title: Facing The Unthinkable:: Surviving Your Child's Sexual Abuse
author: Suzanne L. Noel
description: Suzanne is a Certified Focusing Trainer and a Certifying Focusing Coordinator with The International Focusing Institute in New York. She has an undergraduate degree in Sociology/Anthropology with Highest Honors and is an Returned Peace Corps Volunteer. Based on her Recovery Focusing work, Suzanne has developed the H.O.W. We Heal Model for Facilitating Support Groups and Project Groups (See her book Enlivened Community). Several of Suzannes articles have been published in The Folio Journal of The Focusing Institute, and The Focusing Connection Newsletter. Suzanne facilitated Recovery Focusing groups at Costa Rica Recovery Center for six years, from 2008 to 2014, and has taught H.O.W. to Facilitate Recovery Focusing Groups through webinars for nine years to psychologists, addiction counselors, and twelve steppers. She taught at the Advanced and Certification Focusing Weeklong for four years, 2012-2015. Suzanne is a 12-Stepper, poet, and budding artist. You can see her artwork by visiting www.suzannelnoel.com. She loves riding her motorcycle on the beautiful mountains of Costa Rica and walking in wild places.
zlib_text: **The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon**
  
  **Stephen King**
  
  * * *
  
  ****Pregame**
  
  THE WORLD had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha
  McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. At ten o'clock on a
  morning in early June she was sitting in the back seat of her mother's Dodge
  Caravan, wearing her blue Red Sox batting practice jersey (the one with 36
  GORDON on the back) and playing with Mona, her doll. At ten thirty she was
  lost in the woods. By eleven she was trying not to be terrified, trying not to
  let herself think, This is serious, this is very serious. Trying not to think
  that sometimes when people got lost in the woods they got seriously hurt.
  Sometimes they died.
  
  All because I needed to pee, she thought except she hadn't needed to pee all
  that badly, and in any case she could have asked Mom and Pete to wait up the
  trail a minute while she went behind a tree. They were fighting again, gosh
  what a surprise that was, and that was why she had dropped beh