SERVICES

WAAR touches the lives of 12,500 people each year through a continuum of trauma-informed care, as well as community education and advocacy. Learn more about the services we offer.

PODCASTS

We offer a variety of podcasts covering topics such as noticing signs of abusive relationships and healing from the effects of an abusive relationship.

Signs & Healing from Abusive Relationships

PRESENTER: Teryn O'Brien

DATE: 02/24/17


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Avoiding Narcisstic Abuse

PRESENTER: Ross Rosenberg

DATE: 09/02/17


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The Difference Between Healthy and Unhealthy Love

PRESENTER: Katie Hood

DATE: 06/11/19


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Skills for Healthy Romantic Relationships

PRESENTER: Joanne Davila

DATE: 11/17/15


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4 Habits of ALL Successful Relationships

PRESENTERS: Dr.Andrea & Jonathan Taylor-Cummings

DATE: 06/21/19


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Healing from Post Traumatic Stress

PRESENTER: Stephanie Lyn

DATE: 09/24/19


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BOOKS

We also offer a selection of books that contain stories, advice and guidance to inspire confidence and healing.

Healing from the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse

This book by a family therapist shares stories from 18 women abused as children, explaining that healing can occur at any stage of life, and that healing, itself, occurs in stages.


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The Courage to Heal

The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and a map of the healing journey to every woman who was sexually abused as a child - and to those who care about her.


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Recover and Rebuild Domestic Violence Workbook

The Recover and Rebuild Domestic Violence Workbook is an easy-to-use workbook full of healing exercises and journaling prompts to empower survivors of abusive relationships.


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The Verbally Abusive Relationship

You'll get more of the answers you need to recognize abuse when it happens, respond to abusers safely and appropriately, and most important, lead a happier, healthier life.


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The Emotionally Abusive Relationship

In this book, Beverly Engel clearly and with caring offers step-by-step strategies to stop emotional abuse. . . helping both victims and abusers to identify the patterns of this painful and traumatic type of abuse. This book is a guide both for individuals and for couples stuck in the tragic patterns of emotional abuse.


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Gaslighting: Pratical Guide to Discriminate Emotionally Abusive People, Avoid Hidden Manipulation and Cultivate Healthy Relationship

Gas-lighting is a type of psychological manipulation wherein a person subverts someone else's reality by denying clear truths, the global environment, or their feelings. The reason for gas-lighting is regularly to compel someone else to encounter or acknowledge a substitute reality.


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