A voice for the inner world of rape survivors

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	• After Silence: Rape & My Journey Back Nancy Venable Raine Three Rivers Press, 1999 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 47 reviews view larger image
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read this, and set yourself free

this is an amazingly written piece of work. i am 20 yr. old college student who lived through a date rape experience that changed me forever. after it happened, i wasn't sure if what i was feeling was normal, because i didn't anyone else who had experienced being raped, or knew how to verbalize it as well as this author. it set me free to see that no matter what your circumtance are around the assault, there are many women out there who have beeen through the same emotional roollercoaster. knowledge is power, this is a most read.

Inspirational

Being a survivor of a violent rape- I was looking for a book that would help me to know that I'm not the only one. After Silence was that book and I've since read it 3 times. The accounts were all too familar. This book started my healing process. I truely believe it can inspire any survivor.

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Understanding helps

I bought this book for my girlfriend to help her find ways to recover from a very brutual attack that occurred when she was much younger.

This book was very effective for her because it paralleled her experience: a prolonged assault involving extensive contact with her attacker. In addition, it addressed the Post Tramautic Stress Disorder (PTSD) problems she has been encountering as a result of the attack.

If someone you love has suffered from an attack, books like this can help both you and them understand what has happened and how they might be feeling. My girlfriend had trouble articulating her feelings about the attack and this book (and others) helped her overcome her difficulties and express herself.

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A voice for the inner world of rape survivors

Reading this book will show you that you are not alone. Nancy Venable Raine talks extensively about the damaging effects of being silenced, and of keeping the secret. She expresses that rape is a death and that healing is a discovery of who you are.

Nancy writes with such poetic detail that you feel the depth of terror in her experience, but you also feel incredible joy that she survived to be the person that she is.

Nancy Venable Raine offers fabulous insight into PTSD, and it's effects on brain chemistry.

In addition her telling and understanding of the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone (Originally "The Hymn to Demeter") was one of the best and most touching that I have ever read. Another great book about women's journeys to sexual healing (including a telling of the myth of Demeter and Persephone) is "Aphrodite's Daughters" by Jalaja Bonheim.

On Page 243 of "After Silence" Nancy Venable Raine says, "The way back from victimization is not triumph over adversity. It is transformation through grief, rage, and loss." I feel that transformation is a very accurate description and it is within our hands to achieve.

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Excellent and informative

In sharing her personal experience the author begins to pave the way for other women to break their own silence. The book is powerful by many facets. It is socially and politically aware and enlightening; it provides excellent information about trauma and recovery; it provides hope that one can move beyond the pain; finally it provides the truth in it's raw entirety. This book is a refreshing change of pace. Survivors of childhood sexual abuse will have difficulty relating to portions that discuss grieving the loss of the "self before the trauma." Great book.

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