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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Marie Arendt
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Psychology

BODY RITES

Shena J. Young

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 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. 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. Dr. shena's work has been featured in Bustle, Huffington Post, Lily by The Washington Post, Therapy for Black Girls, and she has consulted for The Body: A Home for Love, Black Girl in OM, Loveland Foundation, and Me Too movement communities.

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Book Published 2023-10-24 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. - New York (USA)

Comments

As I read just the first few pages of this masterpiece, I felt a swirling in my stomach - the kind that brings you a genuine sense of excitement and awe as you know you are about to curl up with something that is going to change both your life and the world... In this mind, body, and spirit journey of ritual, affirmation, remembrance, journaling, embodiment, breathwork, and nervous system care, she reminds readers that they are inherently whole. A beloved spirit guide and a truly one-of-a-kind resource, may Black survivors of sexual trauma all over the world be held, seen, and cherished with this medicine. Profoundly healing and infused with the utmost love, care, intention from tender and deep lived experience, you will not be the same person after this journey unfolds.

body rites is an incredibly grounding, sensitive, and informative guide to helping those who've experienced sexual assault feel reconnected to their bodies. dr young does a masterful job of fostering a sense of safety and warmth as she walks beside readers on the journey of healing. The book breaks down scientific and psychological terms in accessible and relevant ways, and is a radical and needed departure from other texts in this space. Many will be able to see themselves and be helped by her offering.