I Don't Need Your Forgiveness to Heal: The Unfiltered, Sometimes Funny Truth About Trauma, The Body

"I Don't Need Your Forgiveness to Heal: The Unfiltered, Sometimes Funny Truth About Trauma, the Body & Owning Your Healing"

What if everything you've been told about healing from trauma is wrong?

In this groundbreaking book, Zelda Marsh challenges the "forgiveness industrial complex" with raw honesty, cutting-edge science, and a healthy dose of Northern English humour. From growing up in Grimsby with twisted legs and absent parents to navigating the messy reality of generational trauma, Marsh offers something rare in trauma literature: unvarnished truth wrapped in unexpected laughter.

This isn't your typical self-help book with Instagram-friendly platitudes and neat conclusions. It's a proper, messy, sometimes darkly comic journey through:

• How trauma physically rewires your nervous system (and why your body keeps the score even when your mind wants to move on)
• Why forgiveness is sometimes toxic and boundaries are often more healing
• The science behind why laughter can be as therapeutic as tears
• How to recognise ancestral patterns before you repeat them for the hundredth time
• Practical tools for healing that don't require you to "just get over it"

• Written in an authentic Lincolnshire voice with academic rigour and zero filter, Marsh weaves her personal story with evidence-based approaches to trauma recovery. From "The Kitchen Floor Epiphany" to "How to Tell People to Sod Off Without Feeling Guilty," each chapter combines vulnerability, science, and unexpected humour.

Whether you're a trauma survivor, a helping professional, or simply someone who's tired of toxic positivity, this book offers a revolutionary message: Your healing has never depended on anyone else's apology or acknowledgement. It's always been yours to claim.

And sometimes, the most revolutionary act is finding something to laugh about when the world expects you to cry.

Contains mature themes and Northern English expressions that may cause unexpected snorting of tea through the nose.