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Tech executive, business consultant, and recording artist Sabe Anderson delivers a no-holds-barred account of his spiral into hell, and how he clawed his way out again with the support of family and the women who refused to give up on him. His story dives into bipolar disorder, sexual abuse, and addiction and the financial, mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional hardships that came in their wake.

Knowledge is power. Consent Laid Bare is a conversation starter that will help young women feel less alone, less likely to feel pressured into sexual encounters that they don't want, less ashamed if they find themselves in a tricky situation, and more inclined to hold their perpetrators to account in the moment and afterwards. It will help young men understand that there is a point where pressuring behaviour becomes criminal.

You can not change what happened, but you can change how you are dealing with it. You are allowed to change! What are the effects on a person who suffered sexual violence, sexual abuse? What are the effects on family and society? Why is sexual abuse and sexual violence still one of the last taboos in our society? Michael Reh, a survivor himself, gives answers to these and other Questions regarding this topic. The reknown author talks about how trauma can develop, and how survivors and society can deal with dismissal conscious and subconscious patterns.

Un imprenditore multimilionario, con il tocco di re Mida quando si tratta di portare al successo innovative startup digitali, viene arrestato per reati che vanno dalla violenza sessuale al sequestro di persona, dalle lesioni allo spaccio di droga, compiuti in un attico nel centro di Milano o in una villa di Ibiza, teatro di feste sfrenate a cui partecipavano vip dello spettacolo, professionisti affermati, celebrità assortite e modelle giovanissime.

Emma Healey just wants to be a writer, but that’s more a journey than a job, and the journey isn’t free. As a teenager, she begins her adventures in precarious employment when introduced by her actor/playwright mother to the role of “standardized patient,” performing illness as a living training dummy for medical students. In university, she joins a creative writing program, cultivating a poet’s interest in language while learning lessons about the literary world that have more to do with survival than art.

A deeply affecting memoir of grief, survival, and hope, Saving Five details Nguyen's winding journey of recovery and action, which ultimately led her to create the Sexual Assault Survivors' Bill of Rights, one of the only unanimously passed laws in the history of the United States. Both a tribute to resilience and a lesson on healing, Saving Five is an inspirational story for the ages.

Skating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society can change the narrative on sexual assault and violence.

Fuelled by methamphetamines and deviant motives, nothing was off limits for James Daveggio and Michelle Michaud. Not even their own children. Living out of a specially rigged minivan (a mobile torture chamber that included ropes, hooks, curling irons, duct tape, etc), this cold-blooded murdering duo kidnapped, tortured, raped and killed young girls from Reno, Nevada, to Sacramento, California.

When your innocence crumbles because of sexual trauma or regret, damage is inevitable—defeat isn't. Life took your innocence, but shame is snatching everything that remains. Maybe someone took your choice, or perhaps you regret the choices you made, but with dysfunctional sexual incidents on the rise, so are the numbers of women living with the shame incurred from these detrimental experiences increasing as well.

In 2009, college sophomore and track star Monika Korra was grabbed by three men on her way home from a party and brutally raped. But within hours of being released, Monika resolved that she would not be a victim - she was going to be a survivor. In this extraordinary story of recovery, Monika shares how she made herself whole again after the attack, describing the combination of mental, spiritual, and physical work that helped her heal.

This is a workbook geared towards helping people that have experienced abuse work through the deception, silence, and secrecy. It is an instrument to reassure victims that they are loved by God and have a purpose to flourish on Earth. It gives examples and ways of getting help that will lead to recovery and healing.

Desde que el Caso Karadima se transformara en uno de los más significativos casos de abuso en la iglesia chilena, el camino que han seguido tres de sus víctimas ha estado rodeado de dificultades. Sin embargo, desde que el papa Francisco los recibiera en el Vaticano, ocho años después, esa historia (y la historia de la iglesia chilena) ha tenido un giro orientado a la búsqueda de reparación por los daños causados. Esta es su historia.

On the fourth day of what Lara Naughton thought would be two weeks of bliss in Belize, she was kidnapped and assaulted by a man pretending to be a cabdriver. Held in the depths of the tropical forest - alone with the jaguar man - she found that compassion was her only defense.

In 2015, Toufah Jallow was a 19-year-old dreaming of a scholarship. Encouraged by her mother, she entered a presidential competition designed to identify and support the country’s smart young women, and she won. Which brought her to the attention of Yahya Jammeh, the country’s dictator, who styled himself as a pious yet progressive protector of women.

In Generation F, the young award-winning journalist Virginia Trioli offered a vigorous, incisive and compelling argument for the ongoing need for feminism, while exploring her own bewilderment and anger. She described the real state of sexual harassment, violence, the workplace and the law in Australia: how most women just copped it, but those who felt able to confront it needed all the support they could get. Now - as women around the world speak up about how sexual harassment has destroyed their work, families and lives - Trioli revisits that cultural moment.

Do you have a friend or loved one that is suffering from the aftermath of rape, abuse, or trauma? Unsure of how to help? Here are some things you can do, questions you can ask, and things to keep in mind. Written by a former Safe Horizon employee who holds certificates in Child Sexual Abuse, Teen Relationship Abuse, Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence & The Criminal Justice System etc. From the creator of Secrets Unleashed Game: Talk, Play, Heal.

The Prince is an arresting portrait of faith, loyalty and ambition, set against a backdrop of terrible suffering and an ancient institution in turmoil. The leading Catholic in the nation and spiritual adviser to Tony Abbott, Cardinal George Pell has played a key role in the greatest challenge to face his church for centuries: the scandal of child sex abuse by priests. In The Prince, David Marr investigates the man and his career: how did he rise through the ranks? What does he stand for? How does he wield his authority?

Writing the story in this audiobook was a responsibility that I took on my shoulders to, in a classic way, denounce the sexual abuses against girls, kids, and very young teenagers around the world. I needed courage to deal with the vivid but also melancholic facts that I penned down in this audiobook. My famous collaborator, during the creation of this audiobook, was my memory, which didn’t make me dig or stretch it too much in order to remember most of the facts and events that I experienced with my friend Yvalia.

Detrás de muchos príncipes se esconden lobos feroces. Blancanieves se lanzó en brazos de un amor que creyó perfecto y que la acabó anulando; la Bella Durmiente cayó en un sueño forzado y, cuando despertó, había sufrido una violación; a Ariel le arrancaron una parte de su cuerpo bajo el pretexto de alcanzar la pureza; Caperucita fue a las fiestas de San Fermín y fue violada por cinco lobos, la Manada de Pamplona. Todos ellos son testimonios reales.

In May 2006 Jacob Zuma was found not guilty of the rape of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo - better known as Khwezi - in the Johannesburg High Court. Another nail was driven into the coffin of South Africa's fight against sexual violence. Vilified by Zuma's many supporters, Khwezi was forced to flee South Africa and make a life in the shadows, first in Europe and then back on the African continent.