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Staci Haines · 2007
A comprehensive guide integrating somatic practices with trauma-informed sexuality education for survivors of child sexual abuse, offering practical exercises and guidance for healing and reclaiming sexual agency and pleasure.
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What this book knows
The body remembers sexual trauma — and through somatic awareness and embodied practice, survivors can reclaim pleasure, presence, and sexual selfhood.
trauma-and-survival
The last time I tried to say 'no' I was nine. He became so outraged that he beat me, breaking my rib. 'No' was no longer a possibility.
HSM-001I always felt like my body was his. It wasn't mine. It had betrayed me and now it was his ally and my enemy.
HSM-035embodiment
My vagina and pelvis felt like stone — dried, cracked earth nothing could grow in. The more I touched myself, the more that image changed.
HSM-003Life felt safer if I was in my head. I couldn't feel much sexually. Finally it became worth it to me to learn how to be here.
HSM-022Both of us are committed to having sex only when we are present. He is teaching me that the purpose of sex is not sensation. It's connection.
HSM-023shame
He said girls who like that are dirty whores, and he'd just treat me like one too.
HSM-00235 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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