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REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse | 
 enlarge | Author: Marjorie Mckinnon
Creator: Marcie Taylor
Publisher: Loving Healing Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 196
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 1932690522
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8583690651
EAN: 9781932690521
ASIN: 1932690522
Publication Date: April 15, 2008
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Product Description
R.E.P.A.I.R. is a Six-Stage Program for abuse survivors that will transform your life forever!
Recognize and accept your adult problems stemming from childhood sexual abuse. Enter into a commitment to transform your life. Process your issues with tools and techniques that will enable you to become healthy. Awareness to discover reality as you gather and assemble the pieces of the broken puzzle your life became. Insight into the complete picture helps you begin to return to what you were prior to being sexually violated. Rhythm recovers the natural rhythm you had before the incest happened, the blueprint that is the essence of your true nature, becoming who you really are.
Therapists' Acclaim for REPAIR Your Life
"Thank you Marjorie and God bless you for adapting this program for our survivors to follow. You have given survivors hope to continue on their healing journey."
-Donna Gustafson, Executive Director, Sunrise Center Against Sexual Abuse
"Anyone wanting to recover from the life-long trauma of childhood sexual abuse will benefit from this book."
-Marcelle B. Taylor, MFT
"This program just has to work, because whether intuitively or through research, Marjorie McKinnon has assembled a highly effective program of recovery."
-Bob Rich, PhD
Please visit www.TheLampLighters.org for more information or to find a group in your area.
Another life-changing title from Loving Healing Press www.LHPress.com
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 Step - based Program for Recovery from CSA June 24, 2008
REPAIR Your Life is a stage- oriented recovery program for adult survivors of child sexual abuse. This book is differs from other recovery literature for survivors in that it is written by a survivor and is based on her own experience of recovery.
Here stages of REPAIR are as follows:
*RECOGNIZE and accept your adult problems stemming from childhood sexual abuse
*ENTER into a commitment to transform your life
*PROCESS your issues with tools and techniques that you will enable you to become healthy
*AWARENESS to discovery reality as you gather and assemble the pieces of the broken puzzle your life became
*INSIGHT into the complete picture helps you begin to return to what you were prior to being sexually violated
*RHYTHM recovers the natural rhythm you had before the incest happened, the blueprint that is the essence of your true nature, becoming who you really are
(page 13).
This book is concise and I was impressed that she was able to convey information in a helpful and non-threatening manner. I did not see anything that would be terribly triggering, and I would feel comfortable passing this book along to someone new to healing. The stage system should feel comfortable for individuals who have worked the twelve steps or someone who appreciates taking something on that has step-by -step instructions.
Although the writer is not a therapist, her writing is evidence of plenty of her own work and reading. She emphasizes that she has found therapy and the 12 steps beneficial, but needed to find her own way. The book encourages healing work, whether it is done in therapy, support groups, or outside of these realms.
I was impressed by the writer's willingness to explore how her abuse, and the aftermath of her abuse, has impacted her children. Also, I like the drawings and the encouragement to journal on various topics throughout the book. The resource section is fairly detailed and there is a topic index.
 It's never too late to repair your life May 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (4/08)
"Repair Your Life" offers victims of incest and childhood sexual abuse the tools to help them overcome the shame and trauma that they encountered as children. It teaches you how to become the person that you were meant to be. So many survivors of abuse get trapped in non-ending cycles of being in unhealthy relationships, having addictions and making poor choices. Often the children of these survivors become victims.
Ms. McKinnon has developed a six-stage program called REPAIR. It stands for: Recognition, Entry, Process, Awareness, Insight, Rhythm, and Post-Recovery. She dedicates a chapter to each stage and offers some writing exercises to go along with them. By going through this process you will be able to transform yourself from a victim into a survivor. She teaches you to be aware of how the abuse is affecting you as an adult. She tells her own personal story. I felt very grateful that she shared so much of herself because no one reading this book will be able to tell her, "But you don't understand." She clearly does and by overcoming her abuse, she sets an example to the rest of the world. Incest and childhood sexual abuse survivors can be whole, healthy and happy.
"Repair Your Life" has a holistic approach to recovery. Going beyond the six stages for recovery, Ms. McKinnon also discusses how to be healthy and whole -- things that victims are not taught. This includes learning how to set boundaries, and take care of your health. She reminds us that we are special and that we need to honor our bodies with healthy care.
The whole book really impressed me; however, there were two things that really had a personal effect on me. The first thing was her discussion of shame. Incest survivors tend to get trapped in feelings of guilt and shame. She makes it clear that the abuse was not their fault and that the blame should be placed where it belongs which is on the abuser's shoulders, even if they were victims themselves. It is amazing how much damage carrying around a lifetime of shame can do to someone's soul. The other thing that stood out to me was that she said that predators look for obedient children. So many people that I know that have been abused have had other predators seek them out. This makes the victim feel like they are marked with something that tells the world that they deserved to be molested. I have heard this expressed many times. When Ms. McKinnon mentions that predators look for obedient children, it answered that question for me. They look for children that look like they will do what they are told. That makes much sense, and it lets the survivor know that they didn't have something "written on their back" identifying them as deserving to be abused.
"Repair Your Life" is a must read for all survivors of sexual abuse. It should also be read by friends and family members close to the survivor. Counselors will also greatly benefit from the book. "Repair Your Life" will give you tools and resources to help you on your journey of recovery.
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