Poems for Trauma Recovery, Love, Loss & Belonging

11/06/2026

Exciting news—my book is now available in another county! Huge thanks to the lovely Patrice, owner of Leabhair & Lattes in Carlow, for having copies for sale 🥰💪

The reviews and feedback have been wonderful.

'I highly recommend this book. Attracta’s poems are beautiful, lyrical, tender and powerful. They offer compassion and understanding to survivors of childhood trauma and their supporters'.

Kim Hosier

09/06/2026

Check out my new author page where you can read a little about me and purchase my book ☺️

Attracta Gill is an Irish author and poet currently in practice as a psychotherapist. Her debut book of poems is titled ‘Poems for Trauma Recovery, Love, Loss and Belonging’ and i

09/06/2026

🤫 This was common in the 1980s. Reports to Gardai of sexual abuse crimes against children were neither investigated nor acted upon. In my personal experience, Gardai need extensive training to become trauma-informed and survivor-focused. Instead, survivors are left exposed to institutional betrayal trauma, meaning that the very systems that are supposed to protect you fail to do so.

☺️ My book combines personal testimony and clinical research, and questions these very frameworks.

🤐 This research has informed me that there is a societal turning away from survivors and that society itself acts as a barrier to the disclosure of sexual abuse.

😓 Sadly, it is often up to the survivors themselves to give up their anonymity and speak out for change.

💪 However, this can be viewed as the counterstory, a resistance strategy that aids in repairing their identity and reintegrating them into the social and moral community.

🙌 Well done to these men who are survivors of pa******le Bill Kenneally and have the courage to challenge the narrative and hold to account the very structures and systems that are meant to protect little children, yet do nothing.

09/06/2026

It's been quite a whirlwind since my book was published. It is now available at the oldest bookshop in Dublin, 'The Last Bookshop', located in the heart of Camden Street, and at Alan Hanna's bookshop in Rathmines

🥰 I'm honestly blown away by all of the wonderful responses

🥰 If you are finding it hard to rebuild your life after the societal silencing and shaming of childhood trauma, this book is for you.

5-star reviews have been coming in from Amazon 💪

'I read this whole book in one sitting. Beautiful, raw, empowering and with the added feeling of being held by a professional psychotherapist. A wonderful combination of lived experience and professional expertise'-Emma King

https://attractagillauthor.com

28/05/2026

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20/05/2026

Thank you, ShadowScript Publishers. It's been such a pleasure to work with you 🥰

We've been working in the background with Attracta from Poems for Trauma Recovery, Love, Loss & Belonging in building and curating a shiny new author website for her and we'll be going live with it in coming days. Stay tuned for more...

17/05/2026

My therapeutic poetry book for trauma recovery is also available on Amazon.ie. Buy it for a friend who may be struggling with the process of recovery. It’s a guide for all humans who have experienced hurt, shame or rejection and are looking for some soothing wise words to guide them back to their inner home 💗

https://www.amazon.ie/Poems-Trauma-Recovery-Love-Belonging/dp/1919440453/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=N76MB08SQ6L&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Lntf0wIg-KK6FTiQoOkHTg.MRJW6dM1dB4becemMIBK_6HL8jr7p60XpIjstEWvrUU&dib_tag=se&keywords=attracta+gill&qid=1779015433&sprefix=%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-1

16/05/2026

My book has arrived in O’Mahoney’s bookstore Limerick. If you’d like one just pre-order from their website and it will be dispatched over the weekend 👏💗💪

15/05/2026

🌻Please take time to read this review by my colleague Ann Bracken who attended my book launch last week in Dalkey. Buy this book if you have been impacted by childhood trauma and would like some embodied poetic words to help you on your healing journey 🌻

On Thursday evening, I went to support a talented, creative, heart full fellow therapist as she launched her incredible book of, ‘Poems for Trauma Recovery, Love, Loss & Belonging’ by Attracta Gill

I thought I went to support her until I realised what a profound support her book is for me and will be for others on their healing journeys. I knew this from the dedication on the back of her book, “For the daughters who were silenced, for the women who survived, for the souls still searching for home.”

