A Walk in the Woods: An Incest Survivor's Guide to Resolving the Past and Creating a Great Future - Softcover

O'Connor MCC, Nan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977395006 ISBN 13: 9780977395002

Publisher: Booklocker.com, 2006

Synopsis

O'Connor offers incest survivors and therapists a powerful and compassionate path to healing. Based on techniques of her own therapy and concepts and tools she uses as a Master Certified Coach, this process guides the reader toward recovery and beyond.

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About the Author

Nan O'Connor is a Master Certified Coach credentialed by the International Coach Federation. For the last decade she has helped hundreds of individuals begin where they are now to create a great future.

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INTRODUCTION At first I didn't know I was an incest survivor. Then I knew and couldn't say it. Couldn't make the words come out of the place they were lodged in my throat.

Then my job was to say it. "Incest Survivor."

I used to call it the "I" word, and had to learn to say the words. Later my job was to own it. "I am an incest survivor." It was my job to say it a hundred thousand times. It was my job to tell the truth of my childhood. Speak it out loud.

Later still, it was my job to move beyond having my total identity be that of an incest survivor. I am a woman who is many things, and one of those things is an incest survivor. I embrace all of me, including the very strong part that was forged through surviving incest.

Today it is my job, part of my life purpose, to help others on their journey of healing from incest. How? By offering them a map and a compass for one of the most powerful experiences anyone can ever have. By helping them move through the fear, and by assuring them of the beauty they will encounter, and the amazing growth they will achieve.

Recently, a woman I was just getting to know shared with me an incident of when she was sexually abused as a child. She wanted to know if it was incest. She wanted to know if that one incident--thirty years later--could be contributing to difficulties that kept cropping up in her life. I shared a little of my experience and knowledge.

A few days later she asked me to go for a walk in the woods to talk. She needed to talk to someone who knew answers to some of her questions. She needed a witness to her truth, and a guide for moving forward. At the end of our walk, she said my words had changed her life. She's on her journey now and she knows I walk beside her.

As my husband and I discussed this experience, he said something that will not leave my head. He said, "You know, Nan, there are millions of people who really need a walk in the woods with you. Find a way to walk with them."

If you are in the process of healing from incest, or if you desire to start the process, this book is here to help you. It's not theory. It's not therapy. It's the experience of one who has made the journey. It will help you find your way, and most importantly, you will not walk alone.

Edition details

• Publisher: Booklocker.com
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0977395006
• ISBN 13: 9780977395002
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168