The Obsidian Mirror Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse

by Wisechild, Louise M.; Davis, Laura

• ISBN13: 9781580050852
• ISBN10: 1580050859
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-20
• Publisher: Pub Group West (Cal)

Summary

Affirming and inspiring, The Obsidian Mirror explores the vivid and personal journey of an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Drawing on the power of creativity, Wisechild listens to and learns from her inner voices - the critical judge, the rebel, the scared and needy children of various ages - and uses evocative imagery to describe the emotional settings of her interior landscape. This is both a stirring testimony of one woman's passage from fear and grief to rage and resolve and a moving portrayal of a spiritual reawakening and reclamation of self.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface to the Third Edition	p. ix
The Story	p. xvii
The Voice	p. 3
The Body	p. 14
The Well	p. 28
The Touch	p. 42
The Rock	p. 56
The Threat	p. 67
The Response	p. 86
The Stare	p. 105
The Fire	p. 120
The Mask	p. 135
The Song	p. 149
The Fist	p. 164
The Mirror	p. 182
The Hand	p. 194
The Pit	p. 205
The Cord	p. 221
The Dust	p. 234
The Climb	p. 248
The Gift	p. 268
About the Author	p. 279
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