My Father's Child: Help and Healing for the Victims of Emotional, Sexual, and Physical Abuse

WOW. This book is phenomenal. A true self-help guide to recovery. This is not a book that loads you with information and statistics but really gets down to the nitty gritty on how to achieve healing & wholeness from the traumas of abuse. The chapter on the process of change is very simple yet so real. I have read several books on this topic and this is one now tops the list. "On the threshold of hope" by Diane Langberg is also highly recommended even though i thought My Father's child is slightly better. My personal recommendation is if you are just starting out with your healing journey, you probably might not benefit as much from reading this book first. But if you have already done some work on healing and understand how the abuse has affected your life and have had time to 'grieve' over your losses and feelings and now are ready for change more than ever before, grab a copy of this book right away.

Wonderful book for all survivors of physical, emotional, and/or sexual abuse. Each chapter perfectly identifies, explains, and gives life changing suggestions to those of us who have lived through abuse. It's a bit unnerving how accurately it describes myself, my abusers, and bystanders. This book is part of the curriculum of the local Committed To Freedom class for survivors of abuse. I strongly recommend it. Best if studied with a trusted friend, therapist or religous leader.

This book was absolutely monumentus in my search for anwsers. Why and how I act and react to things/people/events in my adult life is based on how I was treated as a child. This book gave me a totally new perspective and was so freeing. Why I was always trying to control every one and needing to have things my way was a result of my personal bounderies being violated as a child. WOW! Who would have thought? God has used these two authors to do a great and mighty work. I only hope that this book can be found so that I can have a copy of my own. So much information and healing to be able to share with others is my hope.