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  Recently released: audiobook edition of  Staying Safe While Sheltering in Place  by Schnuelle, Adams, and Henderson. Book description: Staying Safe While Sheltering in Place: A Lifeline for Victims Trapped at Home When home is not a safe place, where can you turn—especially during a crisis like a pandemic lockdown? In this vital and accessible guide, licensed mental health professionals Melissa Adams, LCSW, LIMHP, and Shari Schnuelle, LIMHP, LPC, offer real-life insights into what it’s like to be quarantined with an abuser. With compassion and clarity, they share practical, actionable strategies to protect yourself and your children from further harm—even when escape isn’t an option. Originally created to support survivors during COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders, this book remains urgently relevant for anyone currently living in an abusive or high-conflict household. With a powerful introduction by trauma survivor Geri Henderson, Ph.D.,  Surviving Domestic Abuse Wh...

  Recently released: audiobook edition of  Staying Safe While Sheltering in Place  by Schnuelle, Adams, and Henderson. Book description: Staying Safe While Sheltering in Place: A Lifeline for Victims Trapped at Home When home is not a safe place, where can you turn—especially during a crisis like a pandemic lockdown? In this vital and accessible guide, licensed mental health professionals Melissa Adams, LCSW, LIMHP, and Shari Schnuelle, LIMHP, LPC, offer real-life insights into what it’s like to be quarantined with an abuser. With compassion and clarity, they share practical, actionable strategies to protect yourself and your children from further harm—even when escape isn’t an option. Originally created to support survivors during COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders, this book remains urgently relevant for anyone currently living in an abusive or high-conflict household. With a powerful introduction by trauma survivor Geri Henderson, Ph.D.,  Surviving Domestic Abuse Wh...

  Recently released: audiobook edition of Staying Safe While Sheltering in Place by Schnuelle, Adams, and Henderson. Book description: Staying Safe While Sheltering in Place: A Lifeline for Victims Trapped at Home When home is not a safe place, where can you turn—especially during a crisis like a pandemic lockdown? In this vital and accessible guide, licensed mental health professionals Melissa Adams, LCSW, LIMHP, and Shari Schnuelle, LIMHP, LPC, offer real-life insights into what it’s like to be quarantined with an abuser. With compassion and clarity, they share practical, actionable strategies to protect yourself and your children from further harm—even when escape isn’t an option. Originally created to support survivors during COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders, this book remains urgently relevant for anyone currently living in an abusive or high-conflict household. With a powerful introduction by trauma survivor Geri Henderson, Ph.D., Surviving Domestic Abuse While Sheltering ...

    Excerpt from  Healing from Incest   by Geri Henderson and Seanne Emerton: Funeral   Looking at him lying there, at peace for the first time in his life no doubt, I knew that anything we'd shared, good or bad, was over. There was a feeling of complete separation and release that surprised me. I expected to feel something, seeing my father’s body—at least, to sense a familiar dread and fear—but those feelings simply were not there. The lack of feeling, positive or negative, was another new experience. There was nothing more to fear, and I had no regret that our journey together had ended as it had. It was not the end that I had read about or was told is healthy for such relationships. There was no great apology, no dramatic separation, and no therapeutic confrontation. Just an end to what had been a terrible and long journey of struggle and hope.   (I have now realized, that there were many things that came to an end that day, but there are others...