Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love is a Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse

Author Laura Davis, based on interviews and workshops, offers practical advice and encouragement to partners supporting survivors while prioritizing their needs. She teaches couples to deepen compassion, improve communication, and understand healing as a shared process. 

Allies in Healing covers:

- The Basics: Common questions about sexual abuse.

- Allies in Healing: Key concepts for working together.

- My Needs and Feelings: Recognizing, valuing, and expressing needs.

- Dealing with Crisis: Strategies for handling suicidal feelings, regression, and hopelessness.

- Intimacy and Communication: Dealing with distancing, control, trust, and fighting.

- Sex: Coping with flashbacks, lack of desire, sexual needs, and frustration.

- Family Issues: Ideas for interacting with the survivor’s family.- Partners’ Stories: Struggles, triumphs, and courage of eight partners.

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