Body Rites: A Holistic Healing and Embodiment Workbook for Black Survivors of Sexual Trauma

By Shena J. Young

Book Overview

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 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324019832
• ISBN13: 9781324019831
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 10.0"