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In this classic work of developmental psychology, renowned psychiatrist and the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You? reveals how trauma affects children—and outlines the path to recovery How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? Child...

The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend. Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t around much. She just didn’t understand...

Do you feel confused, frustrated, or empty after being around your mother? Are you riddled with self-doubt, unsure of how your mother really feels about you? Do you find her reactions to your achievements or accomplishments leave you feeling like a failure? Do you feel suppressed, controlled, and like rejection is a feeling you're constantly battling with?

Often the characteristics of a narcissistic mother can be brushed off as her being "difficult" or "overbearing". In reality, the narcissistic mother hides many damaging behaviors that are a very real form of childhood abuse. This can be difficult for adult children of narcissistic mothers to come to terms with and comprehend, especially with the term narcissistic being such a broad term for a complex type of emotional abuse.

An urgent argument that child sexual abuse is preventable, not inevitable—and that we are the first generation with the tools to stop it One in five children will experience sexual abuse before their eighteenth birthday. It happens in every country, every state, every city, every neighborhood...

This book is more than just a book of child abuse stories. The victims of child sexual abuse are one out of four girls and one out of seven boys (World Health Organization). A majority of the offenders are people they know and trust like their family members.

Love Is the Answer, God Is the Cure is the story of Aimee Cabo, who was in the Miami news for almost five years from 1989 to 1994 in a case the media named “The Case from Hell”. This sexual abuse case pitted her and her sister against her parents, who denied all culpability. As she fought court battles, poverty, abuse, and addiction, Aimee always turned to love and to God. This is the story of a woman who had all the odds against her and how she persevered to find true love and form a family that could withstand anything.

What Happens in This House Stays in This House tells the story of Sheree Wallace's troubled childhood. She is writing this to give listeners, especially those who work with children, a better understanding of what both Black and Muslim children can experience growing up. In this first book of three, she tells of her life from one of her earliest memories to age 13. Books two and three will address her teen and early adult years. It is not a light book, but one will root for Sheree as she navigates through the challenges life hands her.