Let the More Loving One Be Me: My Journey from Trauma to Freedom

In this compelling tale, Judy Foreman reveals the terror she felt every night as a girl as she lay in bed frozen in dread, listening for her fathers footsteps coming down the hall. She recalls his mostly naked body, his stale smell, his silhouette in the bedroom doorway. Worse, in some ways, was her mothers denialher insistence that this man was wonderful, her refusal to acknowledge his drinking or his rage. It wasnt until Foreman spent a high school summer as an exchange student with a Danish family that she began to see how unsafe her own family was; it wasnt until she went to an all-womens college that she realized that women had value. Ultimately, this book shows that with time and therapy, it is possible to heal from serious childhood trauma and lead a life of deep fulfillment, rewarding work and, most wonderfully, love. It is a book about the power of emotional courage to change ones own inner and outer experience of the world, and about what matters most in life: cultivating healthy connections to other people. See more