Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse Share Their Stories in New Book
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) June 06, 2017 -- Over 700,000 children are abused each year. Millions of adults today are still trying to cope with the effects of trauma they endured as children.
As a psychotherapist, Laurie Kahn treats adults who were abused at the hands of someone they loved when they were children. Laurie, too, had to learn to navigate a wilderness in order to find the “good” kind of love after a rocky childhood. In Baffled by Love: Stories of the Lasting Impact of Childhood Trauma Inflicted by Loved Ones, she includes strands from her own story, along with those of her clients, creating a narrative of shared humanity.
Kahn’s new book, Baffled by Love, recognizes childhood abuse as a traumatic experience of love, a concept that is at once ordinary and radical.
Who suffers from childhood trauma?
What are adults like who are suffering from a traumatic childhood?
Adults who are suffering from the lasting effects of childhood abuse often select partners who repeat their abuse pattern. Adult survivors tend to select their partners from a faulty map, and they have a fractured view of their current relationships.
What is it that Baffled by Love offers to survivors of childhood trauma?
Baffled by Love is a collection of stories about adults who are healing. It is a journey inside the therapeutic relationship, where we meet abuse survivors who are learning to recognize what a safe experience of love looks, sounds, and feels like. The book offers new models of love, with different requirements than what abuse survivors would find familiar.
Baffled by Love: Stories of the Lasting Impact of Childhood Trauma Inflicted by Loved Ones
is published by She Writes Press and available through Amazon beginning June 6, 2017.
Connect with Laurie Kahn on Facebook and learn more at http://www.lauriekahnauthor.com.
Stephanie Barko, Stephanie Barko, Literary Publicist, http://www.stephaniebarko.com, +1 512-291-6188, [email protected]
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