body rites: a holistic healing and embodiment workbook for Black survivors of sexual trauma - Softcover

Young, Shena J

 
9781324019831: body rites: a holistic healing and embodiment workbook for Black survivors of sexual trauma
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1324019832 ISBN 13: 9781324019831
Publisher: WW Norton & Co, 2023

Synopsis

A written companion and workbook for readers seeking to reclaim their bodies as home in healing from sexual trauma

Body rites as a holistic healing journey, anchored in the practice of decolonizing healing and reclaiming body sovereignty, reaches back into indigenous roots and land-based healing. It centres remembering as a means of survival.

This workbook is the first of its kind: a resource of rituals divided into four healing journeys for Black women, femmes and non binary survivors of sexual assault. The experiential workbook moves beyond prescriptive self-help models by providing a gentle guide and liaison to explore the impact of sexual trauma on the mind, body, heart and spirit. It is an invitation to heal holistically, drawing upon psychophysiology, lived body wisdom, trauma-informed embodiment practices, kinship and ancestral connections and African spiritual practices. Most urgently, this book is a series of intimate conversations with your “self”; and remembrance that healing lives at the core of your intuition.

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About the Author

shena j, young, PsyD, is a licensed body centered psychologist-healer, artist, and Iyalorisa. She owns a private practice, embodied truth healing & psychological services, rooted in Los Angeles, California, where she offers mind-body-heart-spirit care in healing from sexual, racial, intergenerational, and ancestral traumas.

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Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1324019832
ISBN 13 
9781324019831
Binding
Paperback
Illustrator
Sayed Shyma El
Number of pages
208