The authors are psychotherapists who created this book as a companion/ workbook to the DVD Common Threads: Stories of Life After Trauma. Their reasons for this project is to provide a teaching tool for individuals and professionals. Their goal is to promote increased understanding about the long term effects of child abuse on individuals, families and our society. Cultivating Hope suggests therapeutic techniques to decrease the symptoms associated with PTSD and complex trauma, identify sexually abused children and what we can do as a community to protect them from additional unintentional trauma. This is a must read for teachers, medical professionals, counseling students and individuals and families whose lives have been touched by domestic violence, sexual abuse, family disruption and loss. Perfect for college classes, community education, discussion groups and individual healing. Cultivating Hope With Abuse Survivors will not disappoint. Used with the DVD this is a complete educational packet that will provide weeks of education for mental health and nursing professionals. Recommended by Richard Schwartz, founder of Internal Family System's Therapy.

The authors of this book are the people whose lives have been affected by this disease; OM warriors, family members, friends and care givers. Ocular Melanoma is a rare cancer of the eye. Seven people in a million will be diagnosed with this cancer this year. Fifty percent of those diagnosed will have metastasis to the liver, lungs and other organs. Many of warriors of OM die. This book is a fund raiser. The profit from this book will be donated to CURE OM, an organization dedicated to funding the research that will find a cure for ocular melanoma. Rare cancers, like OM rely on the funding of individuals and organizations like CURE OM. Help us find a cure.