Where Wounds Live is a ground breaking collection of articles that takes you deep into the landscape of trauma — not to dwell there, but to find the way through.

Drawing on her background as a nurse, midwife, and trauma practitioner, Dr. Sam Mishra (hc) brings both clinical precision and hard-won personal experience to some of the most pressing and rarely spoken-about challenges of our time.

From the long shadow of narcissistic abuse and the silenced reality of male sexual assault, to addiction, body image, grief, generational trauma, and the quiet revolution of somatic healing — this book leaves no wound unexamined.

Spanning 67 articles across ten powerful themes, Where Wounds Live refuses to simplify what is complex or sanitise what is painful. Instead, it offers something rarer: honest, compassionate, and deeply human understanding. Whether you are navigating your own recovery, supporting someone who is, or working on the frontline of trauma care, these pages will challenge what you think you know — and illuminate what you may never have considered.

This is not just a book about surviving trauma. It is a guide to understanding where it lives inside us, and what it takes to truly come home to ourselves.

What if the very things that broke you were always meant to make you?

Beautifully Broken is a raw, compassionate, and deeply practical guide to becoming who you were always meant to be — not despite your wounds, but through them.

Drawing on three decades of clinical practice as a trauma practitioner, nurse, midwife, and transformational coach, Dr Sam Mishra (h.c.) weaves together the neuroscience of trauma, depth psychology, somatic wisdom, and her own unflinching personal story to offer a roadmap for genuine, lasting change.

This is not a book about quick fixes or toxic positivity. It is an honest reckoning with the unconscious patterns, personality archetypes, and relational wounds that quietly shape our lives — and a step-by-step journey through the inner landscape most of us spend a lifetime avoiding. From shadow work and inner child healing, to trauma bonding, the Drama Triangle, and the Hero's Journey, each chapter moves you closer to the most authentic and empowered version of yourself.

Organised around the same transformational framework that has changed hundreds of lives in Dr Mishra's acclaimed workshops, Beautifully Broken meets you exactly where you are — and walks with you toward who you are capable of becoming.

Because you were never broken beyond repair. You were always becoming.

The sequel to Where Wounds Live.

From the Wreckage moves between two vantage points: the person inside addiction, and the person standing beside them, trying to hold on. Drawing on her clinical background in trauma and addiction work and her own history of self-harm, disordered eating and complex PTSD, Mishra dismantles the idea that addiction is a moral failing. In its place, she offers something more precise and more human — addiction as adaptation, shame as its hidden engine, and recovery as a non-linear, often circular process of rebuilding a self once the coping mechanism is gone.

This is not a clean redemption story. It traces the unpredictable house of a childhood shaped by another's addiction, the dissociation that once felt like safety, the exhausting work of compliance and people-pleasing, the specific grief of loving someone who leaves the moment they arrive at stability, and the question underneath all of it: who are you, when the thing you used to survive is no longer available to you?

Part memoir, part clinical field guide, From the Wreckage is for anyone who has stood in the ashes of addiction — their own, or someone else's — and wondered whether there was a way back to themselves. There is. It rarely looks like a straight line. This book maps it anyway.