Publisher's Synopsis
NORMALIZING ABUSE...
Do you make excuses and rationalize abuse because it is so familiar that you discount it as being normal?
Many of us are enduring some kind of pervasive abuse or are witness to it and may not even be aware of it. We're being bombarded from so many directions that we have become blind to it. The abuse almost feels normal. We might sense something's not right, yet the problem is not apparent. That could be because abuse and resulting trauma are not always blatant or obvious. It can be collective, insidious and pervasive. We may also be conditioned to it so deeply that it is no longer recognized as abuse by victims, perpetrators and greater society.
- Redefine and recognize abuse and exploitation
- Determine if you're experiencing trauma or enduring abuse in your life or community
- Offers solutions to the abuse and exploitation going on in so many of our lives
- Suggests practices and modalities to put you on your own healing journey
- Recognize you are not alone trying to survive the epidemic of abuse all around us
- Understand why we tolerate or inflict abuse and exploitation
- Learn about the bravery of whistleblowers standing up to abusers
- Find resources to help
- Recognize abuse and exploitation you probably didn't see happening in academia, armed forces, religion, corporations, workplaces everywhere, government, society and culture, among family members and friends, the media and law enforcement
- Transform your life with the tools suggested in Normalizing Abuse