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Traumatic Cognitive Dissonance, when understood, can be overcome. And that’s what this book is for—for you to gain the tools and information so that you’ll be able to reunite with your true sense of self and to move forward in your life with a renewed sense of joy. After all you’ve been through, you deserve it.

In this classic work of developmental psychology, renowned psychiatrist and the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You? reveals how trauma affects children—and outlines the path to recovery How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? Child...

“A thrilling page-turner about the pursuit of justice” (New York Post), this is the definitive story of the case against Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the corrupt system that supported them, told in thrilling detail by the lawyer who has represented their victims for more than a...

“I feel it’s necessary to disclose certain details of my story so readers can begin to grasp how completely God can change people, how deeply He can reach into a damaged soul and restore it, and how thoroughly He can heal a broken heart. ” - From the Introduction Joyce Meyer grew up in...

You thought he was your safe place. But somewhere along the way, he became the reason you stopped feeling safe inside yourself. This book is for the woman who gave everything to someone who slowly dimmed her light. You didn’t imagine it. The slow silences. The subtle digs. The confusion that made you question your own heart. You were loving him—but losing yourself. And now, you’re left holding the pieces, wondering when it all turned. In He Was My Safe Place. Then He Became My Trigger, Sienna Thorne guides you through the quiet unraveling of self that happens inside emotionally ...

Diego and his siblings live in desperate poverty, but nobody seems to notice or care as they come close to starving, scouring food banks to survive. But he’s wrong–someone has noticed him. County Lines gang members can see his vulnerability. With an absent father, alcoholic mother and dependent young siblings, Diego is the perfect mark.

Now an HBO documentary series streaming on HBO Max. One of the Best Books of the Year Time * NPR * Washington Post * Bloomberg News * Chicago Tribune * Chicago Public Library * Fortune * Los Angeles Times * E! News * The Telegraph * Apple * Library Journal In this newly updated edition of the...

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller—Jaycee Dugard’s raw and powerful memoir, her own story of being kidnapped in 1991 and held captive for more than eighteen years. In the summer of June of 1991, I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother that loved me. I was...

Why Does Trauma Bonding Feel Like Love Why You Stay, Why It Hurts, and How to Detach and Recover You don’t stay because you don’t see the damage. You stay because leaving feels like losing yourself. Trauma bonding is not weakness. It is not naïveté. And it is not love. It is a psychological attachment formed through intensity, inconsistency, and emotional survival. This book explores why intelligent, self-aware people remain trapped in relationships that erode their sense of reality - and why logic alone cannot free them. Through deeply human examples and precise psychological ...

Dave Pelzer was brutally abused as a child by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. She considered him a slave - no longer a boy, but an "it". He was physically and mentally tortured and starved. The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare he experienced behind closed doors, and his father was aware of the abuse but turned to denial and alcohol. The abuse only fueled a determination to survive and become stronger.

For listeners of I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, and The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, a candid and heart-wrenching memoir about child abuse, family secrets, and the healing that begins once the truth is revealed and the past is confronted. Andrea is four and a half the first time her father, David, gives her a bath. Although she is young, she knows there is something strange about the way he is touching her. When her mother, Marlene, walks in to check on them, she howls and crumples to the floor—and when she opens her eyes, she is blind.

AN INSTANT INDIE, USA TODAY, AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! “The world knows that Carroll prevailed in her gazillion-dollar lawsuits against Trump for defamation and sexual abuse. But hearing her describe that courtroom battle in her own smoky, mirth-filled drawl is an experience too delicious...

Behind the Facemask is a raw, unfiltered memoir of survival, addiction, anger, and the brutal work of becoming a present father and a decent man. Anthony James Hodel grew up learning to keep his guard up and his fists ready. Success came fast—business wins, money, attention—but the past never let go. Rage detonated relationships. Addiction stole time he’ll never get back. Courtrooms, custody battles, and nights he can’t forget pushed him to the edge. This book is the full reckoning. Hodel tells the truth about shame, trauma, and the way pain finds pain.

A victim of her mother’s Munchausen by proxy and child abuse survivor, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard’s unique and controversial case made headlines across the world. Now, she’s finally free to start living her life on her terms—and to tell her own story as only she can.

En este libro terrible y conmovedor, Dafna Viniegra comparte los testimonios de mujeres y hombres que buscan romper con los ciclos de dolor originados en la infancia, de esas personas que, al reconocer su pasado, intentan reconstruirse y amarse con todas sus fuerzas para encontrar la paz.

"It’s a dark story that forced me to think more expansively about what constitutes a cult." —The New York Times' Ernesto Londoño "Although this is Mestyanek Young’s first time narrating, listeners will appreciate hearing this deeply personal story told by the author herself. Share with...

A powerful and personal examination of our most persistent and dangerous misunderstandings, myths and stereotypes about sexual harassment and assault In 2017, Brooke Nevils made a confidential HR complaint about one of the most powerful and familiar faces in media. Twenty-four hours later, the...

If you're constantly feeling on edge, forever working to appease your spouse to little avail and feel like you're constantly being chipped away at with their abusive behavior, then I can understand how emotionally shattering it feels to live this way. If, in the same breath, it breaks your heart to even consider leaving them because you can't imagine life without them, then I can understand that feeling too - because I was trauma bonded to my abusive ex.

The FOG is an acronym that stands for "Fear, Obligation, and Guilt". These three emotions are often how narcissists, sociopaths, and other types of emotional manipulators go about controlling others.

Charlietta’s story begins in the chaos—raised amid addiction, instability, and the piercing silence of unmet needs. But this is not just a survival tale. It’s a reckoning, a curriculum, and a call to reimagine how trauma, resilience, and reform are taught.