Here is one mans story, told honestly and bravely of healing after sexually abused as a child by a trusted family friend. The memory triggered in 2006 by a newspaper article with his abusers name and the name of other boys who were abused by him.MoreHere is one mans story, told honestly and bravely of healing after sexually abused as a child by a trusted family friend. The memory triggered in 2006 by a newspaper article with his abusers name and the name of other boys who were abused by him. Through trying to understand and reconcile the trauma he experienced, Michael Hoffman focuses on what he calls his twelve acts of recovery.