Body & Soul, Healed & Whole

An Invitational Guide to Healthy Sexuality After Trauma, Abuse, and Coercive Control

De: Tabitha K. Westbrook

Narrado por: Tabitha K. Westbrook

If you’re a survivor of sexual harm, recovering your sexuality is possible. You are worthy of good care. The toxic effects of sexual trauma and abuse can be devastating and lasting. Victims’ ability to experience healthy sexuality, even if they free themselves from the abuse, is often shattered. If sexual abuse, violence, or coercive control is part of your story, certified sex addiction therapist (CSAT) and trauma specialist Tabitha Westbrook wants you to know: you are not alone, and healing is possible.

In Body & Soul, Healed & Whole, Tabitha draws on her specialized expertise, her own personal story of abuse, and a deep knowledge of Scripture to create a safe and compassionate place for you to start recovering—or even finding—the healthy sexuality God intended for you.

With honest wisdom and empathetic understanding, Body & Soul, Healed & Whole will help you discover how to:

• Process your story of abuse—whether it occurred as a child, within marriage, or by someone in a position of power—without shame.
• Develop healthy relationships with God, with yourself, and with others (including those of the opposite sex).
• Reconnect with your good body and establish a foundation for healthy sexuality, whether currently married or single.
• Identify and address any spiritual abuse that may have taken place within sexually abusive relationships.
• Understand what arousal structures are, how they’re formed and distorted by abuse, and how to shift them when needed for healing.
• Incorporate practical skills for self-care during your healing process.

Sexuality does not have to be forever broken. Rest assured in a God who understands and loves you in the deepest of deep ways—and begin your journey toward wholeness, restoration, and healing.

©2025 Tabitha K. Westbrook (P)2025 Tyndale Refresh

Needed and well spoken (audio version)

This is such a tough topic and you carefully constructed each word with grace and strength. My heart was overwhelmed with more self-compassion as the chapters went on. Keep writing and showing others the power of what God's love can do in the dark places ❤️

Great book!

The author’s compassion and empathy for sexual abuse victims is authentic and healing. The practical every day advice about a mostly unspoken subject matter helps the healing process.

Kind and loving approach to a very difficult topic.

Tabitha is so gifted with words. I’m always having to rush to find a pen and paper to write down some amazing thing she just said! Her insights on embodied healing are incredibly helpful. I am so thankful for Tabitha’s wisdom, guidance, and grace-filled approach.