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

Young children don’t have the cognitive development to understand that parental misbehavior and failings have nothing to do with them. In general, the earlier the touch deprivation, the more devastating it is.

If you’ve been working this process, if you are on this journey of healing, you know that it is very hard work. It is major reconstruction. We are reworking ourselves on so many levels from the hardwiring of the limbic brain to our core beliefs, from our self-concept to how we relate to others, from the anxiety in our chest to our ability to love,

Physical or sexual abuse by an attachment figure…

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Trauma, whether it is the result of something done to you or something you yourself have done, almost always makes it difficult to engage in intimate relationships. After you have experienced something so unspeakable, how do you learn to trust yourself or anyone else again? Or, conversely, how can you surrender to an intimate relationship after you