If you are someone who has ever asked yourself “if they were assaulted why did they act like everything was fine?”, or “why didn’t they report it sooner/at all?” or “If they were being abused why didn’t they just leave?” If you ponder these things, if you genuinely want the answers, I have them for you!

The answers can be found in two books…

Trauma and Recovery by Dr Judith Herman
Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s memoir Nobody’s Girls

And I’d highly recommend reading them in that order.

I need to warn you, these are tough reads. They contain stories of the worst of humanity, they are graphic.

If you want to understand how the human mind manages trauma, those books are where the knowledge lies.