Healing Victims of Sexual Abuse [Paperback]

Paula Sandford (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0932081215 | ISBN-13: 978-0932081216 | Publication Date: July 1988

This books gives love, acceptance, and healing to the victims of sexual abuse the abused, the abuser, and their families. It is an invaluable tool for those who counsel and minister to lives fractured by sexual abuse. As a professional counselor, Paula Sandford has helped hundreds of sexual abuse victims successfully deal with their fears, guilt, confusion, and depression. In her personal life, she has seen beloved family members victimized by this cruel enemy of childhood and family life. She knows the pain that all the victims share, but she also knows the way to healing. Through the many various stories of tragedy to triumph and practical tools for healing, this book leads the reader into new dimensions of hope, healing, and wholeness.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Hope, Healing, and Wholeness for Wounded Hearts and Fractured Lives
As a professional prayer minister with more than thirty years' experience counseling others, Paula Sandford has helped hundreds of sexual abuse victims successfully deal with their fears, guilt, confusion, and depression. In her personal life, she has seen beloved family members victimized by this cruel enemy of childhood and family life. She knows the pain that all the victims share, but she also knows the way to healing.

In Healing Victims of Sexual Abuse she brings her knowledge and experience directly to you, providing hope that there is a life full of light and wholeness beyond the dark tunnel of despair and shame. With inspirational stories of tragedy to triumph and practical tools for healing, this book is an invaluable tool for those who counsel and minister to lives that have been fractured by abuse.

Sexual abuse victimizes everyone--the abused, families, loved ones, and even the abuser. This book gives love, acceptance, and healing to all of the victims, leading them into new dimensions of hope, healing, and wholeness. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Paula Sandford is cofounder of Elijah House ministries. Throughout the past fifty years, she has ministered to countless number of people in the areas of inner healing and transformation as an ordained minister and counselor. Many around the world consider her to be their personal counselor and spiritual mother. With her husband, John, she has coauthored more than twenty books. Paula and John have been married for over fifty years. They have six children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 164 pages
• Publisher: Victory House Publishers (July 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932081215
• ISBN-13: 978-0932081216
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,602,535 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The touch of healing, November 8, 2001

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Fabien (Shah Alam, Selangor D.E. Malaysia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healing Victims of Sexual Abuse (Paperback)

Paula Sanford had made extensive work on practical
spiritual Healing Victims of Sexual Abuse. This is
what most victims need in guidance of spiritual healing
which they suffered in silent and drowning without help.
I find the approach to be excellent in adopting the
Word of God in the healing process. The touch of healing
in submission to Christ and God's Word and in prayers
are just a beginning to make a victim of Sexual Abuse
whole again.I would recommend this book to any victims
of SA who need answers for their sufferings or
counselors in ministering victims on the journey
to recovery and wholeness again.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Transforming Stories of Turning Tragedy to Triumph, August 22, 2009

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Richard R. Blake (Bridgman, Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Healing Victims Of Sexual Abuse: How to counsel and minister to hearts wounded by abuse (Paperback)

Well known author and prayer minister Paula Sandford provides the reader with ways to deal with the guilt, shame, and confusion after becoming the victim of sexual abuse. "Healing for Victims of Sexual Abuse" is written to provide help to all of those concerned about the problems surrounding sexual abuse so that they may gain a greater understanding of and empathy for the victims of abuse, (the abused, their loved ones, and the abuser himself).

Sandford draws on her training, her counseling and ministry experiences in inner healing and restoration as well as from the trauma of an incident within their own family in the writing of this book. I personally was encouraged, inspired, and challenged by Sanford's responses to the letters and reports regarding the most common errors in ministry to the abused. I found her suggestions on how to counsel and minister to the hearts of those wounded by abuse especially helpful and insightful.

Paula offers a message of hope and healing, understanding and love, acceptance and fulfillment in "Healing Victims of Sexual Abuse."

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, December 19, 2011

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JenFaith - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Healing Victims Of Sexual Abuse: How to counsel and minister to hearts wounded by abuse (Paperback)

The book is good and in good shape however the image in the photo when I brought it is not that color. It is really pink and white. Overall it was the same book and I enjoy it. It was packed good and shipped early.