She began to share her poetry and words of wisdom with as Attracta describes it, “unflinching honesty and fierce compassion”. Each one a beautiful expression of a journey from traumatic hurt to self compassion and love. What these poems do most is give voice in place of silence.

Trauma is silenced in so many ways, especially childhood abuse. It’s silenced institutionally, it’s silenced in families, it’s silenced in cultures. Its currency is often in expressions that serve to further shut down and shame, “leave it in the past” or “I thought you had therapy for that” or in the pervasive disapproving look with no words.

This shutting down is deeply wounding and further victimises the survivors of ‘unspeakable’ events that were not of their choosing… the crimes they carry and must not speak of. Silenced first by the perpetrators and echoed in those you meet. As we know as therapists, so many girls and women learn to be compliant and quietly scream inside.

Attracta’s eloquent poems and insightful introductions open the door to truth and reject the perpetual shaming and silencing of women.

As she expresses, ‘trauma work is brave work’ and (as all us survivors know only too well) the past, she explains, lives in our nervous system until met with understanding. Our experiences of safety or not are also expressed in the relationships we choose.

This book of poetry can be a friend to those who want to express their voice and cast off the oppressive cloak of silence to ‘Grow a Cloak of Love’ - it’s also accompanied by illustrations to inspire you as you move through her book. It can be a gentle healing guide as you or your client find the courage to speak out, to say no - to listen to their inner voice and align with self protecting boundaries.

This book is an aid to speak your truth, as you walk with fellow travelers who support and honour you on your journey. A book for every woman on this path and a wonderful recommendation for the brave clients who embark on their journey towards healing. I certainly intend recommending it.

As you’ll gather, I went to support her and her poetry and open hearted honesty supported me instead. Oh those special encounters. 🙏🏼💖

This poetry collection offers an unflinching and compassionate exploration of healing, resilience and the human search for home; through the lens of trauma recovery.

15/05/2026

🌟BREAKING NEWS🌟

My book is now ready to purchase on Amazon. Just follow the link below and read the amazing review by Ann Bracken, trauma-informed psychotherapist and author.

"Trauma is silenced in so many ways, especially childhood abuse. It’s silenced institutionally, it’s silenced in families, it’s silenced in cultures. Its currency is often in expressions that serve to further shut down and shame, “leave it in the past” or “I thought you had therapy for that” or in the pervasive disapproving look with no words.

This shutting down is deeply wounding and further victimises the survivors of ‘unspeakable’ events that were not of their choosing… the crimes they carry and must not speak of. Silenced first by the perpetrators and echoed in those you meet. As we know as therapists, so many girls and women learn to be compliant and quietly scream inside.

Attracta’s eloquent poems and insightful introductions open the door to truth and reject the perpetual shaming and silencing of women.

As she expresses, ‘trauma work is brave work’ and (as all us survivors know only too well) the past, she explains, lives in our nervous system until met with understanding. Our experiences of safety or not are also expressed in the relationships we choose.

This book of poetry can be a friend to those who want to express their voice and cast off the oppressive cloak of silence to ‘Grow a Cloak of Love’ - it’s also accompanied by illustrations to inspire you as you move through her book. It can be a gentle healing guide as you or your client find the courage to speak out, to say no - to listen to their inner voice and align with self protecting boundaries.

This book is an aid to speak your truth, as you walk with fellow travelers who support and honour you on your journey. A book for every woman on this path and a wonderful recommendation for the brave clients who embark on their journey towards healing. I certainly intend recommending it.

As you’ll gather, I went to support her and her poetry and open hearted honesty supported me instead. Oh those special encounters🙏🏼💖"

Please spread the word 🙏

This poetry collection offers an unflinching and compassionate exploration of healing, resilience and the human search for home; through the lens of trauma recovery.