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

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 centers 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 nonbinary 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:psychophysiologylived body wisdomtrauma-informed embodiment practiceskinship and ancestral connectionsAfrican spiritual practicesMost urgently, this book is a series of intimate conversations with your “self”; and remembrance that healing lives at the core of your intuition. 40 figures, 17 full-color icon illustrations Read more