Books by Kenneth Rogers

How to Save Your Inner Wonder Woman is a guide for partners, allies, and caregivers of childhood sexual abuse survivors. It uses the DC comic book superhero Wonder Woman to heal compassion fatigue.Author, and male survivor of childhood sexual abuse, Kenneth Rogers, Jr. strives to help professional caregivers and the loved ones of survivors of childhood sexual abuse battle the effects of burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress.With Wonder Woman as an extended metaphor, the reader is taken on the healing journey of the caregiver to learn the strategies needed to practice trauma stewardship in the midst of understanding and helping male and female survivors heal from their childhood sexual abuse. Previous books in the series include: - Heroes, Villains, and Healing: A Guide for Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Using D.C. Comic Superheroes and Villains - How to Master Your Inner Superman: A Guide for Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Using Superman to Help Conquer the Need for Facades - How to Kill Your Batman: A Guide for Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Using Batman to Heal HypervigilanceRogers says, "How to Slow Your Inner Flash is my next project that will help male and female survivors of childhood sexual abuse battle workaholism using The Flash."About the Author: A native of Peoria, Illinois, award-winning author Kenneth Rogers, Jr. has been a secondary English teacher for ten years and currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland. "After writing my self-help book, Heroes, Villains, and Healing, I realized there was still more that could be written to help other male survivors. Each comic character (whether hero or villain) could be used to focus on a specific trauma to help other survivors."

How to Master Your Inner Superman uses the DC comic book superhero Superman to help male survivors of childhood sexual abuse understand and heal from their childhood trauma.This self-help guide explores the use of internal family system therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy to conquer the need to cope with the trauma of childhood sexual assault through the use of living life behind the façade of a false identity.Kenneth Rogers uses writing exercises, his own autobiographical stories, and the different identities of Clark Kent, Superman, and Kal-El throughout DC comic books as an extended metaphor to help guide male survivors toward understanding how to save their inner Superboy and heal their childhood sexual abuse.About the Author: A native of Peoria, Illinois, award-winning author Kenneth Rogers Jr. is currently an English teacher for Wooster City Schools. "After writing my self-help book, Heroes, Villains, and Healing, I realized there was still more that could be written to help other male survivors. Each comic character (whether hero or villain) could be used to focus on a specific trauma to help other survivors." His second book in the series is How to Kill Your Batman: A Guide for Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Using Batman to Heal Hypervigilance. Coming up next is How to Save Your Wonder Woman, a guide for the partners and allies of male survivors that uses the DC comic book superhero Wonder Woman to heal compassion fatigue.

How to Kill Your Batman uses the character Batman to help heal male survivors of childhood sexual abuse.Using material from his previous award-winning self-help book, Heroes, Villains, and Healing: A Guide for Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Using D.C. Comic Superheroes and Villains, author Kenneth Rogers Jr. this time focuses on the character Batman, to help male survivors understand the pitfalls of hypervigilance after being sexually abused.The trauma of childhood sexual abuse is related to the childhood trauma in Batman's story, when a young Bruce Wayne witnesses the death of his parents. In the first part of the book, the author explores the term "Boy Code" and the societal norms of being a "real" man.In part two, the harms of hypervigilance are explained, using Batman and the development of cognitive distortions by male survivors as a result of being sexually abused.Part three helps survivors understand how to "kill their Batman," allowing them to explore the need for intimacy and healing rather than hypervigilance. Throughout each part, Kenneth includes autobiographical stories of his own struggles with hypervigilance as a sexual abuse survivor striving to heal, grow, and become a "good" man rather than a "real" man.About the Author: A native of Peoria, Illinois, Kenneth Rogers, Jr. teaches secondary English. How to Kill Your Batman is his ninth book. Over the span of eleven years as an author, he has won six national indie book awards. How to Kill Your Batman is the first in the How to Kill Your Superhero series. His next book in the series will be How to Kill Your Superman.Publisher's website: www.sbpra.com/KennethRogersJr

The third and final book in the trilogy, Chronicles of the Last Liturian – Book Three: Infinite Truths & Impossible Lies, answers questions about fate, and the choice between love over fear.                 In book one, Kevin enters Antique Books, discovering the diary of Oliver Lee. After taking it home to read, Kevin learns of Oliver Lee’s ability to Stream stories and his search for a loving interracial couple to return the story he Streamed from their loving encounter.In book two, a young girl, Alex, enters Antique Books in the 1960s and finds the story of Kevin, his search for Oliver Lee, and answers to Kevin’s possible connection to her. Her grandmother, GG, reveals how she knew Kevin as a boy, when she was called Jennifer.Book three introduces Spero, the granddaughter of Alex, and the daughter of a loving interracial couple, Kevin and Jennifer. The past is finally revealed about Oliver Lee and the lies he told to save Kevin, Jennifer, Spero, and others. Their Streamed stories unveil the relationship between a young black man, Ollie, and an ambitious young white woman named Erica.Following the Civil War, Antique Books is just being built. Erica is the owner and Ollie is her sales clerk. The young man seems odd and mysterious. His captivating stories speak of a future yet to come. Although Erica is engaged to be married, she yearns for Ollie and a future that can never be.About the Author: Kenneth Rogers Jr. is the author of seven books, including Heroes, Villains. and Healing, and is the winner of five national book awards. He teaches high school English and lives with his loving wife, Sarah, and two daughters, Mirus and Amare. 

Raped Black Male tells my story of being homeless and struggling to overcome depression while coming to terms with being sexually assaulted by my sister at age eight. Beginning in my middle school years, the novel weaves its way through the ''90s to present day, as the stress of exceeding expectations of what it means to be a black male and the crippling unspoken belief that says (without saying) - it''s impossible for a man to be raped - has forced one mental breakdown after another, resulting in thoughts of suicide. This memoir is filled with depth, humor, and honesty about the reality and myth of what it means to be a black male (not all of us can handle a basketball or football), while explaining the burden and responsibility each assigned title has had on my life, the way I prepare my seventh grade students to enter the world, and the way my shattered thoughts have forced me to interact. Using original journal entries written during my early life, each page is inspirational and told from the heart.