Inside the Pain and Power of Healing a Broken Family: Stephanie Weaver’s Bitter, Sweet Revealed
Bitter, Sweet: How to Heal Yourself When Your Family Is Broken (Woodhall Press; April 2026) by Stephanie Weaver explores the devastating impact of child sexual abuse (CSA) on its survivors. A hybrid self-help memoir, the first part of the book details Weaver’s realization that she was a victim of CSA and, more horrifyingly, at the hands of her own father.
The second part of the book reviews what Weaver did to heal her relationship with herself. She tries formal therapy, religious groups, and alternative healing modalities, which she details at length. Weaver does all this work in the late 80s and 90s, when cultural acceptance and understanding about trauma, therapy and alternative healing methods was not as common as it is now, making it all the more impressive an examination.
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