Hurt, Healing, and Hope: Thriving beyond Sexual Assault - Hardcoverby Melissa B. Lombardo (Author) The inter woven monologues in this book and performance piece provide you with an intimate view into the journey of healing and thriving post sexual assault. Melissa takes you with her to the early 2000s as a twenty something undergraduate student and sexual assault survivor during which she was propelled into an immense amount of hurt, and much later, healing and hope. During that time, she began journaling to help