The Voices are Loud and Make Me Shout

Monday, June 9, 2008

The Voices are Loud and Make Me Shout

The Voices are Loud & Make Me Shout is a memoir in poetic style, written for the recovery process of creatively applying a literary voice in imagery. This book seeks for others to understand the scope of the violence and exploitation of incest and child abuse perpetrated against its victims. It seeks to highlight to those suffering from incest and child abuse, as well as those professionals treating these individuals, the importance and emphasis of working with coping strategies coexisting within the person seeking resolution. It seeks to nurture one's own unique voice for self-expression in order to actualize victory over the violations. It is to share the creativity that saved a child strangling in abuse, so that others can know that healing and hope is still possible.

Written by Donna Eder, MA,

Foreword by Mary Lou Petty, MSW, LCSW

About the Author: Donna Eder is a published poet and internationally juried artist. She has a MA in Computing in Education from Columbia University, New York. Her lifelong passion is compassion and teaching.

Print Format: $19.95 (includes postage)

E-mail all orders and requests to: scribeEder@hotmail.com.

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Press Release

Family Secrets

April 2009 – CHICAGO, IL – Just in time, when you feel like you are going to burst from hiding your family secrets, comes a fresh and insightful book that explores the mind and voice of a child announcing her family secret of incest, abuse, and betrayal – The Voices are Loud and Make Me Shout (978-0-615-24944-5, Trade paperback, 63 pp, 5 x 8, $18.00).

As street and gun violence escalates against our youth, a still, more covert problem is being denied, violence in the home, where protectors are predators and victims go unnoticed and unheard. Yet, it is estimated that there are 60 million survivors of childhood sexual abuse in America (Forward, 1993). Somehow, the children are left behind, victims shamed into silence.

The Voices are Loud and Make Me Shout is written to allow the inner child to have a voice. This book is different because the child tells her story from her own unleashed voice. It is quite risky to announce the secrets, but is quite necessary to find peace and healthy relationships.

Donna Eder, writes in a brazen poetic form that acknowledges and validates her pain. Her voice transforms her solitude of secrecy to awaken hope and empowerment. She speaks for those still unable to.

The Voices are Loud and Make Me Shout is a book to help other childhood trauma survivors envision a way out of their own shame and silence. It is a tool for professionals to realize the positive growth, healing, and purposeful change possible in the population.