Her Words, My Voice Heidi Ramer
Her Words, My Voice Heidi Ramer Heidi Ramer's mother, Karen, was raped for the first time in 1979. After harboring her secret for years, she eventually sought help through counseling and her faith.…
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Her Words, My Voice Heidi Ramer
Heidi Ramer's mother, Karen, was raped for the first time in 1979. After harboring her secret for years, she eventually sought help through counseling and her faith. She was sexually assaulted at least twelve more times by the same man over the next three years and emotionally tormented by him for the next twenty.
In that bag, Karen left a story that needed to be told.In a candid presentation that intertwines entries from Karen's journals with Heidi's personal reflections, readers are led down the uniquely painful path of sexual abuse and its wider impacts. After Karen's untimely death in 2001, Heidi's father handed her a canvas bag full of handwritten journals. Emerging from an era when women were groomed to seek praise and approval from men, Karen chronicles her experiences from realization through forgiveness, openly expressing how the trauma affected her life, health, and