The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Author: Dan B. Allender
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ISBN: 0891092897
Publisher: Navpress (July, 1990)
Sales Rank: 4,797
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
Be Ready for the Miracles
I read The Wounded Heart and its workbook six years ago before I ever became a Christian, never imagining the impact these books would have on my life. Now I conduct Wounded Heart Workbook studies at my church. Dr. Allender understands and is sensitive to the dilemas and pain victims face in adult-hood and offers a sensible real-life approach to healing. While the self discovery always involves pain and grieving, the issues are handled with love and fresh creativity. Each time I go through a study, I uncover deeper levels of understanding my past and greater hope to face the future whole and intact. I've also developed friendships and trust with other victims that I will treasure for all time. We are finding that spouses are now reading the book and joining our studies also, sparking renewed tenderness and communication in stressed marriages. Now I am free to laugh harder, love deeper, and care more. Thank you Dr. Allender!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Superb Title
For the title alone, I would read this book since it recognizes that anything that happens to a person, or any experience, affects the heart and soul as well as the attitude and perspective, all of which are required to be reconciled in order to trust another, and to entrust oneself to another. Few recognize the extent to which the heart is so wholly involved in anyone's personal experience. Truly, each person can be thought to have a "purple heart" that thrives from passion, and/or resists pain. This should be on the cardiac book of the year list for an award given the nature of anxiety, its causes, and the probability of physical and emotional disturbances that result from not recognizing the degree to which the heart is involved in healthy living, a design worthy of the soul's honor and need for self help. Because all abuse is, and can be, sexual abuse, or more specifically, human abuse, the book is pertinent to everyone, to heal or to help.
Rating: 5 out of 5
In agreement with Reviewer
I also believe that "WOUNDED HEART" and "NIGHTMARES ECHO" are great books to read together. While one gives insight into the mind of the abused child the other teaches us how to get past the past that haunts.
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