Where Wounds Live: A Collection of Articles in the Aftermath of Trauma
Trauma Paperback – 30 April 2026
by Dr Sam Mishra (h.c)

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Where Wounds Live is a ground breaking collection of articles that takes you deep into the landscape of trauma — not to dwell there, but to find the way through.

Drawing on her background as a nurse, midwife, and trauma practitioner, Dr. Sam Mishra h.c brings both clinical precision and hard-won personal experience to some of the most pressing and rarely spoken-about challenges of our time.

From the long shadow of narcissistic abuse and the silenced reality of male sexual assault, to addiction, body image, grief, generational trauma, and the quiet revolution of somatic healing — this book leaves no wound unexamined.

Spanning 67 articles across ten powerful themes, Where Wounds Live refuses to simplify what is complex or sanitise what is painful. Instead, it offers something rarer: honest, compassionate, and deeply human understanding.

Whether you are navigating your own recovery, supporting someone who is, or working on the frontline of trauma care, these pages will challenge what you think you know — and illuminate what you may never have considered.

This is not just a book about surviving trauma. It is a guide to understanding where it lives inside us, and what it takes to truly come home to ourselves.

Dr. Sam Mishra’s Where Wounds Live is one of those rare books that doesn’t just inform you — it stays with you. As someone who has interviewed authors from all walks of life on the UK Talk Radio Breakfast Show, I can tell you this is not a lightweight, surface-level read. It goes into places many people avoid talking about, and it does so with honesty, intelligence, and real compassion.

What impressed me most is that Dr. Mishra writes from both professional experience and personal understanding. That combination gives the book real authority. You can feel that these subjects are not being approached from a distance or treated like academic theories.

Whether she’s discussing narcissistic abuse, addiction, grief, body image, generational trauma, or the often-overlooked subject of male sexual assault, there’s a sense throughout the book that the reader is being understood rather than judged.

The structure of the book works very well too. With 67 articles spread across ten themes, you can dip into different sections depending on where you are emotionally or what subject speaks to you most.

Some chapters are challenging, and they should be. Trauma is complicated, messy, and deeply personal. What this book does brilliantly is refuse to oversimplify any of it.

I also think the sections on somatic healing are particularly interesting because they introduce readers to the idea that trauma isn’t just something we think about — it can live physically inside us as well. That’s an area more people are beginning to understand, and this book explains it in a very human and accessible way.

This isn’t a book full of clichés or quick-fix solutions. It’s thoughtful, grounded, and courageous. It feels written by someone who genuinely wants to help people make sense of what they’ve lived through and begin moving forward.

If you work in care, support someone dealing with trauma, or you’re trying to understand your own experiences a little better, Where Wounds Live is a powerful and important read.

Reviewed by Geoff Carter, host of the UK Talk Radio flagship Breakfast Show.

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