Body Rites, Shena J. Young, PsyD
Body Rites, Shena J. Young, PsyD
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Body Rites
A Holistic Healing and Embodiment Workbook for Black Survivors of Sexual Trauma

Author: Shena J. Young, PsyD, Aishah Shahidah Simmons

Narrator: Machelle Williams

Unabridged: 5 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/14/2023


Synopsis

A written companion and workbook for listeners 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.

About Shena J. Young, PsyD

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tasha on May 23, 2024

Without a doubt, this is the best sexual trauma workbook for Black women, and women of color. The opening letter to us, the meditations, journal prompts, affirmations, recipes for healing, guidance on breathing, there is so much here. I'll be recommending this one to clients and loved ones.......more

Goodreads review by Niki on August 12, 2024

I just got my copy of Dr shena j young's 'body rites: a holistic healing and embodiment workbook for Black survivors of sexual trauma", and I am so excited! This was my FAVORITE birthday gift. I turned 64 last Thursday. I ordered this book on my birthday. Let me explain WHY this is so significant. T......more

Goodreads review by Tara on January 05, 2024

Body Rites is a workbook to help one heal from past sexual trauma. It’s not meant to be read continuously from beginning to end. If you are able to do that, I will applaud you. It will bring back hard feelings and great sadness, but it teaches a person how to heal. This book will give you the tools......more