The Wounds We Carry

Healing Childhood Trauma and Complex PTSD

By: Emily Grace Carter

Narrated by: Sage Nuñez-String

You survived. Now it’s time to heal. The Wounds We Carry is a powerful and compassionate guide for anyone living in the long shadow of childhood trauma and Complex PTSD. Written by trauma survivor and healing advocate Emily Grace Carter, this book blends lived experience with research-backed practices to help you break free from the invisible burdens you've been carrying for years.

Whether you feel stuck, overwhelmed, ashamed, or exhausted, this book will meet you where you are—with empathy, honesty, and hope.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

• Understand the roots and symptoms of Complex PTSD
• Calm your overactive nervous system using mindfulness and breathwork
• Reconnect with your inner child and rebuild emotional safety
• Set healthy boundaries and regain self-trust
• Gently process shame, grief, anxiety, and dissociation

This is not a clinical textbook—it’s a soul-level conversation. A guide from someone who’s been there.

Healing isn’t about becoming someone new—it’s about remembering who you were before the world wounded you.

If you’re ready to release what no longer serves you, reclaim your voice, and build a future rooted in self-compassion, this book is your next step.

You are not broken. You are healing.

©2025 Emily Grace Carter (P)2025 Emily Grace Carter

Grounding

Even if you don’t have “official diagnosis for PTSD” I think you will find this book helpful. I found chapters about calming your nervous system and setting boundaries very relatable.

beautifully guide

the sections on reconnecting with your inner child but as someone who has lived through the pain and found her way toward healing. absolute must-have.

Deeply Healing

This is one of the best audiobooks I’ve listened to in a while. The author explains things with such clarity and gentleness that it's obvious she has traversed this journey in herself. The sections on nervous system regulation, inner-child reconnection, and boundary-setting were compelling. The narration is warm and calm, which makes the heavier topics easier to process. Plus, even listeners without a formal PTSD diagnosis will find a lot here...insight, language for experiences they’ve never been able to describe, and practical tools they can start using right away... Highly recommend.

Practical and short to start healing

This audiobook was a great starting point to understand how childhood trauma works, at least for me. Chapter 2 focuses on that, giving insights into how traumas affect anxiety and body-mind regulation, it’s my favorite. The chapter about healing strategies combines many common practices with some new ones! And that’s not to imply that the old techniques don’t work, they do!

The only con I found is that sometimes the narration sounds a bit saturated, too high at times and too low at others, but aside from that, nothing to complain about. The book delivers what it promises, and I really enjoyed it!

This book is so helpful for those who suffer PTSD

PTSD is not easy to overcome, and understanding what caused it is a major step this book helps you to achieve. It is also good to hear it from Emily and hear about her experience.