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Guides for understanding what happened and healing

Self-help guide for women and girls: For women and girls who are victim-survivors of rape or sexual abuse and want to understand and process their own personal reactions to their experience. It is for all women, including trans women.

Hear me. Believe me. Respect me: A survey of adult survivors of child sexual abuse and their experiences of support services.

University of Suffolk

Self-help guide for victim-survivors: Our self-help guide can help with understanding and processing your thoughts, feelings and emotions around rape and sexual abuse.

Self-help guide for men and boys: For men and boys who are victim-survivors of rape, sexual assault or sexual abuse and want to understand and process their own personal reactions to their experience. It is for all men, including trans men.

My little book of coping methods

Roisin Ross & The Peach Diaries

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): Explains what it is, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.

Managing flashbacks

The courage to be me

Dr Nina Burrows

Understanding dissociative disorders

Mind & Cathryn Livingston of First Person Plural

Self-help resource guide: To support those accessing the London Survivors Gateway Service.

London Survivors Gateway & Women's and Girls Network

Rape and assault by penetration: Information for survivors of sexual violence

Rights of Women

My Rights, My Self, My Choice, My Hopes: A guide for young women who have experienced sexual violence

London Survivors Gateway & Nia

Self-help guide: This self help guide is for survivors of childhood sexual abuse who want to understand and process their own personal reactions to their experience.