sorrow,” and some spiritual tools that can bring healing. Near the beginning of the book, he proposes an exercise that resonated deeply with me. (Emphasis added.) [F]or a single day: Resolve to go [...] 22 year old Ashley Rhodes-Courter’s articulate, harrowing memoir of her childhood in the Florida foster care system. I read it in one sitting, pausing to cry in a few places. The three little words aren’t what you think. She has a journalist’s eye for detail and a poet’s eye for intensity, conveying a child’s [...] |
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