This is a comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who was sexually abused as a child–and those who care about her. Although the effects of abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possibly. The authors weave personal experience with professional knowledge to show the reader how she can come to terms with her past while moving powerfully into the future. They provide clear explanations, practical suggestions, a map of the healing journey, and many moving first-person examples of the recovery process drawn from their interviews with hundreds of survivors. (BOOK)