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| If I Can Survive My Life...You Can Survive Yours | 
| Author: Ann Whitman
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Category: Book
Buy New: $21.67
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 4781942
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 187
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 1413767559
Dewey Decimal Number: 153
EAN: 9781413767551
ASIN: 1413767559
Publication Date: April 25, 2005
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Condition: Brand New. Delivery is usually 5 - 8 working days from order, International is by Royal Mail Airmail
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Product Description
Sarah is a fifty-year-old woman and through her faith in God has survived many challenges that have come her way. At six days old she stopped breathing, at three she was kidnapped. By the time she was seven she was molested and again at the age of nine. Her mom left her when she was ten. Her adopted dad left her to be raised by strangers until she was fifteen, when her mom came back into the picture. Then as time came for her to get involved with men she always picked the wrong ones. Her whole life she has suffered some kind of mishap but she still saw a light at the end of the tunnel. There were a couple of times she almost gave up and gave in but now as she looks through her pictures of life she's glad that she didn't.
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 Searching for Peace Within May 27, 2005
Sarah had a very abusive and chaotic childhood. She grew up thinking she was not worth much and was sexually abused quite often by various males throughout her childhood.
This was a tremendously difficult story to read through as it goes into detail about various abusive incidents. Sarah is the main character and after awhile, I pondered whether there would ever be hope found in this story.
She and her siblings spent the majority of their life moving from one location to the next, and never had the opportunity to settle in and experience stability. Her mother was also abusive towards her and at one point abandoned the children.
Sarah married at a very young age, and found herself in a horribly abusive marriage. Sarah went from one relationship to another, even while married. She moved from one home to another, uprooting her children each time in an attempt to gain some sort of stability and normalcy. However, the effects of the abuse were far reaching on both Sarah and her children; the effects of the cycle of abuse in this family were even felt on Sarah's grandchildren.
This story speaks candidly about the truth of the effects on a victim of domestic violence. Each person in this family learned to cope and survive the abuse in their own way. Often times, sex, drugs, and alcohol were used as coping mechanisms. In the end, Sarah's body could no longer cope and threatened to shut down completely, causing her to consider her own needs above the needs of others, for the first time in her life.
Ann Whitman's book, If I Can Survive My Life...You Can Survive Yours, underscores the necessity of domestic violence agencies and programs in every community. If one person consumed in this cycle cannot find their way out of the abuse and break the cycle, it will continue for future generations.
Though this book is no easy read, I recommend that anyone who is interested in pursuing a career in the field of domestic violence read it. This is largely because the reader is taken on a very real and truthful journey, and witnesses first hand through Ann Whitman's writings, what domestic violence is truly about. No reader, having finished this book, will be able to put it down, ignore its contents, and still maintain a clear conscience.
This book drives the reader to a level of contemplating how they might be able to help those who suffer abuse each day in our society. It brings the reader to a level of understanding that one would not think possible. I highly recommend this book be read by those pursuing social work on any level.
Kelli G. Deister
Author of: Embracing the Storm: Jewels for Victims of Domestic Violence
 When women survive... May 4, 2005
If I Can Survive My Life...you can survive yours, by Ann Whitman, is an atrocious story of continual abuse, neglect, and malevolency. The main character Sarah, has suffered through her entire life with sexual and emotional abuse of every kind. In every corner of her life there is a barrier of wickedness that attempts to break her spirit. There are not enough words to describe the heart wrenching circumstances that as a child she endures, as a teen she encounters, and as an adult she mourns.
One can only speculate as to how this woman is able to make it through another day with the ability to trust anyone. Ann Whitman captures the thoughts of Sarah superbly with the ending. It leaves the mind much to ponder at the society and how it has evolved.
Sarah learns that there is hope at the end of the tunnel, but in her life it comes at a great cost. Her belief in God kept her going; her faith kept her strong. Her poignant tale ends on a tear jerking note as Sarah fingers the cover of an old worn photo album, which reads, This Is Your Life. No longer will she add photos of her own children for they were lost to a system that was meant to protect, yet she find herself yet victimized again for having married a man full of darkness abusing her own son.
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