Betrayal does not remain in the past. It changes how the brain reads danger, how the body responds to closeness, and whether a survivor can trust their own judgment again.

Going Rogue is Laura Weber Garrison's direct, clinically grounded guide to understanding those changes and doing the work of recovery. Drawing from more than two decades of trauma treatment, personal experience, neuroscience, psychology, somatic therapy, narrative work, yoga, and neuroplasticity, Garrison explains what trauma does to the brain, body, nervous system, relationships, and sense of self.

Hypervigilance may look like responsibility. Over-functioning may earn praise while draining the person carrying everyone else. Dissociation may be mistaken for composure. Familiar pain may feel easier to tolerate than an unfamiliar life. Garrison exposes these patterns without reducing survivors to diagnoses or treating survival responses as character flaws.

This is not bubble-wrap therapy. Garrison refuses to coddle readers into remaining trapped inside what happened. She separates responsibility for recovery from blame for the original injury and provides practical ways to regulate the nervous system, recognize trauma bonding, reclaim personal narrative, rebuild self-trust, establish boundaries, and identify the people and patterns that continue damaging the foundation.

Going Rogue combines scientific research with tools designed for life beyond the therapist's office. It is candid, compassionate, occasionally profane, and written for survivors ready to understand what happened, stop organizing life around the injury, and take back the authority trauma has been holding.