Letters To Survivors: Words of Comfort for Women Recovering from Rape
Women from around the world have bravely chosen to share their stories, wisdom, and advice from their journeys of healing. Letters came from women ages 18 to 65, from America, England, Canada, and Australia!
Each woman wrote a personal letter from the heart to all "future survivors" - other women who have endured the trauma of rape or sexual abuse.
Years in the making, this book will save lives. It offers a message of hope without being preachy or superficial. It is not triggering or explicit, and can be read by a person at any stage of healing, teen or adult. The artwork is uplifting, and the words are gentle and poignant without trivializing the reality of trauma and recovery. Letters To Survivors is a book that can be given as a gift, offered to clients in therapy, or distributed by crisis centers and university counseling programs.
In fact, Letters To Survivors has been selected by many rape crisis centers, counseling programs, military bases, American Indian tribal services, and campuses as their PRIMARY resource for clients, and provide a copy to every person they serve! One program even held a public reading of "Letters" by volunteer Survivors as part of their annual Sexual Assault Awareness Month campaign!
Women from around the world have bravely chosen to share their stories, wisdom, and advice from their journeys of healing. Letters came from women ages 18 to 65, from America, England, Canada, and Australia!
Each woman wrote a personal letter from the heart to all "future survivors" - other women who have endured the trauma of rape or sexual abuse.
Years in the making, this book will save lives. It offers a message of hope without being preachy or superficial. It is not triggering or explicit, and can be read by a person at any stage of healing, teen or adult. The artwork is uplifting, and the words are gentle and poignant without trivializing the reality of trauma and recovery. Letters To Survivors is a book that can be given as a gift, offered to clients in therapy, or distributed by crisis centers and university counseling programs.
In fact, Letters To Survivors has been selected by many rape crisis centers, counseling programs, military bases, American Indian tribal services, and campuses as their PRIMARY resource for clients, and provide a copy to every person they serve! One program even held a public reading of "Letters" by volunteer Survivors as part of their annual Sexual Assault Awareness Month campaign!
Each letter is presented as a complete work of art, and the reader can see the original handwriting of the women who have written their words of hope. The artwork of each letter is accompanied by text for easy readbility. Every page is edge-to-edge color:
Topics addressed by the letters include:
Coping with feelings of suicide after rape
Self-injury and body issues
How to identify toxic "allies" along the way
How to know when you are really healing
How to find other Survivors for support
Coping with spiritual crisis and anger at God after rape
What DOESN'T work to heal!
Emotional self-care and self-respect
If rape or abuse was your first "sexual" experience
The decision to report the rape or not How to handle conflict with your therapist during recovery
Mistakes these Survivors made in their efforts to heal
Through it all, the letter-writers are honest about the struggles and turmoil of this journey.
What if you really aren't alone?
What if you knew there is hope that things can get better?
What if you could meet other amazing women who have been through it too, and they could share their hope, advice, wit,
and wisdom with you?
Letters To Survivors offers you that.
Women from around the world, from teen to elder, have gathered to give you their personal messages of hope after rape.
That makes Letters To Survivors one of the most uplifting,
life-changing books you may ever read.
What if you knew there is hope that things can get better?
What if you could meet other amazing women who have been through it too, and they could share their hope, advice, wit,
and wisdom with you?
Letters To Survivors offers you that.
Women from around the world, from teen to elder, have gathered to give you their personal messages of hope after rape.
That makes Letters To Survivors one of the most uplifting,
life-changing books you may ever read.