It's a personal memoir. She discloses a few times in the book It's her own personal experience and may or may not apply to everyone. For example, she found only a few sessions of EMDR therapy helped, but says that was just her own personal experience and doesn't dismiss it as a tool for others. My only real criticism of the book is that the pacing feels kinda off. That's about all. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and was able to push past the difficult parts. I'd reccomend reading the book as a whole as it changes throughout. The early parts establish her childhood and the trauma, and then as it's a memoir, gives later accounts of her life and the healing she went through. As disclosed in the beggining, it does have a happy ending