Abuse, Trauma, Rape, Molestation, Assault Recovery - Author Christine Ristaino

Dr. Carol Francis

Dr. Carol Francis (Psychologist in Los Angeles) and creator of the online courses at AbuseTraumaRecovery.com dedicates this program to Survivors of Rape, Molestation, and Assaults with the help of survivor and author Christine Ristaino who shares her vitally important experience and recovery processes in the book All the Silent Spaces. Christine Ristaino is a professor at Emory University and author of several books, yet finds her autobiography and insights in All the Silent Spaces, about recovering after surviving assaults, as essential for helping millions of others facing their past and moving forward with quality living. All the Silent Spaces book description: "In September 2007, Christine Ristaino was attacked in a store parking lot while her three- and five-year-old children watched. In All the Silent Spaces, Ristaino shares what it felt like to be an ordinary person confronted with an extraordinary event?a woman trying to deal with acute trauma even as she went on with her everyday life, working at a university and parenting two children with her husband. She not only narrates how this event changed her but also tells how looking at the event through both the reactions of her community and her own sensibility allowed her to finally face two other violent episodes she had previously experienced. As new memories surfaced after the attack, it took everything in Ristaino’s power to not let catastrophe unravel the precarious threads holding everything together. DrCarolFrancis.com, AbuseTraumaRecovery.com