Core Healing: A Journey of Hope is the updated edition of Core Healing from Sexual Abuse: A Journey of Hope, and offers an opportunity for survivors of sexual abuse to begin a profound transformational journey. Designed for individual or group use, this workbook can help you understand areas impacted by sexual abuse and attain measurable goals for each phase of your unique restorative journey. Since the extensive damage of sexual abuse occurs at the core of a person’s being where it can’t be seen, Core Healing addresses core concerns, such as your sense of competence, identity, security, purpose, and belonging. Applying your work in Core Healing can help you resolve root issues fueling numb emotions, anxiety, depression, insecurity, or fear while illuminating positive biblical solutions. Each of the twelve chapters of this workbook has five sections; each section is designed for you to work on for about 30 minutes each day or whenever you have time. Some chapters have a bonus section to be completed during the weekend to explore possible impact of sexual abuse during each developmental stage, impact that can continue negative repercussions throughout subsequent stages of psychosocial development. This workbook doesn’t park on the problems but helps you experience restoration from developmental disruption, depression, anxiety, shame, or fear. Core Healing: A Journey of Hope provides continual opportunities for survivors of sexual abuse to heal and transform their lives, teaching you to move out of victim status and into life as a victor–a person who thrives. Whether you’re an individual who wants to work on your own to heal from sexual abuse or a professional (mental health counselor, psychotherapist, psychologist), or a pastor, priest, life coach, or lay counselor seeking to help others heal, Core Healing shows how to experience profound hope and authentic help. For those who are intimately acquainted with abuse survivors, this book can bring the deeper level of understanding necessary for new healing in relationships. Core Healing from Sexual Abuse: A Journey of Hope is also available in Spanish, Sanidad del Nucleo de Abuso Sexual: Un Viaje de Esperanza. Great news for all who are using Core Healing in groups: there is now a free downloadable facilitators’ guide available at www.pbcounseling.com/Resources. Be sure you click on the facilitators’ guide for Core Healing: A Journey of Hope, since that site also has another facilitators’ guide for the 2019 workbook, Core Healing from Trauma.
