Books for Women Facing Abuse

Ending abuse in your life is a difficult process, and it takes time. Good books can be an essential part of that process.

Simply the best book written on the subject. If you or someone you know answers "yes" to one or more of the following questions, this book is required reading:

• Does your partner seem irritated or angry at you several times a week?
• Does he deny being angry when he is?
• Do your attempts to discuss feelings of pain or emotional distress leave you with the feeling that the issue has not been resolved?
• Do you frequently feel perplexed and frustrated by his responses, as though you were each speaking a different language?

It's not "all in your head." Evans offers valuable insights into the damaging effects of verbal abuse on wives and children.

Evans' suggestions for responding to verbal abuse will give you real tools for lowering the level of abuse in your relationships.

"With a rare combination of empathy, understanding, compassion, psychological and theological insight, and solid grounding in Scripture, Marie Fortune provides straightforward answers to the anguished questioning of women who live in fear, pain, and confusion, and who long to know if and how their Christian faith addresses the abusive situations in which they find themselves.

The author's style is warm, personal, and engaging. Reading the book is like reading a letter from a dear friend who deeply cares." from a recommendation by Letha Dawsom Scanzoni.

Why a book on fear? Because abuse victims have fear. Abusers control their victims through fear. Once you escape from abuse, you can begin to tame that fear.

Gavin de Becker, the nation's leading expert on predicting violent behavior says... "True fear is a gift." because it is a survival signal that sounds only in the presence of danger; yet unwarranted fear has assumed a power over us that it holds over no other creature on earth. It need not be this way.

In this extraordinary, groundbreaking book, de Becker shows that you can already predict violent behavior.... he lays out the pieces of the human violence puzzle and shows how you can solve it by paying attention to subtle -and sometimes blatant- signals of intuition....

The Gift of Fear will help you separate real from imagined danger, give you confidence in a sometimes threatening world, and make your life immeasurably safer.