Category: Abuse

The Survivor’s Guide to Sex

The Survivor’s Guide to Sex: How to Have an Empowered Sex Life After Child Sexual Abuse, by Staci Haines (1999)

From Amazon.com: “Move over abuse, and move in pleasure! The Survivor’s Guide to Sex is for all women—heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, partnered, and single—who want to delight in their own sexuality. Based on the author’s extensive training and experience in working with abuse survivors, The Survivor’s Guide to Sex offers a complete guide to sexual recovery:

* Pleasure and Desire—How to discover and fully own your desires on your own terms.
* Nonjudgmental support for all sexual styles and interests!
* Dissociation—Discover how you “checked out” to survive and how you can “check in” now for healing and your own sexual expression.
* Embodied Sex—No more grocery lists and wrestling matches with relics of the past! Learn how to be in your body during sex, present for yourself and your partners.
* Consent and Boundaries—The “yes,” “no,” and “maybe” of sex. How to say “yes” to your desires and develop boundaries to take care of yourself.
* Triggers—A sex life built around triggers becomes no sex life at all. Practical tools for healing through triggers while enjoying all the delights and complexities of a fully-embodied sex life.
* Sex Information—Chock full of sex-positive information on all aspects of sexual response, masturbation, and partner sex, tailored to the needs of survivors.
* Emotional Healing and Intimacy—Don’t settle for less than you want! Grant yourself permission to cultivate pleasure, sexual delight, and love.
* Plus Sex Guide Exercises, bibliography, resources, and index.”

The Childhood Experiences That Can Cut 20 Years Off Your Life

 

December 16, 2015

By Bill Frist, Contributor, covers global and domestic health care and health care reform

At Forbes.com

http://www.forbes.com/sites/billfrist/2015/12/16/the-childhood-experiences-that-can-cut-20-years-off-your-life/

Wounds That Won’t Heal

Wounds That Won’t Heal – The ACE Study (Preview)

CavalcadeProductions

Published on Apr 25, 2013

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), though well concealed, are unexpectedly common, and have a profound effect on adult health. In the 30-minute program previewed here, eight adult survivors of ACEs describe their childhood experiences and the effects later in life, including obesity, depression, and addictions. To learn more about Wounds That Won’t Heal and our other DVDs for trauma survivors, see our website, www.cavalcadeproductions.com , or call 800-345-5530.

Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology

Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal, by Donna Jackson Nakazawa. (2015)

A groundbreaking book showing the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and adult illnesses such as heart disease, autoimmune disease, and cancer—Childhood Disrupted also explains how to cope with these emotional traumas and even heal from them.

Your biography becomes your biology. The emotional trauma we suffer as children not only shapes our emotional lives as adults, it also affects our physical health, longevity, and overall wellbeing. Scientists now know on a bio-chemical level exactly how parents’ chronic fights, divorce, death in the family, being bullied or hazed, and growing up with a hypercritical, alcoholic, or mentally ill parent can leave permanent, physical “fingerprints” on our brains.

When we as children encounter sudden or chronic adversity, excessive stress hormones cause powerful changes in the body, altering our body chemistry. The developing immune system and brain react to this chemical barrage by permanently resetting our stress response to “high,” which in turn can have a devastating impact on our mental and physical health.

Donna Jackson Nakazawa shares stories from people who have recognized and overcome their adverse experiences, shows why some children are more immune to stress than others, and explains why women are at particular risk. Groundbreaking in its research, inspiring in its clarity, Childhood Disrupted explains how you can reset your biology—and help your loved ones find ways to heal.

How Adverse Childhood Experiences Affect Adult Illness

How Adverse Childhood Experiences Affect Adult Illness

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Published on Aug 5, 2015

Donna Jackson Nakazawa, author of ‘Childhood Disrupted’ discusses how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) affect adult illness such as heart disease, autoimmune disease and cancer.

Childhood Abuse Survivors Experiences of Parenting

Trigger Points: Childhood Abuse Survivors Experiences of Parenting, by Joyelle Brandt & Dawn Daum. (2015)

Trigger Points Anthology is a collection of writing by parents who are survivors of childhood abuse.