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New Book Provides Escape from Cocoon of Past Childhood Abuse
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Added: 12/16/2003
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New Book Provides Escape from Cocoon of Past Childhood Abuse
Child abuse kills more children in America than accidental falls, choking on food, suffocation, or fires in the home. Every day, three children are murdered by a parent in the United States, many are disabled, and even more are seriously injured. But child abuse, including emotional abuse, is a concern that reaches far beyond the isolated world of its young victims. It stretches forward in time to color their future successes as friends, parents, spouses, workers and creative people.
But this need not be a sentence for lifelong struggle. Now there is a book that provides a first step toward healing, for adults who are striving to live with this legacy. It is a guide that invokes an ancient symbol of freedom and transformation: the butterfly. Flying Lessons For Butterflies: How to Free Yourself from the Effects of Abuse (Ladybug Press: October 2003; $14.95) is written by Sheila Whitman, MS, LPC, an experienced professional, and offers hope and guidance for survivors of emotional and physical abuse. This unique manual contains lessons, which shed light on how the readers' feelings came into being, and suggests how to proceed freely into self-acceptance and a life of fulfillment.
Flying Lessons for Butterflies suggests strategies for creating success which include:
- Exercises that clarify the early roots of barriers faced by many survivors
- Methods for dealing with everyday concerns to increase personal happiness
- Tools for understanding distorted perceptions that may blind a person to possibilities
- Education about assertiveness, courage, and setting personal boundaries
- Exploration of options for a life that is personally designed by the individual
- Creation of time and space to nurture individual abilities and dreams
Flying Lessons for Butterflies presents information in an easy-to-read, concise format, and is written in a warm and reassuring voice that can only come from one who truly understands. Readers will appreciate the underlying message that every individual has great value and can eventually soar to discover his or her best self. This message is affirmed by Dr. Mark S. Albini, of St. Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, CT, "Sheila's work has given survivors of abuse a clear, step-by-step plan for starting and completing the road to a more peaceful and healthy life."
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