| As an adult have you experienced-but not
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| | with the healing process of wounds,
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| limited to the following?
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| | punching, slapping, picking skin, pulling
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| - Little or no memory of childhood-age 3
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| | hair, bloodletting, tattooing, piercing
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| to 12
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| | - Wearing baggy clothes or clothes a size
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| - Trouble with relationships-on the job,
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| | or two sizes too large
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| in your family,
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| | - Aversion to opposite sex-including
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| - Low self-esteem,
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| | homosexuality/lesbian
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| - Panic attacks-mild to severe,
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| | - Use of pornography-print, video
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| - Anxiety,
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| | - Enjoy peep shows, topless dancers,
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| - Phobias,
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| | - Become a porn star or pimp,
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| - Depression,
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| | - Sex offenders-male and female
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| - Inability to trust or trusting
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| | Suggested Reading:
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| indiscriminately,
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| | - Heal Your Body, Louise L. Hay
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| - alcohol/drug abuse,
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| | - The Courage to Heal, Ellen Bass and
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| - Obsessive compulsive behavior,
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| | Laura Davis
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| - Nightmares of being chased, trapped or
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| | - Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest
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| surreal,
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| | and Its Aftereffects in Women, E. Sue
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| - Sensory flashes-unable to identify
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| | Blume
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| images,
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| | - Allies in Healing: When the Person
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| - Insomnia,
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| | You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child
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| - Suicidal thoughts or attempts,
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| | Laura Davis
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| - A sense of going crazy or feeling
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| | - Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's
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| unreal compared to others
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| | Betrayal of the Child, Alice Miller
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| - Shame, guilt,
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| | - Breaking Down the Walls of Silence:
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| - Sense of underlying humiliation,
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| | The Liberating Experience of Facing
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| - Baseless crying,
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| | Painful Truth Alice Miller
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| - Angry outbursts/rage seemingly for no
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| | - The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood
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| reason,
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| | Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness
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| - Inability to recognize feelings,
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| | Alice Miller, et al
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| - Mood swings,
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| | - Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood
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| - Emotional shut down,
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| | Injuries, Alice Miller
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| - Numbing or zoning out,
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| | - Trauma, Amnesia and the Denial of
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| - Arthritis/joint pain,
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| | Abuse, Robert Falconer, et al., eds.
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| - Diagnosis of ADD or ADHD,
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| | - Victims No Longer: Men Recovering from
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| - Labeled an 'airhead'
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| | Incest, Mike Lew
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| - Chronic/acute fear,
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| | - Wounded Boys, Heroic Men: A Men's Guide
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| - Headaches/migraines,
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| | to Recovering from Child Abuse Daniel
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| - Eating disorders-anorexia, bulimia,
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| | Sonkin
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| obesity,
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| | - Broken Boys/Mending Men: Recovery from
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| - PMS,
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| | Child Sexual Abuse, Stephen GrubmanBlack
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| - Vaginismus,
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| | - Female Sexual Abuse of Children,
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| - Gastrointestinal/gynecological
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| | Michele Eliott, ed.
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| disorders,
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| | - The Last Secret: Daughters Sexually
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| - Chronic fatigue,
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| | Abused by Mothers, Bobbie Rosencrans
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| - MS,
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| | If you have experienced one or more of
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| - Fibromyalgia,
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| | these 'symptoms' you could be a physical
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| - Lupus
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| | or sexual abuse survivor.
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| - Chronic back pain-L3, L4 and/or L5
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| | Healing the emotional wounds of physical
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| region
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| | or sexual abuse is possible. Talk
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| - Cancer-predominately-vaginal, cervical
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| | therapy, antidepressants and/or
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| or ovarian in women; testicular, prostate
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| | antipsychotic drugs are inadequate to
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| in men; however cancer of any kind can be
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| | uncover the emotional pain, and heal the
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| as a result of physical or sexual abuse.
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| | trauma trapped in muscles and tissue. To
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| Cancer is anger/rage turned against the
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| | fully appreciate the depth of this pain,
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| self.
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| | I will quote one of my clients, "Even my
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| - Prostitute/promiscuous sex,
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| | blood hurts." A multifaceted healing
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| - Inability to orgasm
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| | process specifically focused on physical
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| - Dissociative Identity Disorder-MPD
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| | and sexual abuse recovery and diligent
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| - Self-injury-self-abuse, self-mutilation
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| | work is the most effective; wherein the
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| (cutting, burning, breaking bones,
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| | survivor can replenish their emotional
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| pinching skin, ingesting, injecting and
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| | and spiritual identity and empowerment.
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| inserting foreign materials, interfering
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