REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse

By Marjorie McKinnon

Health, Mind & Body

Self-Help and Personal Development

Language: English Not Rated (NR)

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R.E.P.A.I.R. is a Six-Stage Program for abuse survivors that will transform your life forever!

• Recognize and accept your adult problems stemming from childhood sexual abuse.
• Enter into a commitment to transform your life.
• Process your issues with tools and techniques that will enable you to become healthy.
• Awareness to discover reality as you gather and assemble the pieces of the broken puzzle your life became.
• Insight into the complete picture helps you begin to return to what you were prior to being sexually violated.
• Rhythm recovers the natural rhythm you had before the incest happened, the blueprint that is the essence of your true nature, becoming who you really are.

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, Margie McKinnon has assembled a highly effective program of recovery.” —Bob Rich, PhD

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Reviewed by Kam Aures for RebeccasReads

"REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse" by Marjorie McKinnon is an easy-to-follow guide to enable those abused to head down the path to recovery. She states "the purpose of this program is to send you into the world with useful tools for recovery. You will not read this book and get healed immediately. It contains exercises as well as thought-provoking questions that will plant seeds. These seeds will turn into blossoms, giving you direction and guidance in a world that at times will seem dark." (p.27) McKinnon, however, is not a therapist, and unlike some of the professionals in the field, she had been abused and has had a successful recovery. What better person to learn from than one who has been through the same situations and has gone through the journey of recovery with positive results?

McKinnon begins the book by chronicling her own personal experiences with incest and the recovery process. She presents her story as "a classic example" and mainly focuses on the resulting ramifications of being abused. For her, the abuse led her to enter abusive relationships, wreaked emotional havoc on her life, and caused her to have a poor self-image, among other things.

Her own recovery was approximately a five-year process, and from her experiences she developed the REPAIR program based on the steps and techniques that worked best for her. REPAIR consists of six different stages: Recognize, Enter, Process, Awareness, Insight, and Rhythm. McKinnon devotes a chapter to each stage in an attempt to successfully guide the reader through the transformation process.

The information in the book is presented in a direct manner, which is very easy to comprehend. The writing does not consist of a lot of technical terms that are hard for the average person to understand. The book is written by a regular person, and intended for an average, regular person to read. This is one thing that makes McKinnon's book stand apart other books addressing this same topic. "REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse" is a book that would be beneficial to anyone who has suffered from sexual abuse, anyone who knows someone who has been abused, and those individuals who deal with victims