Book details

  • Genre:self-help
  • Sub-genre:Abuse
  • Language:English
  • Pages:188
  • Hardcover ISBN:9798997363307

It Gets Better

A Survivor's Guide to Healing From Domestic Violence

By Kristina Flournoy

Overview

It Gets Better is a compassionate guide for survivors navigating healing from beyond domestic violence. With empathy and encouragement, Kristina Flournoy explores safety, support systems, healthy boundaries, parenting, rebuilding, relationships, and rediscovering the parts of yourself that may have been diminished by abuse. This book reminds survivors that healing does not follow a perfect timeline and that a meaningful, fulfilling life remains possible.
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Description

It Gets Better offers compassionate guidance for survivors learning how to feel safe, rebuild their confidence, and create a life beyond domestic violence. Keeping the reader at the center, Kristina Flournoy addresses the importance of developing a support system, establishing healthy boundaries, navigating parenting, rebuilding independence, understanding the legal process, approaching future relationships with discernment, and reconnecting with the woman you are becoming. This book acknowledges that healing is deeply personal and rarely linear. Each chapter offers reassurance for the difficult moments while encouraging readers to recognize their progress, protect their peace, and remain open to joy. It Gets Better is a reminder that survival is not the conclusion of her story. Safety, confidence, connection, purpose, and fulfillment can become part of what comes next.
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About The Author

Kristina Flournoy is an author, advocate, speaker, and Ms. USA Nation 2026, dedicated to empowering women to heal, reclaim their strength, and create beautiful lives after difficult seasons. Kristina believes that our experiences can become invitations to grow, heal, and discover strengths we never knew we possessed. Through her advocacy, she encourages women to embrace their femininity, honor their journey, and trust that after life's most difficult seasons, peace, joy, and beautiful new beginnings remain ahead. In It Gets Better: A Survivor's Guide to Healing from Domestic Violence, Kristina offers compassionate guidance, intentional encouragement and practical insight for those navigating their own healing journeys. Through these pages, she invites readers to rediscover themselves, protect their peace, and believe that some of life's most meaningful chapters are yet to unfold. Kristina and her daughter live in Hawaiʻi, and she continues to inspire others through her advocacy, speaking engagements, and unwavering belief in the power of prayer, resilience, and healing. Her greatest imprint to every reader that opens this book is believing that the future is beautiful. Even after life's most difficult seasons, peace, joy, and wonderful new beginnings are ahead.
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