Heroes, Villains & Healing: Marvel Edition
A Powerful Book Out In June
Looking at healing after abuse, this book looks to be a challenging yet important subject. Heroes, Villains & Healing: Marvel Edition is out in June 2024.
Heroes, Villains, and Healing allows survivors to view their thoughts and actions through the lens of Marvel heroes and villains they love and hate. Characters such as Wolverine demonstrate how trauma can cause the strongest to forget and block out the pain of the past, while powerful characters such as the Hulk and Thing view themselves as monsters, using their anger and strength to mask their pain, fear, and sense of loneliness. While filled with fantastic radioactive mutations, arch-nemesis, and super soldiers, the realm of superheroes and villains provides survivors the ability to safely explore the theories and applications of cognitive behavior therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and internal family systems therapy to heal their cognitive distortions and become complete individuals. Comics, while designed to be read through the lens of good vs. evil and hero vs. villain, can cause survivors to view their reality, their actions, and the actions of others in the same black-and-white terms. However, reality is more complex, containing contrasting colors and shades of grey.Â
Kenneth Rogers Jr. is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and an active member of the Rape Incest National Network (RAINN) Speaker's Bureau, which gives him the credentials needed to help and guide other male survivors of child sexual abuse through the process needed to heal.
His eight years as a secondary English educator, masters degree in education from Johns Hopkins School of Education (the number one ranked school of education in the country), and bachelors degrees in English and political science from Bowling Green State University, provide him with the needed tools to write effective and useful curriculum essential to helping male survivors understand and overcome their coping mechanisms to associate memories of childhood sexual abuse.
As a communicator and public speaker, Kenneth Rogers has competed for and won numerous national and international titles in public address speaking, limited preparation speaking, and dramatic prose reading as a member of the Forensics Speech and Debate Team of Bowling
Green State University from 2004-2008. This has allowed him to hone the skills needed to speak and to inform other survivors, therapists, and educators about the necessity to heal from childhood sexual abuse.
As an award-winning author, Kenneth has won a total of six indie book awards. In the genre of science fiction, he was the winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award and NABE Pinnacle Achievement Book Award for his novel, Sequence. In the genre of self-help, he was a finalist in the National Indie Book Award and Independent Press Award, and winner of the Beverly Hills Book Award and NABE Pinnacle Achievement Book Award.Â
HEROES, VILLAINS, and HEALINGÂ is on-sale on June 4, 2024.Â
Urano World I June 4, 2024 I EnglishÂ
Paperback IÂ 256 pages
$22.00
ISBN-13: 9781953027412
