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...

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...