Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery by Catherine Gildiner

3 reviews

kalyna_jayn's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Grief, Colonisation, and Classism

botanicalprofanity's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Colonisation

alee02's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

This book really stuck with me long after I read it. It was really moving. But be forewarned that Alana’s story contains some of the most graphic descriptions of child sexual abuse I’ve ever encountered, which can be really triggering and difficult to get through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Colonisation