WOMAN IN HIDING
A True Tale of Backdoor Abuse, Dark Secrets and Other Evil Deeds
 by Kathleen Hoy Foley

​Woman In Hiding is a haunting, first-person account of the destruction of a young girl’s spirit, and the story of how she overcame her past to speak out on behalf of herself and other women silenced by childhood trauma. Her story returns us to the 1960s, and takes place in central New Jersey. Here, inside a suburban home with roses meandering around the front door, John J. Allen, a popular, jovial man, beat his four sons with belts and destroyed all of Kathleen's physical and emotional boundaries, leaving her dangerously vulnerable as she entered adolescence.  When a sexual predator, an 18-year-old street punk, barged into her life demanding compliance, the under-age Kathleen was defenseless.  Primed under her step-father's tutelage, she became a perfect victim, enduring rape and physical and emotional abuse without complaint. 

Breaking Through Silence
A No Nonsense love letter to women.
by Kathleen Hoy Foley

​So many of our mothers, grandmothers, aunts, cousins, friends; so many of the elderly women sitting in church on Sundays; so many of us are the silent, unseen victims of past sexual assault.  If we hide this unspeakable, if we do not even recognize or admit the abuse we suffered, we are unknowingly living under the shadow-damage of trauma.  Trauma secretly breaks women. 
 
One out of three baby girls born today will be sexually assaulted before she reaches eighteen.  That little one is the broken, silenced woman of the future.  She too will bear our burden of secret trauma.
 
It does not have to be for that little girl.  It does not have to be for us.  It begins with: Breaking Through Silence.
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