You Are Safe Now: A Survivor’s Guide to Listening to Your Gut, Healing from Abuse PB

You Are Safe Now: A Survivor’s Guide to Listening to Your Gut, Healing from Abuse, and Living in Freedom is for Survivors of abuse, particularly for those from religious contexts. Also, therapists, counsellors, and pastors, or anyone who loves and wants to support a survivor of abuse and wants to better understand the complexities of trauma and abuse and walk alongside those who have been abused.
A seasoned author and masterful storyteller, Tricia Lott Williford encountered the public trauma of the death of her husband, but she held quietly the private trauma that happened at the same time: grooming, manipulation, sexual abuse, and spiritual abuse by a person of trust. Tricia and her therapist, Jana Richardson, LPC, have written a resource to help others recognize the veiled dynamics of abuse, where it starts, how it escalates, and how survivors can break free and find freedom. Peer-reviewed by mental health therapists, You Are Safe Now offers a survivor’s firsthand story of abuse in the church including
• An explanation of the nature of abusers and their common tactics.
• Compassionate, nuanced discussion of trauma responses.
• Research, examples, and statistics to identify abusive dynamics, predation, grooming, and psychological manipulation; and
• Practical tools and resources to facilitate recovery.
• For survivors of abuse, counsellors, therapists, pastors who treat survivors, and those who support survivors in their healing, You Are Safe Now is an indispensable resource