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Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light: A Memoir of Cutting, Healing, and Hope

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This book provided me excellent insight into the mind of a cutter to help understand why Vanessa repeatedly injured herself. Ms. Vega shares her thoughts through individual therapy dialog, group therapy, and personal memories and motivations. I valued reading this book because it allowed me to experience a personal account of the issues involved with the desire to cut oneself. It removed some of the myths I had heard and introduced me to a deeper understanding of the complexity of this dis-ease of at least of one individual. As a therapist-in-training, I learned a great deal, I think more than if this had been a book written by a therapist about one or more cutters that they have seen in counseling. Great read. I highly recommend it.

This book is both touching & healing. You do not have to be a cutter to identify with the pain that Vanessa has felt, or the hopes and dreams of the future. Excellent read!

A great true story. I even got in touch with the author and we talked some. Anyone that suffers from some of these issues would most likly enjoy this this.

Vanessa Vega is an amazing and strong woman. The way that she shares her story is inspiring in so many ways. I have read many memoirs about self-injury, and none provided me with as much as hope as "Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light."

This type of therapy is exactly what you have to go through to get on the road to recovery from self injury.

The author shared some really personal and shocking information, and I thought is was very interesting and informative.