Saturday, 2 August 2025

A New Survivor-Centered Release: Phoenix Warriors by Jan L. Frayne (co-authored with survivor and therapist Donna Bailey)

Phoenix Warriors – Beyond the Ashes of Childhood Sexual Abuse 

A groundbreaking new book by Jan L. Frayne and Donna Bailey. 

With unflinching honesty and hard-won wisdom, authors Jan L. Frayne and Donna Bailey present Phoenix Warriors – Beyond the Ashes of Childhood Sexual Abuse, a survivor-led, trauma-informed book that gives voice to the silenced and strength to those still healing. 

Following the success of Jan Frayne’s best-selling book, Beyond Survivor – Rising from the Ashes of Childhood Sexual Abuse, this powerful second volume expands the conversation, weaving two deeply personal testimonies with therapeutic insight, poetic reflection, and grounded tools for recovery.

 “Healing should be a very personal experience,” writes Frayne. “Not everyone reacts to the same stimuli in the same way. This book is not a ‘do as we say’ — it’s a ‘do what feels right for you.’” 

In Phoenix Warriors, Donna Bailey shares her harrowing account of childhood and domestic abuse, alongside inclusive therapeutic content designed for survivors of all genders.

Jan L Frayne offers his extended autobiographical testimony, a short collection of poems, and an extensive set of tools focused on the unique challenges faced by male survivors. 

Together, they explore: 

• PTSD and Complex PTSD 
• Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
• Flashbacks, touch, sexuality, and inner child work 
• Consent, boundaries, and emotional embodiment
• Grounding practices, somatic wisdom, and traditional as well as alternative healing methods.

The result is a work that is not only emotionally intimate and therapeutically grounded, but also fiercely honest, a companion for survivors, loved ones, clinicians, and advocates alike. 

Phoenix Warriors is not about giving answers, it is about making space for truth.

It honours the courage of speaking, the necessity of being heard, and the fierce tenderness of surviving in a world that too often turns away.


Available in eBook, Paperback, Hardcover and Audio book from Amazon stores worldwide.


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