"If we know where the wounds live, we can begin to heal. This powerful collection is a lifetime of work, and if it can serve and soothe even one person, the world will be better for it. Surely it will serve so many. "

- Sierra Melcher, Award-winning Author of Typo: The Art of Imperfect Creation and CEO of Red Thread Publishing.

“Where Wounds Live is not just a collection of articles, it is a deeply compassionate guide through the often unspoken realities of trauma and recovery. Dr. Sam Mishra brings together clinical insight, lived experience, and courageous honesty to illuminate the hidden ways trauma shapes our lives, relationships, and sense of self. In a world where trauma is often misunderstood or minimized, this book stands as both a mirror and a map. It helps readers recognize their own stories while offering language, frameworks, and hope for healing.

Where Wounds Live is more than a book, it is a resource, a companion, and for many, a turning point.”

— Heidi Richards Mooney - Publisher, WE Magazine for Women | Author, The Expectant Author Series

“In Where Wounds Live, Dr. Sam Mishra (h.c.) delivers a profound and symphonic exploration of the human spirit’s capacity to endure and rebuild after the devastating impact of trauma. This collection of 67 articles is far from a standard clinical manual; instead, it serves as a deeply personal homecoming for the wounded healer and anyone navigating the aftermath of abuse, loss, or systemic failure. Drawing from her own lived experience—including the heart-wrenching loss of her children and her personal journey through domestic abuse - Dr. Mishra bridges the gap between medical science and holistic healing with rare authenticity. She rejects the sterile, detached perspective of traditional therapy in favour of a "Language of Safety," reframing traumatic symptoms not as signs of "brokenness," but as the body’s adaptive survival strategies.

Where Wounds Live is ultimately a transformative guide that honours the whispers of the body before they become screams, offering a lantern to those walking through the fire, and proving that the self waiting on the other side has not just survived, but fundamentally and beautifully rearranged.”

- Alessandro Franchina - Business Writer and Adviser, Published Poet,

"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."

 - Geoff Carter, host of the UK Talk Radio Breakfast Show.