Reading Recommendations
“When I was a child and I was dealing with sexual assault, reading showed me language for what I had been through, and that I wasn’t alone, and that perhaps I would get to the other side of it.”
— Roxane Gay
Disgust Workbook: Healing from the Inside Out
A Trauma-informed guide to Shame, Survival and Self-Compassion
by Rachael Britton PsyD, LP
Britton explores the often overlooked role of disgust in trauma recovery. It reframes disgust as an internalized emotion that can shape self‑identity, fuel shame, and hinder healing. Through trauma‑informed education, body‑based practices, and reflective exercises, the workbook guides readers in recognizing and working through these feelings. Prompts and real‑life examples support increased self‑awareness and a clearer understanding of the healing process. explores the often overlooked role of disgust in trauma recovery. It reframes disgust as an internalized emotion that can shape self‑identity, fuel shame, and hinder healing. Through trauma‑informed education, body‑based practices, and reflective exercises, the workbook guides readers in recognizing and working through these feelings. Prompts and real‑life examples support increased self‑awareness and a clearer understanding of the healing process.
EXIT WOUNDS
A STORY OF LOVE, LOSS, AND OCCASIONAL WARS
by Peter Godwin
Peter Godwin’s mother is dying. Born in England and having spent most of her life as a doctor in Zimbabwe, she now lies in a hospital bed in the partitioned living room of his sister’s London home. As Godwin moves through her final months, he is also confronting the long‑standing effects of living with PTSD—shaped by years of war reporting, displacement, and bearing witness to horriffic violence. Middle age brings its own reckoning: the grief of losing a parent, the weight of family history, and the unsettling clarity that comes with looking back at the places and people that formed him. His longing for his Zimbabwean childhood sits alongside the realities of life in New York with his English wife and transatlantic children. Godwin guides readers through the intersections of trauma, memory, and loss, revealing how we learn to live with our scars, make peace with who we’ve become, and find meaning in the fragile connections that sustain us.