ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about hope, how friends can help with the survivor's recovery journey from a nightmare faced alone, to a voyage of discovery shared with safe people. Friends play a vital role in recovery. Therapists are restricted by availability and professional boundaries. Friends are usually available and by keeping and maintaining healthy boundaries could be extremely valuable. The significance of supportive friends is of value beyond price. Friends are so grateful when they come to understand the amazing coping mechanism. Being a part of a friendship group or team dilutes the intensity of relationships, and completely alters the dynamics of the survivor's impact. Friends and carers who share the survivor's walk out of fragmentation, confusion, and fear into the breathtaking freedom of life as a single, whole individual, learn about working together, appreciating that where one is weak another can be strong.
