Sexual Trauma Resources

Find supportive resources for healing from sexual trauma, including books, peer support groups, podcasts, and TED or TEDx Talks.

Books

Sexual Trauma Peer Support & Support Groups

• RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline
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  Provides confidential support from trained specialists for people affected by sexual assault or abuse. Survivors can also receive information about longer-term mental-health, medical, legal, and local sexual-assault services.
• Pandora’s Project — Pandora’s Aquarium
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  A long-running online peer-support community for survivors of rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse. It includes moderated forums, discussion spaces, and chat where survivors can connect with others who understand similar experiences.
• Pandora’s Project Community
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  Provides peer support for survivors through a moderated message board and chat community. Topics include childhood sexual abuse, adult sexual assault, triggers, relationships, shame, trauma symptoms, and recovery.
• 1in6 Online Support Groups for Men
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  Free counselor-facilitated text-based peer groups for adult men who have experienced sexual abuse or assault. Groups are small and anonymous and focus on education, connection, and mutual support.
• Wings Support Groups
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  Peer-centered groups facilitated by master’s-level counselors for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Discussions may include boundaries, communication, relationships, overwhelming emotions, and accepting support from other people.

Sexual Trauma Podcasts

• Healing Childhood Sexual Trauma
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  A podcast specifically about healing from childhood sexual trauma. Episodes discuss memories, triggers, relationships, anger, confronting an abuser, identity, and moving forward after trauma.

• 101 Ways to Heal: Practices to Heal Trauma & Thrive — Overcoming Child Sexual Abuse
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  A trauma specialist discusses a wide range of recovery tools and trauma treatments. It can help survivors understand that there is no single correct method of recovery and that different approaches may be useful at different stages.

TED & TEDx Talks About Sexual Trauma

• Healing From Sexual Abuse Can Start With One Word — Rena Romano
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  A survivor of childhood sexual abuse discusses disclosure and the enormous impact another person’s response can have after someone reveals abuse. It emphasizes believing survivors and making disclosure safer.
• Breaking the Barriers of Sexual Abuse — Jessica T. White
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  Explores the long-term psychological impact of sexual abuse and what recovery can involve. The speaker combines personal experience with her work supporting survivors.
• Surviving Trauma: Without Forgiveness, Can We Still Heal? — Tara Walker Lyons
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  Challenges the belief that survivors must forgive the person who abused them in order to recover. It is especially useful for people who have felt pressured to forgive before they are ready—or who do not want forgiveness to be part of their healing at all.
• Healing vs. Retaliation: Surviving Trauma and Sexual Abuse — Peter & Adenike Harris
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  A father and daughter discuss surviving sexual abuse and building support around the survivor. The talk emphasizes therapy, trusted allies, connection, and developing a foundation for recovery.
• Restoring Justice: Repairing the Harm After Sexual Assault — Gretchen Casey
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  Explores the aftermath of sexual assault and approaches to justice and healing that center the survivor’s experience rather than reducing it to statistics or legal outcomes alone.