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The Courage to Heal Audiobook Summary

Come to terms with your past while moving powerfully into the future

The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and a map of the healing journey to every woman who was sexually abused as a child–and to those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible.

Weaving together personal experience with professional knowledge, the authors provide clear explanations, practical suggestions, and support throughout the healing process. Readers will feel recognized and encouraged by hundreds of moving first-person stories drawn from interviews and the authors’ extensive work with survivors, both nationally and internationally.

This completely revised and updated 20th anniversary edition continues to provide the compassionate wisdom the book has been famous for, as well as many new features:

  • Contemporary research on trauma and the brain
  • An overview of powerful new healing tools such as imagery, meditation, and body-centered practices
  • Additional stories that reflect an even greater diversity of survivor experiences
  • The reassuring accounts of survivors who have been healing for more than twenty years
  • The most comprehensive, up-to-date resource guide in the field
  • Insights from the authors’ decades of experience

Cherished by survivors, and recommended by therapists and institutions everywhere, The Courage to Heal has often been called the bible of healing from child sexual abuse. This new edition will continue to serve as the healing beacon it has always been.

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The Courage to Heal Audiobook Narrator

Ellen Bass is the narrator of The Courage to Heal audiobook that was written by Ellen Bass

A pioneer in the field of healing from child sexual abuse, Ellen Bass currently teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University in Oregon. Her poetry books include Mules of Love and The Human Line.

About the Author(s) of The Courage to Heal

Ellen Bass is the author of The Courage to Heal

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The Courage to Heal Full Details

Narrator Ellen Bass
Length 25 hours 33 minutes
Author Ellen Bass
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date February 05, 2013
ISBN 9780062262899

Subjects

The publisher of the The Courage to Heal is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Abuse, Child Abuse, Family & Relationships

Additional info

The publisher of the The Courage to Heal is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062262899.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Nina

June 03, 2022

The Courage to Heal is an incredible book in its own way. It focuses on women survivors of child sexual abuse. What it does first of all is give these survivors a voice. Without falling into the trap of abstract academic language, it also is full of ways that can help healing. In the chapters, the authors give information and suggestions through the different stages, from trauma to healing. Part one (Taking stock taking care) deals primarily with recognizing the damage and using survivor skills to make it through the day. In part two of the book you find detailed information about the different stages of the healing process. Part three, called Changing Patterns, is all about building the survivor back up into a much more complete woman who might experience the whole emotional spectrum and be able to live a better life again. In part four you can find information for supporters, part five tells the stories of survivors. The last sections include poetry and a vast number of bibliographical entries, covering books, videos, online resources and organisations.What makes this book so incredible is the vast amount of information, combined with the tragic stories of survivors of child sexual abuse. Whether you are looking for self-assessment, advice on how to talk and how not to talk to a traumatized girl or woman, advice on healing, advice for family members and those willing to support survivors, or something else, you’ll probably find something to work with in The Courage to Heal. The topic of child sexual abuse is shocking, and the authors Ellen Bass and Laura Davis manage to express support and being real about the topic without sugar coating any of what is happening. Survivors sooner or later need a clear language to help them how to tackle trauma, and at the same time they need validation and support. Bass and Davis manage both. Thank you for this book.5 out of 5 stars

Jill Marie

July 25, 2011

This was the first book in my healing process and I read it twice in therapy and again afterwards!

Cody

November 28, 2007

Absolutely, completely indispensable to victims and survivors. This really has become the 'bible' and the 'life force' for so many and there's a lot of reasoning behind it. I've re-read this book countless times (probably upwards of ten?) and I continue to do so sporadically. This book helped save my life and the life of many others. I'm so glad that I found it when I did. I recommend it to so many during my volunteer work and they all just can't stop thanking me for introducing them to it.

Amanda

March 04, 2009

Great tool for survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Not to be taken lightly - this book will open doors for healing - but can also bring on unexpected emotions. Use in conjunction with professional counseling recommended.

Connie

July 09, 2015

I read this book almost 25 years ago and it transformed my life!!!! The painful process of reading and digesting it took a process of almost 6 months to a year and was an incredible journey!!! Finally, there were women who could help unlock the rage and anger from what had happened...had been forced upon me at age 7!! The swirling whirlpool of my existence which forever kept me from breaking free to healing and health was finally cracked and I could escape intact. Mind you, I was in my late 40s at the time.

Kate

July 12, 2009

A passionate book which helped me a great deal as well as my husband to know what I/we were facing in terms of the road ahead in my trauma recovery.There are well laid-out details on the stages of recovery, what to expect for both the survivor and the family members, stories for the survivor to relate to, and also identified things I could look for which would be counterproductive to healing.I was relieved to see clear, direct language on how to assess and get support on recovered memories. Many books are ambivalent on the subject, or give such an impartial response you are not sure whether to think you can trust your memories or not. This gives guidance on how to get support in assessing them, it doesn't engage in the controversy of whether they are true or not. Ultimately, this is up to the individual to sort out and to find the support they need to do so.

Amy

May 10, 2019

Wow. Just, wow. This book was absolutely incredible. Extremely helpful. Probably one of the best books out there on the subject. Glad to have read it. I wish it was mine to keep and not a library book though, because I’d love to look back at it from time to time. Oh well. I guess I can just check it out again sometime down the road.

Bridgett

February 12, 2010

This book was a very in-depth look at childhood sexual abuse in women and the different types of coping, reactions, problems that come up later in life, etc. There were a lot of first-hand accounts, including poems. There was also a section on partners of the abused. I found the information easy to read and thorough.

Linda

December 29, 2007

This is not a casual read book, which is probably pretty obvious from the title. It made me cry, think, and deal with a lot of painful memories I had as a child. This book is unbelievable. My therapist recommended this when I was going through my divorce. I learned a lot.

Leslie

April 16, 2015

This book helped me understand what was happening to me as I experienced unknown symptoms of sexual abuse. I also learned the steps to the healing process and did the writing exercises in the book. This helped me to cope and to make it as long as I did without having to go into the hospital. It made me feel normal when every thing around me felt abnormal.

M.

October 01, 2018

This was a difficult read and the start of a difficult journey, but I’m so grateful for this book.

Kat

September 10, 2010

I always thought this would be a little too woo-woo for me but it turns out to be a crazy helpful book for anyone recovering from child sexual abuse. Pretty impressive in its scope and power.

Jean Marie

June 18, 2011

Read it years ago and wanted to add to my list. A wonderful guide for those in need of healing and those who love and support a survivor. Full of first person stories and creative exercises. Ellen Bass is an effective creative writing teacher for all--whether a survivor or not.

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