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Rid of My Disgrace: Hope and Healing for Victims of Sexual Assault is unavailable, but you can change that!

The statistics are jarring. One in four women and one in six men have been sexually assaulted. But as sobering as these statistics are, they can't begin to speak to the darkness and grief experienced by the victims. The church needs compassionate and wise resources to care for those living in the wake of this evil. Other books attempt to address the journey from shame to healing for victims of...

used to reconstruct the victim’s identity. However, these self-enhancements end up being only “homemade rituals.”2 The truth is we are powerless to heal ourselves. Research shows that self-help actually results in self-harm. Self-help statements have been found to be ineffective and even harmful because “they may even backfire, making some people feel worse rather than better.”3 If the positive self-statement does not “stick,” the result is to return to one’s original negative self-perception and
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