Merita Atherly Engen is from a family of SRA, although she herself was not a victim of the SRA. She has released her first book about her story, documenting how the silence enforced on them all seriously affected her life. "Heartache of Promise" is a well-written book that shows the pain and abuse Merita suffered and how the fallout of the toxic family system affected her life and the choices she made along the way. Her next book will document her sister, who suffered SRA. She calls this "a soft approach to a hard topic." The code of silence enforced in her family is quite fascinating in how she explains it in this book. Through it, she talks about the issues and shame that silence generates. SRA produces secondhand trauma, which we don't often talk about. Merita documents this very well in "Heartache of Promise." I found this a very interesting read and cannot wait for her next book.

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