Cara Gormally is a cartoonist, researcher, and professor. Their comics have appeared in The Washington Post, Mutha Magazine, Spiralbound, and other places. They earned a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and is a professor of Biology at Gallaudet University. Cara lives in the DC metro area.

"In this introspective graphic memoir debut, biology professor Gormally uses loose lined drawings and a straightforward panel grid to explore a complex topic: trauma. It's a cathartic deep dive into an all-too-common experience that will appeal to readers of graphic medicine." --Publishers Weekly

"I wish it weren't so easy to relate to this book. A deep, insightful, and dare I say, sometimes funny look at how we all deal with trauma." --Tom Hart, author of the New York Times bestseller Rosalie Lightning

"This generous book is a complex, research-based, and layered roadmap to recovery from trauma. I can't stop thinking about it." --MK Czerwiec, RN, MA, author of Taking Turns

"This book illustrates the high costs that eventually come due when we deny our own needs in favor of always pushing through. It bravely asserts that sometimes the strongest thing we can do is learn how to be soft." --Tessa Hulls, author of Feeding Ghosts

"This book is a map for those who feel lost. An intimate look into the journey of healing. The daily routines, therapy sessions, and thought processes, show us that working to recover from trauma is never easy, but absolutely worthwhile." --Teresa Wong, author of All Our Ordinary Stories

"So many readers will find encouragement and validation from this fascinating story, as it sheds much-needed light on a difficult, misunderstood and lonely process. I loved it."--Sacha Mardou, author of Past Tense: Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself in Therapy

"This deeply empathetic and relatable graphic memoir breaks down the complex experience of reckoning with past sexual trauma."--Natalie Norris, author of Dear Mini

"For anyone who is a recovering work-too-hard "badass," this engaging book draws you in and offers a fresh perspective on the complexities of trauma and therapy and on the most intimate parts of our brains." --Shay Mirk, author of Guantanamo Voices

Publisher: Street Noise Books

Pub date: 2025-04-15

Length: 144 pages