--- product_id: 57819878 title: "The Courage to Heal: The Inspiring Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse" price: "$44.77" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.us/products/57819878-the-courage-to-heal-the-inspiring-guide-for-women-survivors store_origin: US region: United States of America --- # New mint condition guaranteed Same-day dispatch before noon No-quibble returns The Courage to Heal: The Inspiring Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse **Price:** $44.77 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸ“š Courage to Heal: Your essential companion on the path from silence to strength. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Courage to Heal: The Inspiring Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse - **How much does it cost?** $44.77 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.us](https://www.desertcart.us/products/57819878-the-courage-to-heal-the-inspiring-guide-for-women-survivors) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Risk-Free Purchase:** No quibbles returns ensure you can invest in your recovery with confidence and peace of mind. - β€’ **Inclusive & Insightful:** Addresses complex trauma with clarity, breaking silence and stigma to foster community and understanding. - β€’ **Trusted Bestseller Status:** Ranked top 100 in Psychology & Violence, this book is a proven resource embraced by thousands. - β€’ **Empower Your Healing Journey:** A compassionate guide crafted from hundreds of survivor stories, offering practical steps to reclaim your life. - β€’ **Immediate Access, Immediate Support:** Order before noon and get same-day dispatchβ€”because your healing can't wait. ## Overview The Courage to Heal is a bestselling, empowering self-help guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse. Drawing on hundreds of survivor experiences, it offers practical advice, emotional support, and hope for rebuilding self-esteem and intimacy. With new mint condition copies, guaranteed packaging, same-day dispatch for orders before noon, and hassle-free returns, this trusted resource ranks highly in psychology and abuse recovery categories, making it a vital tool for anyone seeking healing and community. ## Description The empowering bestseller and self help guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse. Based on the experiences of hundreds of child abuse survivors, The Courage to Heal profiles victims who share the challenges and triumphs of their personal healing processes. The accessible and inspiring book offers hope, encouragement and practical advice to every woman who was sexually abused as a child and answers some vital questions, including: How do I know if I was sexually abused? Where does the decision to heal start? How can I break the silence and who will listen? How can I re-build my self-esteem, intimacy and capacity to love? What therapy, support groups, self-help programmes or organisations are available? Inspiring and comprehensive, The Courage to Heal offers mental, emotional and physical support to all people who are in the process of rebuilding their lives. Review: The survivor's bible and best friend. - This book is written in an easy to understand format, and deals with a painful and horrifying subject kindly, supportively and very unambiguously. For the survivor, it covers all stages, and makes everything acceptable, thus removing the secrecy, shame and 'I thought it was just me....' feelings that survivors have. The stories hold much to identify with, and although harrowing, are helpful. On my own journey I have gone through many stages and emotions, and this book has helped me though them. Recovery from abuse is a long process, and it takes a huge amount of courage and bravery to do so. I think what I found helpful was to see how families react to disclosure, and to support you if this is less than positive (usually it is, unfortunately ) I would suggest reading it in small chunks, and not overwhelming yourself with it, because each bit can bring stuff up that your own identification with is painful, and needs time to process, so go gently and slowly. If you're in therapy it's helpful to share this with your therapist if they're a good one. I have found it invaluable on my journey, and would wholeheartedly recommend it for survivors as an essential way to be kind to yourselves, and to therapists as to how to help, due to its thorough and complete insight and practical and emotional guidance. I would like to just comment on some other reviews that cite this book as being the harbinger of 'false memory' syndrome, and that once someone has read this book, they will become convinced they have been abused themselves and accuse everyone around them. As an ex child protection social worker of 20 + years experience I would say that abuse is actually very, very common. Much more than we may think. It IS shocking how much abuse is perpetrated. Trauma often does repress memory for many, many years, or until it is safe enough to deal with. I am disheartened to see other reviews saying that this book causes damage. I disagree. This book does not cause damage. Abuse causes damage, secrecy causes damage, and the concept of false memory syndrome causes damage too, and to many survivors is an invalidating, accusatory and unhelpful idea, which feels offensive, and appears to protect perpetrators. Trauma is stored very differently in the brain to other memory, is is often fragmented and in smells, sounds, and flashes of images, particularly if the child was pre verbal. Survivors don't always remember immediately, as abuse is so overwhelming that to survive, repression is a common occurrence, although not everyone does, many do. There isn't ONE category of survivor, and the right way to do it. There are many ways survivors process their memories, some have addiction, self harm, mental health issues food issues, some with none of the above. This book is helpful, and may be the lone voice that supports you, because recovery from abuse is a lonely road, but ultimately one which will set you free. Review: A Huge Step Toward Healing - Invaluable - This is heart wrenching and uplifting all at the same time. It has given me a huge insight into myself and