This book examines the issues surrounding sexual abuse while looking to God for restoration and peace. - Includes information about false memory issues- Indexed for easy reference- Also available: The Wounded Heart Workbook

    Then she gave her life to God—and He made something beautiful of it. No Place to Cry is the story of her struggle and her victory.Dorie knows what it is like to be neglected emotionally, to be abused physically, and to search desperately but to find no place to cry. She also knows of the blessing that came when she was thirteen—a Christian student visited her orphanage and introduced her to a God who loves even the unloved.Having been shunned by her parents "like an unwanted dog," and mercilessly abused in several foster homes, Dorie clung to the unconditional love of God that so many take for granted.Just as God gave her a tender heart to forgive her abusers, He also gave her the strength to reveal her past in No Place to Cry, the sequel to the bestseller Dorie: The Girl Nobody Loved. Through her candor, you will gain insight into the trauma of emotional and sexual abuse, as well as knowledge of potential steps to recovery for those afflicted by abuse.

    E. Sue Blume shows how incest is often at the root of such problems as depression, sexual and eating disorders, drug and alcohol abuse, and phobias and panic disorders. Using this information and the author's guidance, survivors can identify themselves, develop alternative, nondestructive survival techniques and begin again on a new path toward a rich and empowered life.

    Now there is help in this compassionate sourcebook. Bevery Engel, a marriage, family, and child therapist, guides you through a step-by-step recovery process to help you heal the damage done in the past.

    It gives practical examples of how they can be invited to discover more sensitive, respectful and personally rewarding ways of relating to others.