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Girl, Groomed
- Author
- Carol Odell, LICSW
- Narrator
- Carol Odell, LICSW
- Publisher
- She Writes Press
- Publish Date
- 30 December 2025
- Run Time
- 6 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Memoirs
What to expect
Fans of Lori Gottlieb’s Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and horse lovers alike will appreciate this therapist’s intimate journey in “the other chair” as she strives to untangle the trauma from her equestrian childhood that now threatens her marriage.
Raw and riveting, Girl, Groomed is seasoned psychotherapist Carol Odell’s evolving story of deepening her understanding of how the crisis she blindly imposes on her marriage is rooted in her own history of sexual abuse and violence at the hands of a predatory horse trainer who, for far too much of her young life, held all the reins. Chapters toggle back and forth between scenes of her childhood growing up jumping horses on the show circuit in Virginia and the therapy sessions she later undergoes as an adult sitting in “the other chair.”
Using her own journey, Carol demonstrates in this insightful memoir how unintegrated trauma limits us and our connection with others—and how the work of uncovering and reintegrating “what we do with what happens to us” can become the very source of our liberation.
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Details
- Author
- Carol Odell, LICSW
- Narrator
- Carol Odell, LICSW
- Duration
- 6 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 December 2025
- ISBN
- 9798228749344
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- She Writes Press
- Genre
- Memoirs
Synopsis
Fans of Lori Gottlieb’s Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and horse lovers alike will appreciate this therapist’s intimate journey in “the other chair” as she strives to untangle the trauma from her equestrian childhood that now threatens her marriage.Raw and riveting, Girl, Groomed is seasoned psychotherapist Carol Odell’s evolving story of deepening her understanding of how the crisis she blindly imposes on her marriage is rooted in her own history of sexual abuse and violence at the hands of a predatory horse trainer who, for far too much of her young life, held all the reins. Chapters toggle back and forth between scenes of her childhood growing up jumping horses on the show circuit in Virginia and the therapy sessions she later undergoes as an adult sitting in “the other chair.”Using her own journey, Carol demonstrates in this insightful memoir how unintegrated trauma limits us and our connection with others—and how the work of uncovering and reintegrating “what we do with what happens to us” can become the very source of our liberation.
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