I expected this book to be about hope, which it was, but along with the hope was a detailed and uncomfortable retelling of several stories of abuse, including the authors’ own abuse story. Basically if you have anything wrong with you as an adult, you were abused in some way as a child. Um, okay, thanks, but how do I overcome that and have “hope rising”? It’s not by doing the worksheets in the book, at least if you bought it on audible. They didn’t bother including those, and as fun as it is to listen to someone read every line on a worksheet you can’t have… they should have just skipped those chapters for the audio book version. I didn’t leave this book feeling hopeful and inspired. Quite the opposite really. Such a bummer.
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