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    Survivor: The Story of One Woman's Personal Transformation from Victim to Survivor
    Survivor: The Story of One Woman's Personal Transformation from Victim to Survivor
    Survivor: The Story of One Woman's Personal Transformation from Victim to Survivor
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    Survivor: The Story of One Woman's Personal Transformation from Victim to Survivor

    By Lindsay Keane

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    In this book, written in a unique and poetic style, Lindsay Keane tells her very personal story of healing after sexual assault. She was victimized in high school and originally dealt with the trauma through denial. This caused her pain to seep out in various ways throughout the years (PTSD, Depression, Toxic relationship cycles, etc.). Eventually, her experiences led her to seek healing and face her problems head on. Her journey eventually brings her to a place where she is able to find acceptance of her trauma and all of the ways it changed the course of her life. She finally completes the journey from denial, victimhood, and ultimately to the mindset of survivor.

    As stated by Lindsay in the book's preface:" Healing is a process less about a destination than it is about maintaining hope, finding acceptance and the will to continue the journey. It is my greatest wish that readers will find this hope, acceptance, and renewed strength through my sharing."

    If you or someone you know has experienced the trauma of sexual assault, this book could be a true aid in healing and finding hope.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLindsay Keane
    Release dateNov 12, 2017
    ISBN9781370385614
    Survivor: The Story of One Woman's Personal Transformation from Victim to Survivor
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    Lindsay Keane

    Lindsay Keane is a Nationally Certified Counselor, a member and volunteer for NAMI, and has struggled for most of her life personally with PTSD, Depression, and Anxiety. She writes memoirs as a mixture of deeply personal and honest prose and poetry. The result is always a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings that connects and often causes healing waves of emotion to wash over her readers. She wants to connect. She wants readers to agree not to judge her and not to judge themselves. She wants readers to learn to love and understand themselves by witnessing her own commitment to self-love amongst so much inner and outer chaos and turmoil. She is undeterred by fear when it comes to revealing herself and her life to others, and she does it with great love, beauty, and integrity.

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      Survivor - Lindsay Keane

      SURVIVOR

      Written, Edited, & Published by,

      Lindsay Keane

      1st Edition, November 2017

      PREFACE

      I decided to write this story as a short story even though it is about one of the greatest struggles of my life and was a significant challenge for me for over 20 years. I kept it short for three reasons: 1) to keep it as affordable as possible; 2) to raise the chances of it being read by more people who need its message; and 3) too keep from masking any of its most important messages within too many details. I ask, if you have been a victim of sexual assault, that if you for any reason lose interest while reading, that you at least jump to the last lines of the book to read this story's ultimate message at heart. I ask, if you are someone who knows anyone who has experienced sexual assault, that you pass this book onto her/him, because this story is meant to validate, heal, and encourage renewed strength and motivation to continue the healing journey.

      My personal healing journey was a very long one and in some senses continues to this day. I kept my rape a secret for many years and lied to myself for as long as I could, telling myself it had not changed me. But the Truth always found ways to manifest itself in my life, and I would eventually be forced to face things. Healing is a process less about a destination than it is about maintaining hope, finding acceptance and the will to continue the journey. It is my greatest wish that readers

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