April 9 Book Release : You Are Safe Now

Here’s what happened.

More than a dozen years ago, my husband died unexpectedly, and the blog I had been writing briefly went viral. I wrote a million words, I had thousands of conversations, and I authored a few books. At the same time, I spent an hour or more with my therapist each week, where we unpacked a hidden level of trauma that I wasn’t talking about anywhere else.

For years, I had been targeted and groomed by a serial sexual predator. In the weeks after my husband died, my abuser manipulated my vulnerability, trapped me in a toxic web, and sexually exploited me.

Those are a dozen layers of horrifying, and it’s further complicated by the facts that the predator was a caregiver, a leader in a position of trust, and a woman.

My expert therapist, Jana Richardson, who is trained in trauma, grief, addiction, and EMDR, counseled me to write my story in the pages of my journal. I wrote for hours, days, weeks, and years, until finally I could say out loud what had happened. And that’s when Jana and I realized that the pages of my notebooks held a guidebook for healing from manipulation, spiritual abuse, and sexual exploitation.

Through the next three years, Jana and I co-authored a groundbreaking book. I wrote through the trauma, and Jana wrote through the treatment of abuse, recovery, and freedom. Peer-reviewed by mental-health professionals, this book provides honesty, clarity, hope, and healing. This book is a vaccine in the face of an epidemic, as it promotes our best defense against abuse: knowledge and awareness of how it begins, how we can end it, and how we can heal from it.

If you are in a toxic relationship,
if you are a professional seeking to treat someone in recovery,
or if you love someone who is on a path to healing and you seek to understand their road,
this is the book you need.

We believe it will be a groundbreaking resource, and we are eager to get this into your hands.

This free event includes readings from both authors, signings, and my new curated talk: This Is How It Happens.

Join us on Tuesday, April 9, for the official release of You Are Safe Now.

Wild Blue Coffee

Cherry Hills Community Church

Highlands Ranch, Colorado

6:00 pm

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Tricia has written fifteen books in the last thirteen years. She has authored six titles under her own name and nine titles as a ghostwriter in collaboration with other authors, including an Invictus Gold Medalist, an Emmy award-winning journalist, and a candidate for President of the United States. Her work has appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list, and she has written with Penguin Random House, St. Martin’s Press, LifeWay, Tyndale, and NavPress. Tricia’s newest book is called You Are Safe Now: A Survivor’s Guide to Listening to Your Gut, Healing from Abuse, and Living in Freedom.