What was that book I borrowed and read so many years ago...

For some reason, it came back to me as I was chopping vegetables yesterday. It is called Reach For The Rainbow by Lynne Finney.

"Reach for the Rainbow: Advanced Healing for Survivors"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/910096.Reach_for_the_Rainbow

Yes, that is the correct one, with the cover I remember.

"When Lynne Finney was going through therapy, she wanted to help herself heal. But she couldn't find any self-help books for incest victims. 

 So she wrote one.

Finney, who lives in Park City, has a book coming out in February called 'Reach for the Rainbow' about sexual abuse and the disassociative disorders it can cause.

'One-third of the book is a section on self-help,' she says. 'I talk about affirmations, self-hypnosis, controlling your emotions, how to nurture yourself.'

Finney went back to school recently to get her master's degree in social work so she could counsel incest victims. She wants to tell them they didn't deserve to be abused. 

From the time we are tiny, she says, we are taught that God loves good little children. Abused children translate that to mean that, since they are having horrible experiences, they must be bad. 

'A lot of abused children grow up believing that God doesn't love them,' she says. 'I hope I help them reach a different conclusion.'"

 ~ Susan Lyman-Whitney

"INCEST VICTIM WROTE HER OWN SELF-HELP BOOK" - Deseret News

https://www.deseret.com/1990/1/14/18841535/incest-victim-wrote-her-own-self-help-book