Instincts, unshakeable self-confidence, and a 'personal army' can protect you more than any fighting skills class. Faith Roswell teaches you how to build and develop your psychological self-defense, no matter how much experience you have.

We begin consciously learning to defend ourselves around the time we begin learning to speak, and we continue learning for a lifetime. Many of us develop the ability to spot danger very effectively, but we don't realise we are doing it!

Nature has given us skills that we need for psychological self-defense, like instinct, observance, and community, but they are often misunderstood.

We are encouraged to doubt these potentially life-saving skills while observers repeat the same flippant sentence: 'just teach girls karate.'

This book takes a different approach to self-defense, prioritising knowledge, body language, and support over the martial arts-focused strategy that has dominated the self-defense world for so long.