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Overview
Winner of the 2020 Illumination Book Awards Enduring Light Silver Medal for Christian Thought and other awards
"This incredible book is a gift to every victim." (Vicki Bourus, SC Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault executive director)
Not sure if it's abuse?
This book will give you clarity and hope.
An authentic and emotionally raw love letter to victims in an inspirational book of hope and love. Award-winning author and survivor Patty Wain Smith goes beyond self-help and documentaries. The conversation is intimate, affirming, and relatable for victims and those who want to know why it's so hard to leave.
- -It's gentle, powerful, and unspeakably honest-the perfect book to give to a friend, coworker, neighbor, family member, or anyone in an emotionally or physically abusive relationship.
- - Social Workers, clergy, counselors, police officers, nurses, and educators will find themselves transported into the layers of this tragic and hard-to-address social issue, and learn how helping victims can integrate with the Christian faith.
A Letter to a Friend: The Story of Abuse in America combines psychology, counseling, domestic violence, child development, and Christian principles with hope and love. There's a bonus at the back: a link to an original song that helps the reader grieve-an essential part of recovery. Follow the journey of a survivor who grows stronger and wiser after accepting God's gift, and discover the one thing that changes everything.
A Letter to a Friend: The Story of Abuse in America is the winner of the 2020 Illumination Book Awards Enduring Light Silver Medal for Christian Thought; the 2019 International Book Awards Finalist for Best New Non-Fiction, Self-Help: Relationships, and Health: Women's Health; and the 2019 Living Now Book Awards Bronze Medal for Relationships: Marriage.
(New Words Publishing)
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780692825839 |
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Publisher: | New Words Publishing LLC |
Publication date: | 10/05/2017 |
Series: | N/A |
Edition description: | First Print ed. |
Pages: | 144 |
Sales rank: | 1,103,388 |
Product dimensions: | 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.34(d) |
About the Author
The author is a member of the Family Justice Center's Speakers Bureau, and has appeared on Carolina and Company Live television and WRNN radio. She is a longtime South Carolina resident who writes, researches, studies, and reads with her loving dog, Boo, curled up by her feet. In her spare time, she plays piano and guitar, and teaches music. She's a proud member of the South Carolina Writer's Association.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Introduction to the Letter
The Letter
Part I
Chapter One ............... We Know
Chapter Two ............... Trapped
Chapter Three .............The Gift
Part II
Chapter Four ............... No More!
Chapter Five ................ The Seven Sorrows
Chapter Six .................. The Way Home
Chapter Seven ............. Permission to Love
Postscript to the Letter
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