book excerpt
"Fire and Water: A Safe Journey Through Multiple Personality Disorder" is a true account of discovery, validation, and healing from sexual and ritual abuse. Anna Thomas writes her therapeutic memoir with deep insight from a Christian perspective about the emotional, physical, spiritual, and psychological aspects of coping with multiple personality and the reality of ritual abuse. From reading this book,you will gain: An understanding of the depth of despair, terror, rage, and self-hatred that comes from a childhood of ritual abuse; Realization of the need to face painful feelings in order to discover one's truth and one's past; To know what it is like to live with multiple personality, both before and after one acknowledges one's other personalities; Recognition of the importance of being believed by one's therapist; An appreciation for what a powerful soothing effect a compassionate husband can have, and the toll that this level of abuse takes on loved ones; An awareness of the enormous gift that a prior abuser bestows by validating a victim's abuse; A reverence for the central place of spiritual faith for healing from a childhood of sexual and ritual abuse
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