my struggles and extended a compassionate, unconditional loving embrace that I sorely needed. This is a book that deserves to be a best seller and should be read by anyone struggling with the affects of abuse. This book really has given me courage and strength and a feeling of peace both with myself and those around me. There is still a way to go for me - but reading this book has been invaluable and a huge step on the road to recovery. ## Features - New - Mint Condition - Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon - Guaranteed packaging - No quibbles returns ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 86,636 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 94 in Psychology & Violence 160 in Family & Lifestyle Child Abuse 187 in Child Abuse Biographies | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,803 Reviews | ## Images ![The Courage to Heal: The Inspiring Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81nROCnTh1L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The survivor's bible and best friend. *by E***E on 28 October 2010* This book is written in an easy to understand format, and deals with a painful and horrifying subject kindly, supportively and very unambiguously. For the survivor, it covers all stages, and makes everything acceptable, thus removing the secrecy, shame and 'I thought it was just me....' feelings that survivors have. The stories hold much to identify with, and although harrowing, are helpful. On my own journey I have gone through many stages and emotions, and this book has helped me though them. Recovery from abuse is a long process, and it takes a huge amount of courage and bravery to do so. I think what I found helpful was to see how families react to disclosure, and to support you if this is less than positive (usually it is, unfortunately ) I would suggest reading it in small chunks, and not overwhelming yourself with it, because each bit can bring stuff up that your own identification with is painful, and needs time to process, so go gently and slowly. If you're in therapy it's helpful to share this with your therapist if they're a good one. I have found it invaluable on my journey, and would wholeheartedly recommend it for survivors as an essential way to be kind to yourselves, and to therapists as to how to help, due to its thorough and complete insight and practical and emotional guidance. I would like to just comment on some other reviews that cite this book as being the harbinger of 'false memory' syndrome, and that once someone has read this book, they will become convinced they have been abused themselves and accuse everyone around them. As an ex child protection social worker of 20 + years experience I would say that abuse is actually very, very common. Much more than we may think. It IS shocking how much abuse is perpetrated. Trauma often does repress memory for many, many years, or until it is safe enough to deal with. I am disheartened to see other reviews saying that this book causes damage. I disagree. This book does not cause damage. Abuse causes damage, secrecy causes damage, and the concept of false memory syndrome causes damage too, and to many survivors is an invalidating, accusatory and unhelpful idea, which feels offensive, and appears to protect perpetrators. Trauma is stored very differently in the brain to other memory, is is often fragmented and in smells, sounds, and flashes of images, particularly if the child was pre verbal. Survivors don't always remember immediately, as abuse is so overwhelming that to survive, repression is a common occurrence, although not everyone does, many do. There isn't ONE category of survivor, and the right way to do it. There are many ways survivors process their memories, some have addiction, self harm, mental health issues food issues, some with none of the above. This book is helpful, and may be the lone voice that supports you, because recovery from abuse is a lonely road, but ultimately one which will set you free. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Huge Step Toward Healing - Invaluable *by G***E on 6 July 2015* This is heart wrenching and uplifting all at the same time. It has given me a huge insight into myself and my struggles and extended a compassionate, unconditional loving embrace that I sorely needed. This is a book that deserves to be a best seller and should be read by anyone struggling with the affects of abuse. This book really has given me courage and strength and a feeling of peace both with myself and those around me. There is still a way to go for me - but reading this book has been invaluable and a huge step on the road to recovery. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book that takes courage to read *by E***J on 17 August 2012* Its a really good book my counselor is working alongside me!It has helped me loads with regards to realizing that some of the issues I have are very common with survivors of sexual abuse!It has taught me to open up to my partner and together we are working to heal some of the issues I have!I have to be honest it takes courage to read the book as some of the stories bring up memories that are long buried and cemented over!I take the book slowly as that's how I think healing from abuse is best approached!!!If you are just uncovering your abuse or are bearing the negative brunt of family's reactions to you being abused then I would read this book as you will find comfort knowing that you are not alone!It's a good tool to help the little child inside you express how the abuse has affected them as sometimes we bury our child within voice because family can't deal with what's happened so make you out to be the one who has done wrong believe that it was never you fault and use this book to help you discover who you are!!!Don't let abuse define who you are use it to show how strong a human being you really are:)Best of luck xoxo --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.us/products/57819878-the-courage-to-heal-the-inspiring-guide-for-women-survivors](https://www.desertcart.us/products/57819878-the-courage-to-heal-the-inspiring-guide-for-women-survivors) --- *Product available on Desertcart United States of America* *Store origin: US* *Last updated: 2026-07-25*