Unbroken: A Survivor’s Journey After Sexual Assault

by Lesley Goth

**WINNER of the LITERARY TITAN BOOK AWARD 2025**
Discover the power of healing and reclaim your strength with A Survivor’s Journey After Sexual Assault. This compassionate guide will provide you with practical tools, affirmations, and insights to support your journey forward from shame, self-blame, and isolation.

Benefits from reading this

Reclaim your strength and sense of selfMove towards a future filled with hope, resilience, and self-compassion
What's inside Unbroken:

Learn how to heal from trauma with empathy and clarityRelatable stories and thoughtful guidance on your journeyPractical tools and affirmations to help you move forwardInsights from over 20 years of experience from Dr. Lesley Goth, a licensed psychologist, speaker, bestselling author, and EMDR specialistTransform your life and reclaim your power from sexual assault
Buy now before the price changes and start your journey towards healing and empowerment with Unbroken.

128 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 17, 2025

Reviews

[Book Reviewer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lesley Goth’s UNBROKEN is a raw, honest, and deeply personal guide for survivors of sexual assault, told through a blend of professional expertise and lived experience. Each chapter addresses tough, often unspoken questions survivors carry. Questions about guilt, bodily autonomy, trust, pleasure, and healing. Goth uses stories, affirmations, and exercises to help readers reconnect with themselves and shed the shame and self-blame they’ve carried. With her compassionate tone and direct guidance, she offers a clear path through the fog of trauma toward hope and recovery.

Goth doesn’t just write like a psychologist; she writes like someone shining a light for those climbing out of their emotional trenches. Her language is simple and heartfelt, never preachy or clinical, which makes it feel like sitting with a wise, loving friend. What hit hardest for me were the sections that dealt with feeling complicit. “What if I liked it?” and “What if I gave consent?” They break open the myths we often use to silence ourselves. She tackles these grey zones without judgment, which is rare and brave and necessary. The real-life stories she includes aren’t sanitized, and that’s what makes them powerful.

I also appreciated the practicality of the book. Goth doesn’t leave the reader with just emotions and theory; she gives you tools. Exercises, guided imagery, breathing techniques, and even journaling prompts--all doable. I tried some of them while reading and was surprised by how quickly they brought up things I hadn’t realized I’d buried. She encourages you to move at your own pace, and that permission alone feels like healing. The tone of the whole book is soft but firm. She doesn’t coddle, but she always has your back. I found myself highlighting entire paragraphs and whispering, “yes,” more than once.

This is not an easy book to read, but that’s the point. It’s for survivors who are ready to stop pretending and start facing the pain, confusion, and sometimes even twisted memories of their trauma. It’s for people who’ve felt lost in therapy, or who haven’t yet found the words for what happened. It’s also a guide for those supporting survivors, partners, friends, and family who want to understand without intruding. UNBROKEN would be especially helpful for anyone navigating the messy aftermath of assault while still trying to function in everyday life.

[Steve Schechter · Rating 5 out of 5]

So many great things all in one place!

We have all had some form of therapy in our lives. Most of us end up moving around from therapist to therapist because our takeaways are never quite enough to get us to the finish line. While I have developed many coping mechanisms, I was surprised to learn so many valuable tools in the author's book that are far above and beyond what I have had at my fingertips so far.

This book is short and sweet. The author uses more that her PsyD as a measure of her authority. Many chapters reveal her vulnerability as she shares her personal trauma which leave no doubt about her authenticity. I am now receiving guided clinical help with EMDR and am thriving with its approach to using mindful containers. My worst perpetrator is in a welded metal box at the bottom of the Laurentian Abyss. He no longer lives rent-free in my head. All of the exercises she shares are straightforward and doable. Her affirmations are extremely valuable too. The more I do them, the better I progress with my healing.

I am very comforted to know that I have all of these tools in one place now so I can't wait to see what her next book will be.

[Lucy Henson · Rating 5 out of 5]

If someone were to put together a -Surviving After Sexual Trauma - toolkit, then this book would 100 percent need to be a part of that toolkit. This book is informative and I will definitely use the affirmations. I loved them. From one survivor to another thank you.