Designed Determined Destined To Succeed

This book was written by Dr. Gail James, a certified clinical therapist and public speaker. It's set in the contemporary world and the theme suits everywhere else. The book focusses on what healthy relationships should entail while illuminating the toxic ones. Dr. James tells her personal experience growing in a large toxic family. She reveals sad reality which envelopes many homes where sexual offenders are people known to us or even worse, our relatives. She's severally molested by her brothers and when the issue surfaces, she takes the blame instead for exposing the secret. The mother negotiates to secure lesser punishment for the son who should face severe sentencing for molesting a minor and committing incest. Relocation to a group home by authorities worsens her problems. She reveals opportunists who thrive on miseries when she seeks refuge in a man who at the onset becomes her saviors but who eventually abuse and traumatize her. Read more