Healing After Domestic Abuse: A Practical Recovery Guide for Survivors and Support Workers

Healing After Domestic Abuse is a comprehensive, survivor-centred guide for anyone seeking to reclaim their life after trauma. Drawing on decades of experience with survivors and support professionals, Benjamin Oye explores the full spectrum of domestic abuse—physical, emotional, psychological, sexual, financial, and digital—and offers practical tools for recovery, safety, and empowerment.

This book goes beyond the “just leave” advice, addressing the complex realities survivors face, including trauma bonding, financial dependence, parenting challenges, and cultural pressures. It provides guidance for rebuilding identity, relationships, and autonomy while offering social workers and allies evidence-based strategies for ethical, trauma-informed support.

Filled with actionable exercises, safety planning techniques, and reflective practices, this guide empowers survivors to:

Understand abuse as a pattern of control, not a personal failure

Reclaim autonomy, voice, and self-worth

Navigate financial, emotional, and relational recovery

Build resilience, post-traumatic growth, and wholeness

Support others safely without re-traumatization

Whether you are a survivor, professional, or ally, this book is a practical roadmap to healing, empowerment, and lasting transformation.