No Safe Place

Negative reviews of this book expose another: People who have never been abused just don't get it. They preach "just move on" and "how relevant is that really, when it happened years ago?" "don't live in the past" "determine to put it out of your mind and don't let it control your life" and probably the worst of all - "Just don't dwell on it." If it were that easy to heal, people wouldn't need therapists and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder wouldn't exist at all. Abuse leaves scars that never really heal, damages and sometimes even destroys a person's ability to trust or establish true relationships. PTSD and trauma make it difficult to hold jobs or just get a good night's sleep. Her "spokes" are entirely accurate. The majority of homeless people, alcoholics, drug abusers, etc are abuse survivors. Christina also explodes the sacred cow of adoption: that all adoptive parents are warm, wonderful people people who take in unwanted children unselfishly and solely out of the goodness of their hearts, and would never dream of abusing them. Thank you, Ms. Crawford, for a careful expose of the terrible and lingering effects of abuse.

I am totally into this author. I have read the 20th Anniversary Edition of "Mommie Dearest" over and over. "No Safe Place" has some more brief stories of Mommie, which I could listen to all day. Christina has definitely done her homework for this book, with extensive research and her own firsthand experience. Anyone looking for recommendations for Self Help books should surely give this book a try.Stop being Jive-Turkeys and voting against my review!