A panel from the WSIG recently participated in a USNA Alumna Sexual Assualt survivors’ virtual event for Midshipman focused on the process of healing and recovery. The panel was sponsored by the USNA SAPR Office and the WSIG. A panel open to all USNA Alumnae is forthcoming – stay tuned here.
If you are or know of a sexual assault survivor, below is a list of resources recommended by the panel members to help in the healing and recovery process.
Reading List
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk MD
- When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress by Gabor Maté (good companion to the Body Keeps the score)
- Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving A GUIDE AND MAP FOR RECOVERING FROM CHILDHOOD TRAUMA
- Finding True Happiness: Satisfying Our Restless Hearts: Vol 1 by Fr. Robert J. Spitzer (Happiness, Suffering, and Transcendence)
- Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage Grief by David Kessler
- The Gift by Edith Eger (how to not let pain define your future)
- How to do the Work by Nicole LaPera
- Home Body: Rupi Kaur – I think this book can speak to a lot of survivors
- Know My Name by Chanel Miller
- Daring Greatly by Brene` Brown (how the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead)
- Rising Strong by Brene` Brown (how the ability to reset transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead)
- Will I ever be good enough? by Karyl McBride – highly recommend for anyone that has or may have a narcissistic mother
- The Feeling Good Handbook by David D. Burns
- ACT on Life Not on Anger by Georg H. Eifert (ACT therapy works for some)
- Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and how it Can Help You Find–and Keep–love by Amir Levine (useful when looking at boundaries)
- A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle (mindfulness)
- The Mountain is You by Brianna Wiest
Watch List
- Brene` Brown: The Call to Courage on Netflix Official Site
- Brene` Brown: The Power of Vulnerability Ted Talk; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o
- Irene Llyon – YouTube psychologist that has a lot of great YouTube videos on processing trauma; https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBkXgr0E9ZWUg4iSDEUKqVA