{"product_id":"overcoming-smut","title":"Overcoming Smut","description":"OVERCOMING SMUTFifty-two years ago, I was dealing with my life's challenges and circumstances in a vacuum. I was hiding from the world and myself, daily, every day. I just didn't know it. One day as I was walking through my small apartment in a small town in California, the \"Oprah Winfrey Show\" was on the television. She was speaking about the sexual abuse she had experienced at an early age. I was spellbound! Was it possible that someone as famous as she was had a background with a similar \"secret as me?\" That day I realized for the first time that I was not the only one who had been suffering in silence. This hidden, dirty, shameful, unspoken subject had only been spoken by me twice in my life. Both times that I spoke of the \"secret\" were to my young friends, and some trauma had just occurred. I was suffering, but not sure that anyone could tell. Not that I hid it well. People including family members just don't want to see this kind of abuse as they will have to deal with it. My mother simply ignored it. I finally accepted that fact when I was in my forties. Following Oprah via her television show over the years has brought so many victims to their own awareness concerning this issue. Thankfully, I was one of those who was helped by her reaching out to other victims of abuse during her television shows. --Sue Brazeal","brand":"Sue Brazeal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51091586187552,"sku":"BS-X00-214214","price":17.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9780578214214-HD.jpg?v=1767379790","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/overcoming-smut","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}