These painful accounts will break anyone’s heart, and also inspire awe for the ways people who suffered horrific abuse were able to find a measure of recovery. ONE OF Newsweeks 30 THOUGHTFUL BOOKS TO GIFT.

Good Morning Monster offers an almost novelistic, behind-the-scenes look into the therapists office, illustrating how the process can heal even the most unimaginable wounds. In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiners presents five. Gildiners account of her journeys with them is moving, insightful, and sometimes very funny. Their stories exemplify the resiliency of the human mind and spirit. The patients experienced varied traumatic events and used different techniques in their work with Gildiner. Of them, nine-year-old Laura was abandoned by her sociopathic father in a Canadian winter and left to raise her younger siblings Peter was locked away in an attic by his mother until his fifth birthday and terrorized by her thereafter, leading to impotence and the inability to have a normal romantic relationship Alana’s father began raping her at the age of four and forced her to have sex with his friends, causing dissociative identity disorder Danny was stripped of his Cree heritage and endured sexual assault by priests at a state-run school and Madeline was a brittle workaholic whose verbally and emotionally abusive mother conditioned her to believe she has no worth and is a “monster.” While each patient first comes to Gildiner with an immediate health concern, they all find healing by opening up, delving into their past to uncover former traumas, and finding forgiveness for those who have caused them harm. Publication Name: Good Morning, Monster : a Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery. Glennon Doyle, A Favorite Book of 2020 on Good Morning America Gildiner is. Good Morning, Monster (2020) chronicles some of the heroic patients therapist Catherine Gildiner worked with over the course of her practice. Clinical psychologist Gildiner ( Too Close to the Falls) shares heart-wrenching stories of child abuse in this pull-no-punches narrative about five of her patients.

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