"Invisible Witness: Healing From My Family's Legacy of Domestic Violence" #BookReview

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In this autobiographical book, author Elizabeth Nelson takes readers back to her early childhood when she witnessed her father abuse her mother and some of her siblings on several different occasions.

Ms. Nelson discusses the abuse only to set the backdrop for the rest of her story. She then goes on to talk about the multiple devastating effects that witnessing abuse had on her as she became an adult. As she discusses each issue, the author traces it back to its origin in order to understand and release it.

While it can be hard to read what the author and her family experienced, this book is not a woe-is-me tale of victimization.

Instead, the author shows readers how she coped with problems related to witnessing domestic violence as a child and eventually moved forward in life. Ms. Nelson tells her story in such a straightforward manner that readers may feel like they are sitting down for coffee with a new friend. While they may not have been safe in their childhood home, they are certainly safe between the pages of this emotionally powerful book.
 

Elizabeth Nelson is a pen name chosen by the author to protect her family from public recognition. This author has written extensively about narcissism and emotionally abusive relationships in the past, including a book on Amazon that is consistently ranked as one of the top five Kindle books in the co-dependency category.

Invisible Witness is a powerful emotional look at what happens to those that seem to be forgotten when we think or discuss abuse, in any form. When abuse occurs, it does indeed affect all.

As a society we still turn a blind eye to many forms of abuse, we still feel like we shouldn't get involved-that it is none of our business. This is a cycle that needs to be broken before this epidemic can be dealt with and healing can truly begin. The more silent we all are, the more people that become exposed to the life-long trauma, never to be able to fully recover.

All victims suffer in their own ways, some suffer with the abuse unleashed on them, some suffer from seeing the abuse inflicted on others, and others suffer from the memories of the unseen. In my opinion the hardest is the last. The unseen, this leaves a victim only possibly seeing the aftermath. The unseen leaves for a deeper fear of the unknowing. This type of trauma is the type that goes unnoticed or forgotten. Nobody thinks that if someone didn't see the abuse or feel the wrath of the abuser that there is no damage done. In fact, that is farthest from the truth.

Invisible Witness is a raw account of just that situation. You will feel the fear, the torment that the author went through-at least as close as you can to feeling the true emotions that the author had to endure. You will see how the abuse defines ones life, how the innocent become skewed into a different way of thinking, a different way of reacting to life.

The main thing that I took away from reading this book is that nobody is alone. That all forms of abuse can and will leave someone affected for the rest of their lives. That everyone deals with it differently, everyone's outcome is their own, but the abuse still is an important part of how one develops into their adulthood. It affects all aspects of life, your interactions with others, your reactions to events, your feelings, your tolerances, etc.

As I have stated abuse is an epidemic around the world, but sadly their are many more silent victims that go unnoticed-untreated and nobody seems to stand up for them. This book not only gives a powerful account of one of those victims survivors, it gives a platform for speaking about it. It takes a lot of strength to relive those accounts and share them- I admire the author for doing just that.

You can purchase your own copy of "Invisible Witness: Healing From My Family's Legacy of Domestic Violence" on Amazon.

I highly suggest reading and sharing this book to everyone in your life, this might be the start of stopping the epidemic before us.

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