About the Book

It's Time To Heal (Helping, Educating, Answering and Learning)- A New Way To Live Your Life...After Abuse is a book about a woman's journey in order to heal from sexual, emotional and physical abuse as a child and adolescent. The book entails strategies that other women can use in order to heal from their own abuse. It also gives professionals an inside look at the way victims of abuse often look at themselves, how they tend to feel about what has happened to them and how it affects them on an everyday basis. The book also provides various hands-on approaches to dealing with ways to release the pain, anger and other debilitating effects that are so common to those who have been abused. The content of the book is made up of poems, affirmations, and journal exercises. The author candidly reveals her life story and painstakingly unravels the journey she took to rebuild her life. Walk with her through the sadness, fear and tremendous courage of a woman determined to conquer her past.

It's Time To Heal (Helping, Educating, Answering and Learning)- A New Way To Live Your Life...After Abuse has five major sections within the book to help guide the reader through the journey that the Author has taken in order to heal from the trauma of abuse.

Unit One: Primary Healing- describes ways in order to overcome suicidal thoughts/actions, being a victim, confusion, anger, forgiving oneself and others, remembering the abuse, flashbacks, blame, trust, taking risks and releasing the anger.

Unit Two: Secondary Healing- focuses on nightmares, boundaries, clothing, speaking out about the abuse, friends, allowing oneself to grieve, why the secret took so long to tell, isolation and releasing more anger.

Unit Three: Personal Healing- explores areas in which most survivors have not been able to allow themselves to experience. Pampering oneself, releasing stress and relaxing, appreciating women and men, getting to know yourself in a healthy sexual way, feelings towards men, intimacy in your primary relationship, saying the words "I love you", positive thinking, the inner child and pleasing oneself instead of others.

Unit Four: Enlightenment Healing- this section offers strategies for living in the moment and not in the past, developing positive changes for the future by believing in oneself, promoting acceptance.

Unit Five: Lifetime Healing- provides an opportunity for the reader to put all the skills learned throughout the book into everyday practice. Rebuilding your life, understanding spiritually, promises to yourself and your bill of rights.

It's Time To Heal (Helping, Educating, Answering and Learning)- A New Way To Live Your Life...After Abuse offers numerous ways to heal from the trauma of abuse and several methods to re-establish a life full of happiness, acceptance as well as a chance to rebuild a positive future.

About the Author

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Heather is married with four children and resides in the Toronto, Ontario area. she is a Child and Youth Worker with over 25 years experience supporting children, young people and adults who lack a sense of self-worth. She has worked with hundreds of children who were not able to defend themselves nor were they able to speak out about their troubled lives. Many were unable to make good choices for themselves. She has provided a safe place for individuals to learn how to like who they are and helped make a difference in their lives. Heather has worked in a Treatment Centre for emotionally challenged children, was a supervisor for a Group Home for teenage young offenders, a Foster Parent in her home for females at risk in the community, devoting her time to helping young female teens stay off the streets. Heather has taught courses on positive parenting techniques with parents in order to develop a supportive environment for their child. For the past twelve years Heather has worked in the school setting, assisting young children on how to cope with anger management, peer relationships, self-esteem, and family issues that affect the child's ability to perform at school

Having come from both a dysfunctional family and several foster homes, Heather has first hand knowledge of the daily challenges faced by those in vulnerable situations. She has dedicated her life to helping others find their voice.

The book also includes many poems that express my feelings...

What H.E.A.L. Means To Me...

Helping - To destroy the barriers and stigma that are associated with abuse by tearing down the walls that prevent us from seeing the world in a positive way.

Educating - Oneself to allow the doors to be opened that were once locked or barricaded; and by developing skills that will enlighten the world around you.

Answering - Those difficult questions that burn within and finding the answers that were never provided by the world around you. Discovering answers that lie deep within you, like a buried treasure, waiting to be found.

Learning - To rebuild your life, one step at a time; by learning to discover, that you are not alone and that you do, "have a voice."

Coming soon is Heather Mesaric's second book in the series... To be released in early part of 2007

"Reflections From Within"--- Helping You...Find Your Voice --- A Companion Book for: It's Time To H.E.A.L. - A New Way To Live Your Life After Abuse

"Reflections From Within"... is for women who want a guided book to help them complete the exercises and affirmations -- by providing the reader with a step by step - question by question - approach to the exercises and affirmations that are offered throughout her book. "Reflections From Within"... helps the reader to focus on the exercises in a concise manner and provides affirmations that can be photocopied or cut out and used on a daily basis.

Excerpts

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