Light in Bandaged Places: Healing in the Wake of Young Betrayal - Liz Kinchen

Written by Liz Kinchen
Read by Liz Kinchen
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Light in Bandaged Places shows us the harm done when an older man in a position of power convinces a child that sex with him is alright because he loves her. This poignant story takes us through the long-term wounding of such abuse, and the multifaceted path of healing.

As a lonely girl coming of age in the 1970s, Liz has every reason to believe her eighth-grade teacher is in love with her. Because the sex isn’t physically violent and is wrapped in a message of love, she learns to exchange sex for attention. But years later, as an adult, emotional closeness eludes Liz. Even after marrying a sensitive, caring man, she is walled off. Struggling through confusing years, she believes something is deeply wrong with her.

Healing begins when an unexpected event takes Liz back to those formative years, and she sees for the first time that what happened to her was not love but abuse. As she begins to understand how her relationship with her former teacher destroyed her innocence and self-worth, she begins a spiritual and psychological journey that sets her free.

Now a meditation teacher and Buddhist practitioner, Liz offers her story in hope of helping others along their own paths of discovery and healing.

01 - Opening Credits
02 - Dedication
03 - Author’s Note
04 - Epigraph & Chapter 1 Isolation and Silence
05 - Chapter 2 Finally, Friends
06 - Chapter 3 The Times They Are A-Changin
07 - Chapter 4 And So It Begins
08 - Chapter 5 Sweet Sixteen
09 - Chapter 6 Asking for Forgiveness, Just in Case
10 - Chapter 7 My Double Life
11 - Chapter 8 A Close Call
12 - Chapter 9 The Pressure Mounts
13 - Chapter 10 Breaking the Code of Secrecy
14 - Chapter 11 Betrayal
15 - Chapter 12 Men
16 - Chapter 13 Marriage
17 - Chapter 14 Black Energy
18 - Chapter 15 Lost Opportunity
19 - Chapter 16 In Love
20 - Chapter 17 The One-and-a-Half-Year Plan
21 - Chapter 18 An Abrupt Ending
22 - Chapter 19 Open and Closed
23 - Chapter 20 Marriage!
24 - Chapter 21 Motherhood and Conflict
25 - Chapter 22 Parenting and Therapy
26 - Chapter 23 Return to a Different Christianity
27 - Chapter 24 A Pivotal Event
28 - Chapter 25 Deep Therapy
29 - Chapter 26 Old Family Secrets
30 - Chapter 27 Seeing Clearly
31 - Chapter 28 Old Family Dysfunction
32 - Chapter 29 Death of My Mother
33 - Chapter 30 Death of My Sister and Brother
34 - Chapter 31 Rape Is Not Love
35 - Chapter 32 Sabbatical, Buddhism, and Rebirth
36 - Afterword
37 - Poem The Guest House
38 - Readers Guide
39 - Ending Credits
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