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Child, Arise!: The Courage to Stand: A Handbook for Survivors of Sexual Abuse

Paperback |English |1863551530 | 9781863551533

Child, Arise!: The Courage to Stand: A Handbook for Survivors of Sexual Abuse

Paperback |English |1863551530 | 9781863551533
Overview

About the book

A SPIRITUAL HANDBOOK FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE

This practical handbook invites the reader to embark on a journey of healing by taking a guided walk through the Scriptures where they will learn to listen to their personal story narrated by a loving God.

As this transforming journey unfolds, the reader will be amazed as they discover the presence of an all-loving and compassionate God who walks with them and extends a healing hand to them, empowering them to work through the effects and issues of sexual abuse. It is a practical handbook that also offers insight to spiritual and pastoral care workers accompanying survivors of sexual abuse, family and friends and other supporters.

Interwoven within the scriptural reflections is the story of the author's own journey from trauma to healing. It is a powerful and moving narrative that serves as a model for other survivors.

Distinctive features of this book

  • The author writes as a survivor of abuse speaking to other survivors of abuse (particularly sexual abuse).
  • It is a practical handbook that invites the reader to participate by walking their own spiritual journey.
  • It acknowledges the deep spiritual wounds of survivors of abuse by dealing with the big existential questions that arise.
  • It deals with the distorted image of God that victims often cannot escape.
  • Even those who read the book and have not have been abused can walk this spiritual journey.
  • While focusing on the spiritual, it is also integrates the very real practical issues faced by survivors of abuse and those who support them.
  • It is written in a gentle and non-imposing manner.
  • It is a handbook that gently introduces the readers to a technique and step-by step-guide on how to encounter and listen to God through the Scriptures and how to experience the transforming power of Scripture at work in their life.
  • It reveals how holistic healing can be achieved through spirituality and shows how God works through the Scriptures and has the power to transform and integrate the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual effects of abuse.
  • It is a practical handbook that offers insight to spiritual and pastoral care workers accompanying survivors of sexual abuse and the technique of approaching the Scriptures may be used as a guide for survivor support groups attempting to respond to survivor's spiritual needs.
ISBN: 1863551530
ISBN13: 9781863551533
Author: Jane N Dowling
Publisher: David Lovell Publishing
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 2017-09-04
Language: English
Edition: 2nd Second - Published 2019 ed.
PageCount: 272
Dimensions: 6.0 x 0.62 x 9.0 inches
Weight: 12.96 ounces

About the book

A SPIRITUAL HANDBOOK FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE

This practical handbook invites the reader to embark on a journey of healing by taking a guided walk through the Scriptures where they will learn to listen to their personal story narrated by a loving God.

As this transforming journey unfolds, the reader will be amazed as they discover the presence of an all-loving and compassionate God who walks with them and extends a healing hand to them, empowering them to work through the effects and issues of sexual abuse. It is a practical handbook that also offers insight to spiritual and pastoral care workers accompanying survivors of sexual abuse, family and friends and other supporters.

Interwoven within the scriptural reflections is the story of the author's own journey from trauma to healing. It is a powerful and moving narrative that serves as a model for other survivors.

Distinctive features of this book

  • The author writes as a survivor of abuse speaking to other survivors of abuse (particularly sexual abuse).
  • It is a practical handbook that invites the reader to participate by walking their own spiritual journey.
  • It acknowledges the deep spiritual wounds of survivors of abuse by dealing with the big existential questions that arise.
  • It deals with the distorted image of God that victims often cannot escape.
  • Even those who read the book and have not have been abused can walk this spiritual journey.
  • While focusing on the spiritual, it is also integrates the very real practical issues faced by survivors of abuse and those who support them.
  • It is written in a gentle and non-imposing manner.
  • It is a handbook that gently introduces the readers to a technique and step-by step-guide on how to encounter and listen to God through the Scriptures and how to experience the transforming power of Scripture at work in their life.
  • It reveals how holistic healing can be achieved through spirituality and shows how God works through the Scriptures and has the power to transform and integrate the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual effects of abuse.
  • It is a practical handbook that offers insight to spiritual and pastoral care workers accompanying survivors of sexual abuse and the technique of approaching the Scriptures may be used as a guide for survivor support groups attempting to respond to survivor's spiritual needs.
Editorial Reviews


"One of the most important books to have been written in a time of intense scrutiny and dark and disturbing exposure for the church. It is an account of personal courage and gracious spirit, and a story of remarkable faith. It is a book full of invitation, of possibility and of hope."

