Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure Audiobook by Catherine Simone Gray

Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure Audiobook by Catherine Simone Gray

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial : https://esound.space/full [https://esound.space/full] ID: 805660 Title: Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure Author: Catherine Simone Gray Narrator: Catherine Simone Gray Format: Unabridged Length: 08:51:00 Language: English Release date: 02-25-25 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Women's Health, Social Science Summary: What happens when survivors become mothers? As seen in Roxane Gay’s The Audacity—a mother’s memoir of healing trauma, finding pleasure, and redefining the joys of her body Proud Flesh is a gripping memoir—tender and fierce, incisive and whip-smart—that reckons with the questions what happens when survivors become mothers? and what if we give half the attention to understanding our pleasure as we have to our pain? By the time Catherine Simone Gray was expecting her first child, she was ready to get a 4.0 in motherhood: the best baby books, the months of parenting classes, the loving, supportive partner—mother cum laude. But when she found herself struggling—to birth, to bond, to simply be with her son—she came up against a long-buried truth: the sexual violence and emotional abuse perpetrated against her in an earlier relationship created a wound that hadn’t really healed. It’s the kind of wound that society—and the cultural annals of mainstream motherhood—don’t prepare you for: the kind that makes itself known, on its own time, and demands to be seen before it can be tended. Proud Flesh chronicles how birth and postpartum helped heal Gray from trauma, thrive in her marriage, and find surprise in the joy of her body. Told in two parallel narratives, Gray weaves her postpartum healing journey with the story of her young womanhood, sharing the arc of an abusive relationship and the healthy love she built in its aftermath. A memoir of trauma, survivorship, brightness, and pleasure, Proud Flesh is a testament that we can pursue pleasure alongside our pain, build trust in our relationships, and learn to embrace our eroticism—and that motherhood can be an aid, rather than a hurdle, to this transformation. Contact: info@esound.space

Black Psychedelic Revolution: From Trauma to Liberation--How to heal racial, generational, and systemic trauma through reclaiming Black psychedelic culture Audiobook by Nicholas Powers

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial : https://esound.space/full [https://esound.space/full] ID: 775554 Title: Black Psychedelic Revolution: From Trauma to Liberation--How to heal racial, generational, and systemic trauma through reclaiming Black psychedelic culture Author: Nicholas Powers Narrator: Nicholas Powers Format: Unabridged Length: 07:17:00 Language: English Release date: 01-21-25 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Social Science, Naturopathy & New Age Summary: How psychedelics can heal historical, intergenerational, and racialized trauma—an Afrofuturistic take on Black psychedelia toward joy and liberation The mainstream has long seen psychedelic medicine as the purview of people with privilege: money to burn, time to trip, and the social safety to experiment with drugs without risking arrest or worse. Despite psychedelics’ deep roots in Black and Indigenous cultural practices, most psychedelic spaces have excluded Black people and other People of Color. But psychedelics like psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine are not just for a rarefied liberal elite—and they’re definitely not just for white people.  Combined with quality therapy, safe and equitable access, and full-scale societal healing, psychedelics are a shortcut to liberation, dignity, and power—the “Promised Land” as envisioned by Martin Luther King, Jr. Risqué? Sure. But that doesn’t make it any less true. In Black Psychedelic Revolution, Dr. Nick Powers charts how psychedelics can heal historical, intergenerational, and racialized trauma. He shows how these medicines unlock a return to one’s self, facilitating an embodied experience of safety, peace, and beingness otherwise disrupted by whiteness—and explores psychedelics’ ability to transform individual wellness even as they transcend it. Drugs taken with therapy can heal. But drugs taken with a social movement can heal a nation. Powers unpacks how the Drug War, racist policing, mass incarceration, and community gatekeeping intersect to sideline POC—and specifically Black people—from the psychedelic movement. He moves past “making space” for Black psychedelia to assert instead the need for a full-stop reclamation and revolution: one that eschews psychedelic exceptionalism, breaks down raced and classed constructs of “good” vs. “bad” drugs, realizes true, full-scale healing, and lives into a free, strong, and independent Blackness. With an Afrofuturist lens, Black Psychedelic Revolution takes utopian politics seriously, re-centering social justice around ownership of historical trauma and giving People of Color the authority to define a new humanism. Contact: info@esound.space

