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 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.
