How to Save Your Inner Wonder Woman: A Guide to Help Caregivers and Allies of Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Using Wonder Woman

by Kenneth Rogers Jr

Overview

How to Save Your Inner Wonder Woman is a guide for partners, allies, and caregivers of childhood sexual abuse survivors. It uses the DC comic book superhero Wonder Woman to heal compassion fatigue.

Author, and male survivor of childhood sexual abuse, Kenneth Rogers, Jr. strives to help professional caregivers and the loved ones of survivors of childhood sexual abuse battle the effects of burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress.

With Wonder Woman as an extended metaphor, the reader is taken on the healing journey of the caregiver to learn the strategies needed to practice trauma stewardship in the midst of understanding and helping male and female survivors heal from their childhood sexual abuse.

Previous books in the series include:

- Heroes, Villains, and Healing: A Guide for Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Using D.C. Comic Superheroes and Villains

- How to Master Your Inner Superman: A Guide for Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Using Superman to Help Conquer the Need for Facades

- How to Kill Your Batman: A Guide for Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Using Batman to Heal Hypervigilance

Rogers says, "How to Slow Your Inner Flash is my next project that will help male and female survivors of childhood sexual abuse battle workaholism using The Flash."

About the Author: A native of Peoria, Illinois, award-winning author Kenneth Rogers, Jr. has been a secondary English teacher for ten years and currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland. "After writing my self-help book, Heroes, Villains, and Healing, I realized there was still more that could be written to help other male survivors. Each comic character (whether hero or villain) could be used to focus on a specific trauma to help other survivors."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781951530723
Publisher:	Strategic Book Publishing
Publication date:	11/13/2021
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.47(d)

Editorial Reviews

Reviewed by Mamta Madhavan for Readers' Favorite February 9, 2021:

... a handy manual written with the intention of helping professional caregivers and allies of survivors of childhood sexual abuse. This guide is not about Wonder Woman but uses it as a metaphor of boundless compassion to assist in understanding the challenges and difficulties of dealing with survivors of sexual abuse and helping them heal from it. The author, who is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, speaks about how his experience has given him a unique perspective to understand the effects of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) and childhood sexual abuse. The book is not limited to the messages and resources given to caregivers, first responders, partners, spouses, and loved ones of male survivors but also male and female survivors of sexual abuse. Rogers gives a lot of insights on the topic and also encourages caregivers to practice self-care as they can also suffer from depression, and get overwhelmed due to the nature of the job. [The book] is the best way to understand the healing process and the role of caregivers when it comes to helping the survivor recover along with keeping their mental health intact. It also helps in setting healthy boundaries so that the possibilities of secondary traumatic stress and compassion fatigue are much less. Reading this book is also a good way for many readers involved in caregiving to survivors of childhood sexual abuse to realize that they are not Wonder Woman, and they too are humans with needs, wants, desires, and lives of their own.

Distinguished Favorite in the category of Caregiving, 2021 NYC Big Book Awards

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