Being (Sick) Enough: Thoughts on Invisible Illness, Childhood Trauma, and Living Well When Surviving is Hard Audiobook by Jessica Graham

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial : https://esound.space/full [https://esound.space/full] ID: 773647 Title: Being (Sick) Enough: Thoughts on Invisible Illness, Childhood Trauma, and Living Well When Surviving is Hard Author: Jessica Graham Narrator: Jessica Graham Format: Unabridged Length: 08:26:00 Language: English Release date: 01-14-25 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Psychology Summary: Wise and witty essays on navigating pain, sex, trauma, spirituality, addiction, recovery, and grief from queer neurodivergent trauma resolution guide Jessica Graham In an unapologetic look at living well with chronic illness, writer and meditation teacher Jessica Graham offers smart, funny, raw, and mindful insights on untangling—and embracing—the messy realities of being a human alive on this planet today. Graham gives us permission to accept care—and accept that it’s ok to want care. They weave together personal stories and practical wisdom, grounded in their queer, chronically ill, and neurodivergent identities. They offer their take on managing symptoms, getting creative, setting boundaries, and healing from ableist tropes like “you don’t look that sick” and “we’re all a little ADHD.” Graham also shares vulnerable personal history: the adverse childhood experiences that rewired their body and brain. The workaholism and addictions that kept their pain lying just below the surface. How illness and trauma intersect to obscure the knowledge that we’re each enough, wholly as we are. Graham explores the parts of chronic illness life that don’t get enough airtime: how can we center sex and pleasure when pain gets in the way? How can we live well…while living through late-stage capitalist hell? How can we come into relationship with our pain without falling prey to self-blame, magical thinking, or toxic positivity? Wise and embodied, fearless and necessary, Being (Sick) Enough is both a wild awakening and a love letter to your whole self: the pains and suffering, joys and brightness, and vital connections that hold each of us as we navigate what it means to be here, like this, right now. Contact: info@esound.space

Until I Decide Audiobook by T.I. Lowe

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial : https://esound.space/full [https://esound.space/full] ID: 747370 Title: Until I Decide Author: T.I. Lowe Narrator: Delilah Rosewood, James Anderson Foster Format: Unabridged Length: 06:45:00 Language: English Release date: 01-07-25 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Fiction Summary: Lee Sutton has made a lot of choices in his life that seem to come back to haunt him all at once. After hitting the top successfully and then spiraling out of control, the motorcycle bad boy resolves to make changes. Easier said than done. Especially when he meets the frustratingly beautiful Bellamy McCoy and has to decide how to handle the unexpected feelings that develop for her. Go on the self-discovery journey with Lee as he amends his wrongs and makes a resolution he never thought would come from his lips. Contact: info@esound.space

Dirty South Audiobook by Ace Atkins

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day free trial : https://esound.space/full [https://esound.space/full] ID: 757681 Title: Dirty South Author: Ace Atkins Narrator: Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Length: 10:15:00 Language: English Release date: 12-24-24 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense Summary: When music mogul Teddy Paris, a former teammate from the New Orleans Saints, visits Nick Travers and asks him to help find $700,000 taken from a rap prodigy, Nick can't turn down his friend. The missing money will pay a bounty on Paris's head that was set by a crosstown rival, a street-hard thug named Cash. Nick soon finds himself lost in the world of Gucci-lined Bentleys and endless bottles of Cristal champagne. He sets out with fifteen-year-old rap star ALIAS, seeking a team of grifters that conned the kid. When a killer hits too close, Nick takes ALIAS with him to the Mississippi Delta for the protection and guidance of Nick's mentor, blues legend JoJo Jackson, and his wife, Loretta. Soon Nick, JoJo, and another old-school Delta tough guy do battle in the Dirty South rap world where money, sex, and murder threaten to take down Paris's empire and destroy ALIAS. As cultures clash, the story winds its way through the infamous Calliope housing projects, the newly built mansions of New Orleans's lakefront, and ultimately to the brackish muck of the Bayou Savage. Contact: info@esound.space