-- Rev Dr David Ranson Senior Lecturer, Sydney College of Divinity

"I share a vision that no-one should journey in sorrow without hope. 'Child, Arise!' offers hope: it lifts the shame of child sexual abuse from 'victims' and presents practical encouragement for ways to access light, vitality and insight in the darkest of times, when suffering seems unending."

-- John Ellis, Lawyer and Survivor

"An emerging capacity for reflection is integral to trauma recovery. 'Child, Arise!' uses biblical language to anchor reflection and yet its genesis in lived experience renders this book potentially useful even to those whose faith has been devastated by abuse by clergy."

-- Nicola Ellis, Lawyer / Psychotherapist

"This spiritual handbook is welcome, constructive and unique. Here we have a broad range of specifically chosen, biblically based, powerful prayerful reflections enabling the survivor, of any age and circumstance, to tap into their spiritual selves, perhaps long muted."

-- Dr Jennifer Herrick, Sexual Abuse Survivor and Theological Scholar

"This is a book by a victim of sexual abuse for other victims, someone who has spent countless hours meditating on the scriptures and applying them to her situation. It is an abundant source of consolation and inspiration, not just for victims but for the whole community."

-- Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, Author of For Christ's Sake: End Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church ... for Good (2013)



About the author Jane N. Dowling has spent twenty-two years as a consecrated member of an international Catholic missionary community facilitating retreats and providing guidance on how to pray with the Scriptures. As a survivor of sexual abuse, she experienced the transformative power of God's word in her own healing journey. Further witnessing this transformation in others prompted her to write this book. In late 2012, having taken leave from her community and ministry commitments for health reasons, she appeared before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. 'My decision to tell my story to the Royal Commission', she says, 'not only initiated a personal journey of deeper healing but also provided the raw material for God to work with and what I needed to begin writing this book.'

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Overview

About the book

A SPIRITUAL HANDBOOK FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE

This practical handbook invites the reader to embark on a journey of healing by taking a guided walk through the Scriptures where they will learn to listen to their personal story narrated by a loving God.

As this transforming journey unfolds, the reader will be amazed as they discover the presence of an all-loving and compassionate God who walks with them and extends a healing hand to them, empowering them to work through the effects and issues of sexual abuse. It is a practical handbook that also offers insight to spiritual and pastoral care workers accompanying survivors of sexual abuse, family and friends and other supporters.

Interwoven within the scriptural reflections is the story of the author's own journey from trauma to healing. It is a powerful and moving narrative that serves as a model for other survivors.

Distinctive features of this book

  • The author writes as a survivor of abuse speaking to other survivors of abuse (particularly sexual abuse).
  • It is a practical handbook that invites the reader to participate by walking their own spiritual journey.
  • It acknowledges the deep spiritual wounds of survivors of abuse by dealing with the big existential questions that arise.
  • It deals with the distorted image of God that victims often cannot escape.
  • Even those who read the book and have not have been abused can walk this spiritual journey.
  • While focusing on the spiritual, it is also integrates the very real practical issues faced by survivors of abuse and those who support them.
  • It is written in a gentle and non-imposing manner.
  • It is a handbook that gently introduces the readers to a technique and step-by step-guide on how to encounter and listen to God through the Scriptures and how to experience the transforming power of Scripture at work in their life.
  • It reveals how holistic healing can be achieved through spirituality and shows how God works through the Scriptures and has the power to transform and integrate the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual effects of abuse.
  • It is a practical handbook that offers insight to spiritual and pastoral care workers accompanying survivors of sexual abuse and the technique of approaching the Scriptures may be used as a guide for survivor support groups attempting to respond to survivor's spiritual needs.
ISBN: 1863551530
ISBN13: 9781863551533
Author: Jane N Dowling
Publisher: David Lovell Publishing
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 2017-09-04
Language: English
Edition: 2nd Second - Published 2019 ed.
PageCount: 272
Dimensions: 6.0 x 0.62 x 9.0 inches
Weight: 12.96 ounces

About the book

A SPIRITUAL HANDBOOK FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE

This practical handbook invites the reader to embark on a journey of healing by taking a guided walk through the Scriptures where they will learn to listen to their personal story narrated by a loving God.

As this transforming journey unfolds, the reader will be amazed as they discover the presence of an all-loving and compassionate God who walks with them and extends a healing hand to them, empowering them to work through the effects and issues of sexual abuse. It is a practical handbook that also offers insight to spiritual and pastoral care workers accompanying survivors of sexual abuse, family and friends and other supporters.

Interwoven within the scriptural reflections is the story of the author's own journey from trauma to healing. It is a powerful and moving narrative that serves as a model for other survivors.

