A Survivor’s Surrender
Healing One Layer at a Time

Memoir and Guidebook

This book is not about Jackson. Instead it’s a book about his life experiences as a child and as an adult. Jackson offers his readers hope, encouragement and wisdom throughout his book.

Some of the childhood experiences remembered were horrific for him to recall and work through. It’s Jackson’s determination to become his best that helped him heal his emotional onion. As he will tell you, there’s always room for self-improvement. It’s a life long journey!

The new guidebook is a companion to his memoir and provides unique tips and wisdom from a commonsense approach.

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About the Book

We can overcome our childhood! Despite the severe childhood abuse he endured, Jackson Hanks is considered an accomplished man, a successful attorney and a highly respected civic leader.

In A Survivor’s Surrender Jackson shares lessons he learned from his highly traumatic childhood and life experiences, in the hope that you may gain inspiration for your own healing journey.

Jackson’s message to you is that vulnerability isn’t a weakness – it is a trait of courage and authenticity.

Let Jackson’s remarkable life journey, his pearls of wisdom and his joy for life provide you with hope and encouragement for your own healing journey, wherever that takes you.

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About the Guidebook

This guidebook is a companion to my memoir, A Survivor’s Surrender – Healing One Layer at a Time. After its release, I received many comments from readers who gained hope, help and healing. One suggested that I create this workbook to help people move more easily through the steps of self-healing.

We’ve all overcome some traumatic events in our lives. It seems to be a universal lesson for humans on planet earth. My experiences in childhood included sexual, ritual, emotional, physical and mental abuse. Painful as they were at the time, they helped me to become who I am today.

This guidebook can help you take an honest look at yourself and make steps toward self-improvement, one chapter at a time. Several of the chapters require a deep dive into your past, while most provide unique tips and wisdom from a commonsense approach.

Unless we put the effort into becoming better versions of ourselves, we are destined to face the same life issues and difficulties – over and over again. Choosing to become the best person you can be is an admirable goal – one which I admire you for having! The journey of self-improvement is the best trip we can take as self-work often brings positive and life-changing results. It certainly has for me.

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Buy the Memoir and the Guidebook

In A Survivor’s Surrender Jackson shares lessons he learned from his highly traumatic childhood and life experiences, in the hope that you may gain inspiration for your own healing journey.

Buy Book & Guidebook $24.95

Testimonials

“Jackson Hanks is the most courageous man I have ever worked with. He has explored a childhood of horrific abuse and offers hope and healing to others.”

-- Sara Hays, LCSW TX

“I had a major (huge!) breakthrough during one section of the book. Not to mention the little epiphanies throughout which are as important! this book was very relatable for me and therefore, will no doubt help others. I could go on!”

-- Janet Franecki, proofreader

“Jackson’s book is transparent and deeply moving. It is filled with encouragement, motivation, and sprinkled with humor. I’d say a must read for anyone who has been abused or traumatized.

As a mental health professional, working with victims of sexual, physical and emotional trauma, I found the book to show amazing strength through a journey many people would never share for fear of disbelief, rejection or sheer avoidance of buried memories.

This book is written from the heart and one you will want to re-read many times.”

Charlene McCauleyMayfield M.A., LPC

“Jackson, congratulations on the release of your book! Few people will truly realize the journey this has been for you.

I am always amazed at the strength and tenacity you bring into the work you do, but especially working through the process of writing your book. You have been courageous in finding your ‘truth,’ and even more so in sharing it with others.

There will be many people that find a piece of themselves between the pages of your painful experiences. Additionally, there will be many that will see that there is a path to finding their way into a better place in their own life.

I have a great deal of respect for the work you have done.”

Judy Goodman

“This is a very powerful – and a bit frightening – account of the effect that child abuse can have on the entire life of a person, even deep into adulthood. Jackson has done a sterling job of recording his deep inquiry of recovery from a totally traumatic childhood of physical, verbal, emotional, ritual, sexual, and psychological abuse.

Recovery has been a long, hard road for him – and he shares his journey with honesty, and compassion for others, like him, who are also on the path.

While his story is sometimes horrific, he concludes with bright rays of light that can help others, and I commend him for not yielding to the darkness he describes.”

Bill Worth - Editor, and author of the novels:House of the Sun: A Metaphysical Novel of Maui
The Hidden Life of Jesus Christ: A Memoir
Outwitting Multiple Sclerosis: How Forgiveness Helped Me Heal My Brain by Changing My Mind.

“Jackson has written a wonderful self-learning guidebook for those who are ready to begin the healing journey of recovery from childhood sexual abuse. The exercises may bring up painful memories from the past but ultimately you’ll come to a place of hopefulness, forgiveness and healing as you work your way through to completion of Jackson’s guidebook. A Survivor’s Surrender Self-Learning Guidebook is packed full of wisdom from a survivors journey from brokenness to wholeness, and even opportunity. Truly a must read!”

Charlene McCauley-Mayfield M.A., LPC

“Working through this book could help you become a thriver instead of just being a survivor.”

Co-Author Sara Hays, LCSW Texas