The Flying Child – A Cautionary Fairytale for Adults: Finding a purposeful life after Child Sexual Abuse through compassionate and creative therapy: 1: 0

The Flying Child – Finding a purposeful life after Child Sexual Abuse through compassionate and creative therapy – A Cautionary Fairy-tale for Adults, published in 2024 by ZunTold. Sophie Olson, CSA survivor, activist and founder of The Flying Child CIC, couldn’t speak about the abuse she endured as a child, and was about to give up on therapy altogether, when her therapist and co-author, said something which would change everything. ‘As I was walking out the door, Pat said to me, “Try writing it as a fairy story. Try detaching from it altogether. Start with the words once upon a time there was a girl.” So, I went home, and I started to write. And I wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote. It was an amazing feeling – it was such a release.’ That fairy-story became the Cautionary Fairy-Tale for Adults which forms the basis of the book. Woven into the book is another tale – the journey Pat and Sophie took together via face- to -face sessions, emails, WhatsApp messages and phone conversations. Essential reading for all therapists, counsellors, health professionals, educators, and social workers, interested in understanding or working with survivors of child sexual abuse, and most importantly for those who are survivors of sexual abuse, The Flying Child – A Cautionary Fairy Tale for Adults- Finding a purposeful life after Child Sexual Abuse through compassionate and creative therapy – is a must- have for your bookshelf. Today, Sophie is a survivor activist, writer, founder and managing director of The Flying Child: a non-profit, organisation leading conversations about Child Sexual Abuse through survivor-led training, campaigning, and support. Pat Walsh is an experiential and intuitive counsellor with over forty years’ experience of working in trauma. Her background in nursing and occupational therapy taught her that to heal properly, wounds must be deeply cleansed, and purpose and meaning must be established to build any long -lasting recovery. Her ongoing studies in Eastern Philosophy and Medical Qigong have integrated these two approaches to healing, bringing a gentle and profoundly new approach to her therapeutic work with survivors of sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse. – ASIN: 191575805X | ISBN13: 9781915758057 | ISBN-13: 978-1915758057