Description: New Book Encourages Abused Women To Not Give Up. Author tells her personal story of abuse to help others in the same situation.
Within the pages of Anna Potter’s new book, Cans In The Dryer (Why Can't I Just Leave?) , ($14.99, paperback, 9781498446044; $7.99, e-book, 9781498446051) readers will discover that no woman stays in an abusive relationship because she wants to. By reading the author’s true account of abuse, readers will understand why it is difficult for a woman to leave. Through her detailed journals, her insider’s view of life with an angry, controlling spouse is graphic, as is her expressions of longing for true love. H
“This book offers hope to women who feel they are trapped forever in an abusive relationship,” states the author. “It strives to portray that they are not bad because of a bad decision they made and that God loves them and does not condemn them if they leave and seek a better life.”
Anna Potter is a graduate of Lee University and Ashland Theological Seminary. She has done mission work in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Cans in the Dryer is her first book. Coming from a childhood of trauma and dysfunction, she spent over twenty years married to an abusive Christian man. She understands what victims are experiencing. She knows how earnestly she sought help and how institutions including the church, failed her. She struggled with the ramifications of bad advice. Potter hopes her honesty and tr