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Janet Bentley was raised in Southern California. She currently lives in Arizona where she founded the non-profits Courageous Survivors and Show Up For Children. Janet is a member of RAINN’s (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network) Speakers’ Bureau, a facilitator of Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children training, and a co-author of the international best-seller, We Choose To Thrive. She also started and facilitates a support group for survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. Janet loves living in the beauty of the desert.

Don’t Expect Me To Cry is a powerful story of the horrors Janet experienced at the hands of multipleabusers, including her father, and the courageous journey of healing that brought her to a life that isinspirational to other survivors. Janet’s resilience is evident as she tells her story in three parts, reflecting her thoughts and experiencesat critical stages of her life. Don’t Expect Me To Cry - Starting with a child’s view of shocking abuse, Janet shares how she had tobuild defenses to survive the impact of the horrors of her childhood. Don’t Expect Me To Lie – Continuing with her journey through early therapy, Janet describes the painand fear she experienced as she started to share the ‘secret’. Don’t Expect Me To Die - The final part tells how Janet hit ‘rock bottom’ and tried to end her life. Sheexplains how, from that place of despair, she learned that it is possible to heal from the dark shame andtrauma and live a steadier and more content life. “Believing myself to be a reasonably healed survivor of childhood sexual abuse, I didn’t expect to findmyself becoming teary-eyed as I read Don’t Expect Me to Cry by Janet Bentley. But her story moved meand touched me more deeply than the many other books I have read by those who have bravely told oreven written their own books, myself included”. – V. Boland“I really liked Don't Expect Me To Cry and the sincere and genuine way in which it is written. The entirebook is raw and real, and although I am sure it was difficult to write about for Janet, she is aware that itis precisely for that reason that it is important to share her story along with all of the details of sexualabuse, and the emotional damage that results from it. Her writing style, which is engaging and fastpacedyet detailed……This is a must-read autobiography”. - G. Dixon

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