Sances, Melissa Karen

Overview "Trauma is like an exclamation point internalized as a question mark. After being sexually abused as a child, I'd always wondered what was around the corner; I'd always braced against how it might hurt me. As a young adult, I'd often put myself at risk to muffle that eternal question What happened to me? and convince myself that I didn't know, didn't care. Still, I wondered who I could have been, who I would have become, without it. When I examined the abuse as a sober adult in trauma...