Still Here: A Survivor’s Guide to Healing, Safety, and Life Beyond Trauma

By Aditya Kumar Deepankar

Still Here - A Survivor's Guide to Healing, Safety, and Life Beyond Trauma

You survived.
This book honors that-and everything that comes after.

Still Here is a survivor-centered guide written with profound care for those who have lived through trauma and are learning how to live beyond it. It is not a book that demands strength, courage, forgiveness, or closure. It does not rush healing or turn pain into lessons.

Instead, it offers something rarer: safety, respect, and companionship.

This book understands that trauma changes how the body feels, how the mind thinks, how relationships work, and how the future is imagined. It understands that silence can be survival, that healing is nonlinear, and that being "still here" is already an achievement.

Written in a gentle, affirming voice, Still Here walks beside survivors rather than instructing them. You will not find pressure to relive what happened, disclose your story, or move on before you are ready. Every page is grounded in one core truth:

You are not broken.
Your responses make sense.
Your life is more than what happened to you.

Inside this book, you will find:

Clear, compassionate explanations of trauma responses (freeze, dissociation, silence, fear)

Guidance on rebuilding safety, rest, and self-trust

Support for navigating relationships, boundaries, love, and identity after trauma

Language that removes shame and restores dignity

A survivor-centered approach that honors choice at every step

Gentle reflections that help survival become living

This book is inclusive of survivors of all genders, ages, and backgrounds. It does not define you by trauma-it recognizes you as a whole human being whose life continues to unfold.

You may read this book slowly.
You may skip pages.
You may return to it years from now.
You may simply keep it nearby as reassurance.

There is no "right way" to heal-and this book respects that.

Still Here is not about fixing you.
It is about standing with you.

Because survival is not small.
Because healing does not have a deadline.
Because life beyond trauma is possible-quietly, gently, at your pace.

You are still here.
And that is enough.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GHPGR32T
• ISBN13: 9798244588545
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 614 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.5" x 6.0"