Books I Found Helpful For Healing After Abuse
I was sexually abused around 1963 by two teenaged boys in my neighborhood when I was four years old. My mother, who was also sexually abused as a child by someone in her neighborhood, struggled with depression and rotated in and out of mental hospitals until Ronald Reagan cut the budget for most of them. She was too wrapped up in her pain to notice that I was gone. And it was the days when people were much more relaxed about allowing their children to roam the neighborhood unsupervised. I did not understand what the boys did to me, but I knew it was bad because I had at least been told that these were my private parts. I knew, whatever it was they did to me, they weren't supposed to do it to me. When I was six I told my mother what the boys did to me. She said, "That's were babies come from," but she didn't do anything. Her nonchalant response gave me the message that what happened to me was not significant. This is a short book list Begin by com...