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What Every Survivor Should Know: Understanding Trauma, Rights, and Recovery After Child Sexual Abuse

What Every Survivor Should Know is an empowering guide for adults who experienced child sexual abuse, helping them understand trauma, recognise their rights, navigate recovery safely, access support, and advocate for themselves with confidence.

Created/hosted by: BeyondTrauma Academy CIC

Breaking Free Workbook: Practical help for survivors of child sexual abuse

A practical workbook offering structured exercises, coping strategies and gentle guidance to help adult survivors of child sexual abuse understand the impact of their experiences, stay safe, and take steps toward healing and a more hopeful future.

Created on: 06 Jun 2020
Created/hosted by: Kay Toon and Carolyn Ainscough

Poems

A collection of poems written by survivors of intrafamilial child sexual abuse as an emotional release and/or to provide inspiration to others.

Created/hosted by: Cis'ters

Artwork

Ideas about how art can be used to inspire survivors to express emotions in many different ways.

Created/hosted by: Cis'ters

Take Cover

Peer to peer support groups, blogs and online support for survivirs of child sexual abuse.

Created/hosted by: Pauline Sharp

The Body Keeps The Score

A book which explains how and why trauma "wires" us to function in particular ways psychologically and, via altered body chemistry, affects our whole body. There is also an audio book available.

Created/hosted by: Bessel van der Kolk

Conversations with Carolyn Spring

A series of podcasts talking about trauma, dissociation and recovery.

Created on: 19 Mar 2026
Created/hosted by: Carolyn Spring

Understanding dissociation

Survivors reflections and information about the spectrum of dissociation that can affect people after sexual violence and abuse, written by survivors, for survivors and allies.

Created on: 03 Jan 2025
Created/hosted by: Survivors Voices

Spiritual Abuse Recovery Blog

A blog which aims to provide information, advice and support to people who have been abused in a spiritual context.

Created/hosted by: Action on Spiritual Abuse

Carolyn Spring's articles and blogs

Carolyn Spring’s blog is a collection of articles on trauma, recovery, dissociative identity disorder, child abuse, suicide and self‑harm, offering guidance and insight for survivors and those who support them.

Created on: 09 Mar 2026
Created/hosted by: Carolyn Spring
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