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 decolonising healing and reclaiming body sovereignty, reaches back into indigenous roots and land-based healing. It centres 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.

Contributor: Aishah Shahidah Simmons (Foreword by), Shyma El Sayed (Illustrated by)

Illustrator: Shyma El Sayed

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