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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...

    Excerpt from  Staying Safe While Sheltering in Place  (Schnuelle, Adams, & Henderson) (written as one of our pandemic books, much of the advice is pertinent even now) From chapter: You, Me, Staying at Home (Schnueel) Coping, Seriously As soon as practicalities were largely handled and as time stretched out, the themes that came up repeatedly boiled down to, “How do I not lose my mind?” Keeping one’s sanity lies in realizing this is an abnormal situation. In unprecedented circumstances, it is actually normal not to know what the hell is going on. We don’t live through world-wide novel virus pandemics\ often, and aren’t we all so thankful for that? In an abnormal situation, the usual routines will probably not work.  We have to do something new. Adapting to what is happening right now, instead of trying to impose the old ‘normal,’ will probably work better. Get relentlessly practical and find a new normal: here is what we can do today. Now we go to school ...

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  Excerpt from Staying Safe While Sheltering in Place (Schnuelle, Adams, & Henderson) Introduction (by Hendereson) My eyes blinked open suddenly and I was immediately filled with dread, even terror! Now wide awake and worried, I envisioned a stay-at-home order being issued when I was a child. How would I have survived? I was immediately filled with fear as I imagined what it might have been like to be unable to escape the abuses of my father. Of course, my next thought was for all the children, women, girlfriends, or anyone else who might now be stuck at home with a person who is dangerous, someone who instills fear in their victims day and night. What is happening to these children? What is happening to whole families who are in lock-down with someone who can, has, and probably will hurt them, possibly fatally? I started talking to people, starting with my sisters. The thought of it was so awful they couldn’t really discuss it, but one of them, who has worked for years in...