REPAIR For Teens: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse
By Marjorie McKinnon and Michal Splho
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R.E.P.A.I.R. is a Six-Stage Program for abuse survivors that will transform your life forever!
REPAIR for Teens recognizes the unique issues confronting adolescent abuse survivors including peer pressure, difficulties with school, acting out, the urge to self-soothe with cutting or unhealthy eating behaviors, running away and the possibility of living with an abuser in the family. Remember, 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys have been sexually assaulted by the age of 18. No teenager should be alone in trying to sort out their life after sexual abuse.
Therapists' Acclaim for REPAIR Your Life
"Thank you Marjorie and God bless you for adapting this program for our survivors to follow. You have given survivors hope to continue on their healing journey."
--Donna Gustafson, Executive Director, Sunrise Center Against Sexual Abuse
"Anyone wanting to recover from the life-long trauma of childhood sexual abuse will benefit from this book."
--Marcelle B. Taylor, MFT
"This program just has to work, because whether intuitively or through research, Marjorie McKinnon has assembled a highly effective program of recovery."
--Bob Rich, PhD, www.anxietyanddepression-help.com
Please visit www.TheLampLighters.org for more information or to find a group in your area.
Special editions available for young people: ask your bookseller for "REPAIR for Kids" and "REPAIR forToddlers".
Another life-changing title from Loving Healing Press www.LHPress.com
SEL001530 Self-Help : Abuse - Sexual
SEL029000 Self-Help : Twelve-Step Programs
Marjorie McKinnon
Marjorie McKinnon has been writing since the age of thirteen, when she wrote poetry to hide her pain. Despite her father's confession in her mid-thirties about an incestuous relationship he'd had with her that began when she was thirteen, she had buried all memories of the childhood trauma. She had run away from home when she was eighteen and spent the next 27 years going from one abuser to another. During that time she was hospitalized twice for suicide attempts, spent time in a women's shelter and raised four children as a single mother. During recovery she wrote about her experience and what it was like to emerge on the other side of "the bridge of recovery." It is a chronicle of growing up in small Midwestern towns in a Catholic family and of hiding her anguish behind words, poetry that she termed her inner voices. It is also a detailed account of the journey one takes in going from a place of despair to one of joy. That book, titled I Never Heard A Robin Sing became her first attempt to publish. When Marjorie was half way through recovery she found out that her two older daughters had been sexually abused by her second husband. Her youngest daughter had been raped at gunpoint while working at a fast food place when she was 17. This so totally accents the reality that child sexual abuse is a multi-generational problem. Unable to sell her memoir, she spent several years writing other books: a fiction trilogy, two other novels, four volumes of poetry, and 14 non-fiction works, six of which have been pubished. Marjorie re-read her own first person account to re-walk the path she had taken. She never realized at the time how blessed she was, for that path, though rugged, was straight, and in retrospect provided her with invaluable help to spend three years creating the REPAIR program. Loving Healing Press has published six of her books: REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse, REPAIR For Kids, REPAIR For Toddler, REPAIR For Teens, REPAIR Your Life Workbook and It's Your Choice! Decisions That Will Change Your Life. Hello My Name is Marjorie, a book she is currently working on is an email account of her courtship with Tom McKinnon, her husband, who she met on the Internet while doing genealogy research on McKinnons (her name was also McKinnon). Tom did the illustrations for the two the children's versions of her REPAIR books. They now live in the Sedona, AZ area. Marjorie is also the founder of The Lamplighter Movement, a rapidly growing international movement for recovery from child sexual abuse that emphasizes the importance of REPAIRing the damage. Most of her chapters are using her REPAIR program as a model for recovery. Currently there are 92 Lamplighter Movement chapters in thirteen countries including 18 in Africa. Marjorie is trying to get Lamplighter chapters in all of the women's prisons. So far they have two, one in Chino, CA and one in Gadsden, Florida.She is also trying to get chapters established in high schools and women's shelters. The Lamplighter's website is at www.thelamplighters.org
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Reviews for REPAIR For Teens
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5If you or someone you care about is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, this book should prove invaluable to your recovery. Most people realize that childhood sexual abuse is traumatic, but not everyone understands or recognizes the serious and often life-long effects. The author of this valuable book, Marjorie McKinnon, has written extensively how survivors can work to move beyond the trauma of abuse. With hard work and patience, it can be done. She pulls no punches, and never trivializes the difficulty of dealing with this problem. She has set the program forward with a really useful acronym, REPAIR, to illustrate the steps a survivor and their friends and family or therapist needs to take to begin the process of healing. Written in a style that is very easy to understand and to follow, the survivor will work through 6 different steps to recovery. Numerous therapists have recommended this process, and I believe it could be an invaluable tool both for professionals and caring friends and family members of survivors. Any one wanting to move beyond the trauma of incest and childhood sexual abuse can find hope, healing and care within these pages. Information is also given about support groups and finding them, an invaluable resource that many people are unaware are available to them.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Melody McKinnon's Repair Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest and Childhood Sexual Abuse collects a variety of resources on self-healing from abuse into one volume. References include Codependent No More by Melody Beattie, Lerner's The Dance of Intimacy, and Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking. Repair Your Life's most striking contribution to the field is its focus on healing survivors of incest, and those who've despaired of finding anything practical on the subject will be relieved, even encouraged. For those with other experiences, the constant interchange of "incest" for "abuse" might be disorienting, but McKinnon has something to teach every survivor about coping with the aftermath of broken trust. Founder of The Lamplighters movement, and herself an incest survivor, McKinnon writes with common sense, compassion, and honesty. For someone newly committed to healing from their abuse, this would be a gentle introduction and solid overview.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This has some great techniques and some solid materials in it for recovery. It also insists that 12 step process plus therapy is the only way to recover. The checklists are great. As for the rest, I would say that it is worth reading with an open mind and a discerning heart. Use what works for you without getting caught up in the "shoulds" and "have tos" and go for the Serenity Prayer and the be in the moment now steps.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a very uplifting book for those suffering from childhood trauma and abuse. It presents exercises that can be used to help with recovery and post-recovery. The book should be used in conjunction with some other kind of therapy, and the author recommends finding a therapist or joining a group. Twelve Step groups are strongly recommended by the author, although the twelve steps are not for everyone. There is a helpful bibliography at the back of the book and the names of some groups and organizations that readers might find useful.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My copy of this book came from the LibraryThing early reviewer group. It strikes me that self help books are always unique in the writing and telling and also in the reading. Like any therapy, it is the sum of the experience and the perception that takes place in the act. Marjorie McKinnon shares her experiences in life and working through the REPAIR. She has poured considerable reflection and insight into evolving her life and leading the reader to consider a path to evolve their own life. I found it valuable and recommend reading this book to anyone, everyone actually.