The Power of Self-Healing
  • Published: 7 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9781761349843
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $36.99

The Power of Self-Healing

Take action over your trauma

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Therapy alone cannot heal childhood trauma and create the balance and abundance you seek. To truly change and thrive, you need to learn how to self-heal.

Childhood trauma and its toxic beliefs trap us in destructive patterns of anxiety, shame, perfectionism and avoidance, robbing us of our agency.

We’re in the middle of a revolution in understanding the effects of childhood trauma. The Power of Self-Healing by trusted trauma expert Dr Sarah Woodhouse is the wake-up call you need to liberate yourself from damaging thoughts and behaviours – starting today.

Including insights from some of the world’s leading voices on trauma, this transformative book provides practical tools and insights to help you re-wire, re-learn and break free.

By the end of this book, you’ll know you have agency, choices, and the ability to create profound changes in yourself and your life – and that you can heal your trauma.
  • Published: 7 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9781761349843
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $36.99
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About the author

Sarah Woodhouse

Dr Sarah Woodhouse is a trauma specialist and coaching psychologist who grew up and trained in the UK. Her research explores how different ways of thinking, feeling and being can affect trauma symptoms. In her work, Sarah uses her knowledge and her personal experience to help people break free from their past and reclaim their lives.

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Praise for The Power of Self-Healing

Empowering and important – this fascinating book will forever change how you approach trauma healing.

Julia Samuel, psychotherapist and author of GRIEF WORKS

This book is hopeful, human and deeply helpful. Sarah helps you understand why you feel the way you do, and how to start changing your patterns, without shame.

Anna Mathur, psychotherapist and author of MIND OVER MOTHER

An accessible, empowering primer on trauma, rooted in our most current understanding of the nervous system, memory and healing. Healing doesn’t come from outsourcing our power, but from reclaiming it. This book is for anyone ready to do the real, daily work of healing – with grace, grit and truth.

Ingrid Clayton, PhD, clinical psychologist and author of FAWNING

A revolutionary book that will uplift and inspire you as it gently guides you into true healing.

Zoe Blaskey, Founder of Motherkind and author of MOTHERKIND

A powerful, refreshing and deeply honest guide for those ready to stop outsourcing their healing and start reclaiming it. Dr Sarah Woodhouse blends cutting-edge trauma research with raw personal experience to dismantle the myth that therapy alone can heal our past. With clarity, compassion and courage, she shows that true healing comes not from waiting to be fixed, but from taking small, doable actions that reconnect us with our nervous system, our sense of self and our power. This book doesn’t just inspire you to heal, it empowers you too.

Denise Duffield-Thomas, author of CHILL AND PROSPER