Reaching for the Light: A Guide for Ritual Abuse Survivors and Their Therapists (Paperback)

by Emilie P. Rose (Author) "The very fact that you are recognizing that you are/might be a ritual abuse survivor means that you have some amount of safety and support..." (more)
Key Phrases: breathe out the fear, ritual abuse, programming messages, Does God, D'in Torah, Frederick Buechner (more...)

Editorial Reviews

Review
Compassionate, sensitive, and non-triggering, Reaching For The Light is a step-by-step guide to understanding, and effectively dealing with, the impact of ritual and cult abuse. Written by a survivor of ritual abuse, Reaching For The Light includes a helpful glossary of medical terms as well as definitions of ritual abuse and multiple-personality disorder. Also included are numerous survivor stories, in which those who have experienced ritual abuse share their challenges -- and their triumphs. Reaching For The Light seeks to transform lives of woundedness and pain into lives of healing and love. Reaching for the Light is a needed book for a difficult subject. It deserves a place in every self-help, mental health, and pastoral counseling reference shelf. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 241 pages
• Publisher: Pilgrim Press (October 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 082981079X
• ISBN-13: 978-0829810790
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #754,192 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books for survivors, July 3, 2000

By A Customer

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.

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent guide for survivors of ritual abuse, August 25, 1998

By A Customer

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.

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For the Healing trail, March 4, 2003

By	Susan Kaye Behm (USA) - See all my reviews

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.