Monday, May 23, 2016

There is hope for survivors to heal

This is Part 2 of "Hell, hope and healing," an NCR four-part series on sexual abuse. You can read previous entries on the feature series page Hell, hope and healing.

by Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea
Hell, hope and healing, Part 2: In the first article of this series I discussed the commonality and damage of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including clergy sexual abuse. Here, I focus on the hope that most trauma survivors can heal because of inherent or learned resilience and/or through access to healing resources.