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Bullying. Essa expressão da língua inglesa começou a fazer parte do vocabulário de muitos pais e educadores. Vista como uma prática inocente e comum durante décadas, só recentemente lhe foi dada a devida atenção. Em vista das sérias consequências que pode provocar no processo de formação da criança e suas repercussões na vida adulta, o bullying tem sido objeto de vários estudos em todo o mundo.

Read by the author, Ginger Dean. A breakup can feel like the end of the world – but what if it could serve as the start of a better you? Discover how to heal your heart and thrive in all aspects of your life. Too often, conversations about toxic relationships have revolved around them: their...

A necessary, reassuring guide for all sexual assault survivors in need of immediate emotional and legal support post assault, and in the months and years after. We Are the Evidence is the first comprehensive resource for survivors of sexual assault. Written with conviction and compassion by...

Sohaila Abdulali was the first Indian survivor to speak out about rape. Gang-raped as a teenager in Bombay and indignant at the deafening silence on the issue in India, she wrote an article for a woman's magazine questioning how we perceive rape and rape victims. Thirty years later, she saw the...

Shame is one of the most destructive of human emotions. If you suffered childhood physical or sexual abuse, you may experience such intense feelings of shame that it almost seems to define you as a person. In order to begin healing, it's important for you to know that it wasn't your fault. In this gentle guide, therapist and childhood abuse expert Beverly Engel presents a mindfulness and compassion-based therapeutic approach to help you overcome the debilitating shame that keeps you tied to the past.

Rachael Denhollander's voice was heard around the world when she spoke out to end the most shocking scandal in US gymnastics history. The first victim to publicly accuse Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics team doctor who abused hundreds of young athletes, Rachael now reveals her full story for the first time. How did Nassar get away with it for so long? How did Rachael and the other survivors finally stop him and bring him to justice? And how can we protect the vulnerable in our own families, churches, and communities? 

In 1964, American judge Potter Stewart famously said, ‘I can’t define pornography, but I know it when I see it.’ Over fifty years later, the reverberations of these words are still being felt across the world. Be it proposed porn bans, religious morality or women’s rights, the assumption...

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.

In How to Spot a Dangerous Man Before You Get Involved, Sandra L. Brown, MA, describes eight types of dangerous men, their specific traits, and characteristics. She explores victim's stories that tell how they came in contact with each type of dangerous man and their outcome. Brown then presents how to develop a defense strategy - how to spot, avoid, or rid themselves of this type of dangerous man. With these tools, Brown shows women how they can spot and avoid patterns of engagement with dangerous men.

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.

It could begin with blood-soaked headlines—gang-lords and hitmen, brothels and drugs, kidnappings and murder attempts. All of that is true but that’s not where this story begins. It begins with a child. A little girl raised inside a world of crime, control, and silence. Abused and betrayed...

The first in a high-adrenaline psychological crime series from bestselling author Diane Saxon, introducing Detective Sergeant Jenna Morgan. Responding to reports of deadly screams in the Ironbridge Gorge, Detective Sergeant Jenna Morgan is first on the scene to investigate. As the search...

From the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman. She had witnessed the miserable fate of her grandmother and three aunts, and wished she had been born a boy. As a feisty teenager in Kabul, she was outraged when the Russians invaded her country. After she made a public show of defiance, she had to flee the country for her life. A new life of freedom seemed within her grasp, but her father arranged a traditional marriage to a fellow Afghan, who turned out to be a violent man....

One ordinary spring morning in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thordis Elva kisses her son and partner good-bye before boarding a plane to do a remarkable thing: fly 7,000 miles to South Africa to confront the man who raped her when she was just 16. Meanwhile, in Sydney, Australia, Tom Stranger nervously embarks on an equally life-changing journey to meet Thordis, wondering whether he is worthy of this milestone.

From a profoundly troubled childhood comes unflinchingly honest stories of abuse, neglect, violence, isolation, and blatant racism. Through the Storm of Early Trauma is not told from a place of anger or resentment. Instead, it speaks with the voice of hope - that others who have lived such stories, and who are living those stories today, will find their own inner strength to seek the help they need and deserve.

Stijn Avondrood, een jongen die altijd als waardeloos werd beschouwd, vindt zijn leven veranderd wanneer hij na een ontslag bij een krantenverspreider in de Betuwe aanklopt.

Seit ich denken kann, schlug, vergewaltigte und misshandelte mich mein Vater. Mein älterer Bruder Branco tat es ihm gleich. Er machte dasselbe mit mir und meiner jüngeren Schwester Jenny. Wir lebten und wuchsen im Ghetto auf. Ein Ort, an dem zarte Seelen, die das Gesetz der Gesetzlosen nicht akzeptieren wollen, tagtäglich ums nackte Überleben kämpfen, um nicht zu verrecken.

A hugely inspirational and practical guide for those dealing with trauma or wondering how to make a difference. Harrison James knows pain – but he also knows purpose. As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, Harrison transformed his darkest experiences into a powerful force for change, taking...

Childhood sexual abuse (or child sexual abuse/CSA) is not only an assault on the body—it is an assault on the mind and on the spirit. It is an insult to the victim’s integrity, her self-esteem, his very being. Besides imposing a significantly higher risk of conditions like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sexual exploitation, intimate partner violence, suicidality, substance abuse, and learning & educational difficulties, the most devastating consequence of childhood sexual abuse is shame.

To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream, named one of Folio's Top Women in US Media and accruing further awards for the magazines she was editing. In reality, she was rapidly skidding towards a mental health crisis that would land her in a locked psychiatric ward as her past caught up with her. As well as growing up in a household in poverty, Terri endured sexual and physical abuse at the hands of a number of her mother's partners.