Healing sexual trauma workbook : somatic skills to help you feel safe in your body, create boundaries, and live with resilience / Erika Shershun.
By: Shershun, Erika [author.]
.Series: New Harbinger self-help workbook: Publisher: Oakland, CA : New Harbinger Publications, [2021]Description: 191 pages : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781684036509.Subject(s): Sexual abuse victims -- Rehabilitation | Sexual abuse victims -- Psychology | Psychic trauma -- TreatmentDDC classification: 616.85 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Class number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Book | Millbank Millbank Reading Room | Wellbeing Collection | WELLBEING 616.85 SHE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 019629 |
Learning to feel safe in your skin -- Understanding your body's responses, cultivating mindfulness and self-compassion -- Sensations are the language your body speaks -- Trauma memories and triggers -- Making sense of dissociation, flashbacks, and fear -- Boundaries are an ongoing process of choice -- Strengthening your resilience with emotional intelligence -- Grief for all you've lost and reclaiming your sexual power -- Your empowered self.
"The scars of sexual trauma exist not only in the mind, but also in the body. Drawing on the powerful mind-body techniques of somatic therapy, therapist Erika Shershun gives readers who've experienced sexual trauma a step-by-step guide to overcoming shame and stigma in the mind, bringing a newly felt sense of safety, awareness, and life to the body"-- Provided by publisher.