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Reaching for the Light - A Guide for Ritual Abuse Survivors and Their Therapists

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I am a survivor of ritual abuse and have been searching for books and resources to help me complete my healing. It is extremely difficult to heal from ritual abuse because it is so painful and there are few therapist who truly understand how to guide your healing. This book is one of the best and most uplifting of all the books I have read about the process of healing in a way that empowers you and frees you from the fear and pain. It has many helpful and uplifting suggestions to bring more 'light' in your life too like building a garden of courage. As a survivor I highly recommend this book to other survivors healing from ritual abuse. Unfortunately, the wonderful book, "Safe Passages to Healing" by Chrystine Oskana is out of print. I found a used copy and it is also one of THE best for therapists and survivors.

I am very grateful to the author of this book. It gave me wonderful ideas of how to use my own creativity to help me heal and overcome. Chrystine Oskana wrote that a survivor needs the 3 C's: Courage, Creativity and Commitment. This book certainly follows in this tradition and also gives very important information to help dispel the lies and the programming from the cults.

With the guidance of this book, I finally feel I can heal, overcome and build a newer and better life. I can finally learn to live free.

This is an excellent guide for survivors of ritual abuse. It is gentle and understanding, and would be particularly helpful for survivors who have only recently started to remember their past and those who need to be careful about reading anything that might accidentally trigger a memory. It has just enough information about ritual abuse to make it somewhat less mystifying, but doesn't have any horrifying details. Instead, it concentrates on useful coping strategies. The suggestions on how to cope with the multiple personality disorder that frequently accompanies ritual abuse are the most helpful I've read.

As one who has experienced Ritual abuse, I found this book to be most helpful in understanding my questions and feelings that have been traveling through my mind. I found many of the exercises in the book to be practical and was thankful that the author put warning notations on sections that could potentially be unsafe for those of us in various stages of our healing process. This is a great book for anyone who is starting out on that healing trail.

My spouse is MPD from Satanic ritual abuse. This book has helped me more than any other so far in dealing with it. I have shared the book with our therapist. I need it so often, I must buy another for him. I gently read a page here or there to my spouse as needed. It has been a God-send. We will try to plant our garden next Spring if we are far enough along by then. Thank you and God bless.

This is a great book for any one who has suffered from ritual satanic abuse as it answers many questions. The author has indicated in the margin when the text may be of a sensitive nature. I to loved the description of the garden, and hope to have one myself one day.

This is a very powerful book dealing with a subject that is very controversial -- but true. There are few resources available on the subject of ritual abuse and spirituality. This book addresses both in a very sensitive and insightful way.

Despite those who claim this never happens, there are those of us who have "recovered" memories of abuse and ritual abuse completely outside of therapy - some of us had therapists who didn't believe. Some of us have never been in therapy. For those of us who know our own truth, it is an incredibly painful journey to heal - but it can be done.
No book can satisfy all the possible ways that healing can happen nor cover everything that works for each individual, but this seems like a good one with good ideas. Use the exercises and use caution. Remember not everything works for everyone - every survivor will be different...

I work with a client who survived ritual abuse from a Christian cult. Although this book describes the different types of ritual abuse, it only gives examples from Satanic abuse. This is where the book suffers greatly. In order to be more accesible to the wide range of ritual abuse survivors, the author could have done more interviews with people who survived the other types of ritual abuse that she defines.

There is a lot of good advice for therapists that can be applied to various clients in this book, but the narrow scope of the examples impedes its application. A lot of issues around ritual abuse is overlooked because of the book's focus on evil and Satanism. Hopefully, the author would consider a rewrite of the book with a more general focus. Discussions on the role of religion in healing and work with people who experience anxiety at a specific time of the day are among the topics that could be addressed.

I have really enjoyed this book! I have been learning a lot for my own healing. The reason I bought it was because a few months back I was able to read a portion of the book and I was hooked! I think this book is a must read for people struggling with ritual abuse!!

Reaching for the Light takes a very simple approach to a complex subject. Emilie Rose certainly researched ritual abuse well for having known about her own abuse for only one year prior to writing this book. In my opinion it takes years of therapy and intensive work to fully understand the damage done and the path to healing for the deep problems within. Any therapist who has worked with a ritual abuse victim for more than a year would not get anything from this book. Neither would anyone who has been in this hellhole beyond the initial discovery stage. My advice is to skip this book.