Distinctive features of this book

  • The author writes as a survivor of abuse speaking to other survivors of abuse (particularly sexual abuse).
  • It is a practical handbook that invites the reader to participate by walking their own spiritual journey.
  • It acknowledges the deep spiritual wounds of survivors of abuse by dealing with the big existential questions that arise.
  • It deals with the distorted image of God that victims often cannot escape.
  • Even those who read the book and have not have been abused can walk this spiritual journey.
  • While focusing on the spiritual, it is also integrates the very real practical issues faced by survivors of abuse and those who support them.
  • It is written in a gentle and non-imposing manner.
  • It is a handbook that gently introduces the readers to a technique and step-by step-guide on how to encounter and listen to God through the Scriptures and how to experience the transforming power of Scripture at work in their life.
  • It reveals how holistic healing can be achieved through spirituality and shows how God works through the Scriptures and has the power to transform and integrate the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual effects of abuse.
  • It is a practical handbook that offers insight to spiritual and pastoral care workers accompanying survivors of sexual abuse and the technique of approaching the Scriptures may be used as a guide for survivor support groups attempting to respond to survivor's spiritual needs.
Editorial Reviews


"One of the most important books to have been written in a time of intense scrutiny and dark and disturbing exposure for the church. It is an account of personal courage and gracious spirit, and a story of remarkable faith. It is a book full of invitation, of possibility and of hope."

-- Rev Dr David Ranson Senior Lecturer, Sydney College of Divinity

"I share a vision that no-one should journey in sorrow without hope. 'Child, Arise!' offers hope: it lifts the shame of child sexual abuse from 'victims' and presents practical encouragement for ways to access light, vitality and insight in the darkest of times, when suffering seems unending."

-- John Ellis, Lawyer and Survivor

"An emerging capacity for reflection is integral to trauma recovery. 'Child, Arise!' uses biblical language to anchor reflection and yet its genesis in lived experience renders this book potentially useful even to those whose faith has been devastated by abuse by clergy."

-- Nicola Ellis, Lawyer / Psychotherapist

"This spiritual handbook is welcome, constructive and unique. Here we have a broad range of specifically chosen, biblically based, powerful prayerful reflections enabling the survivor, of any age and circumstance, to tap into their spiritual selves, perhaps long muted."

-- Dr Jennifer Herrick, Sexual Abuse Survivor and Theological Scholar

"This is a book by a victim of sexual abuse for other victims, someone who has spent countless hours meditating on the scriptures and applying them to her situation. It is an abundant source of consolation and inspiration, not just for victims but for the whole community."

-- Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, Author of For Christ's Sake: End Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church ... for Good (2013)



About the author Jane N. Dowling has spent twenty-two years as a consecrated member of an international Catholic missionary community facilitating retreats and providing guidance on how to pray with the Scriptures. As a survivor of sexual abuse, she experienced the transformative power of God's word in her own healing journey. Further witnessing this transformation in others prompted her to write this book. In late 2012, having taken leave from her community and ministry commitments for health reasons, she appeared before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. 'My decision to tell my story to the Royal Commission', she says, 'not only initiated a personal journey of deeper healing but also provided the raw material for God to work with and what I needed to begin writing this book.'

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Shipping method varies depending on what is being shipped.  

Tracking
All orders are shipped with a tracking number. Once your order has left our warehouse, a confirmation e-mail with a tracking number will be sent to you. You will be able to track your package at all times. 

Damaged Parcel
If your package has been delivered in a PO Box, please note that we are not responsible for any damage that may result (consequences of extreme temperatures, theft, etc.). 

If you have any questions regarding shipping or want to know about the status of an order, please contact us or email to support@stevensbooks.com.

You may return most items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund.

To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. It must also be in the original packaging.

Several types of goods are exempt from being returned. Perishable goods such as food, flowers, newspapers or magazines cannot be returned. We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases.

Additional non-returnable items:

  • Gift cards
  • Downloadable software products
  • Some health and personal care items

To complete your return, we require a tracking number, which shows the items which you already returned to us.
There are certain situations where only partial refunds are granted (if applicable)

  • Book with obvious signs of use
  • CD, DVD, VHS tape, software, video game, cassette tape, or vinyl record that has been opened
  • Any item not in its original condition, is damaged or missing parts for reasons not due to our error
  • Any item that is returned more than 30 days after delivery

Items returned to us as a result of our error will receive a full refund,some returns may be subject to a restocking fee of 7% of the total item price, please contact a customer care team member to see if your return is subject. Returns that arrived on time and were as described are subject to a restocking fee.

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  • Item(s) no longer needed or wanted.
  • Item(s) returned to us due to an invalid or incomplete address.
  • Item(s) returned to us that were not a result of our error.

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If you need to return an item, please Contact Us with your order number and details about the product you would like to return. We will respond quickly with instructions for how to return items from your order.


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