Tending the Bones

Reclaiming Pleasure after Transgenerational Sexual Trauma--A 13-month somatic journey of ancestral ritual and embodiment

by Pavini Moray, PhD

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Pub Date 28 Jan 2025 | Archive Date 28 Jan 2025

North Atlantic Books

Health, Mind & Body | Nonfiction (Adult) | Self-Help

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Description

A 13-month guided pathway for healing transgenerational sexual trauma

Body-based practices, ancestral connection rituals, and reflective empowerment exercises to integrate trauma, build resilience, center pleasure, and reclaim wholeness

Healing from sexual trauma is deep, transformative, and life-changing work. And when we begin the journey to address not just our own traumas but those borne by our ancestors, we heal across generations—finding wholeness and reclaiming erotic wellness for ourselves while lovingly tending the harm and trauma carried in our lineages.

From altars to reverence practices, resilience plans to somatic resourcing, Tending the Bones holds you in care and power. Pavini Moray, PhD invites you to reconnect to the profound wisdom of your body—and your ancestors.

Part One: Build Inner Resources offers skills, practices, and resilience tools essential to healing the wounds of transgenerational sexual trauma
Part Two: Heal Trauma helps you acknowledge and integrate traumatic experiences and invites you to explore what justice means to you.
Part Three: Savor shows you how to connect and work with ancestral guides. It also explores principles of somatic sexuality for recovering wholeness and pleasure after sexual trauma.

Guided by the 13 lunar cycles of the year, each module includes a ritual, prayer, poem, daily practice, and worksheet for reflection and healing. With chapters like “Blessing Moon,” “Ancestor Moon,” “Sovereign Moon,” “Integration Moon,” and more, Tending the Bones takes a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to healing from sexual trauma and provides a safe container and solid foundation to explore this deep transformational work.

Engaging, warm, and authentic, Tending the Bones centers your experiences as a reader and survivor, whether you’ve experienced sexual trauma, are living the embodied impacts of your ancestors’ trauma, or both.

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Advance Praise

“Tending the Bones offers a brilliant and much-needed map of embodied and ancestral pathways for transforming inherited sexual trauma and accessing pleasure that is whole. The thirteenmoon journey Pavini offers unabashedly roots in the body, welcomes creative exploration and calls us to trust what we deeply know. This book is chock-full of exquisite invitations and simple yet profound ritual practices for healing and cultivating connection with supportive ancestors. Readers receive clear instruction in discernment and boundaries to navigate ancestral trauma effectively and with grace. Pavini has crafted such a powerful and unique blueprint toward creating legacies of erotic wellness and nourishing pleasure—this book is a treasure!”

—TAYA MÂ SHERE, priestess, host of the Jewish Ancestral Healing podcast, and founder of From the Deep

“In this brilliant, essential book of healing, Pavini Moray offers a clear, practical, and pleasurecentric path back to your body after trauma. Using the simple, powerful tools I recommend to all my students—breath, movement, vocalization, imagination, and clarity of intention—Tending the Bones gives you gentle yet powerful guidance on how you can work with and through your past to arrive warmly and ecstatically back home to yourself in the present.”

—BARBARA CARRELLAS, author of Urban Tantra