Helping women and girls whose lives have been turned upside down by rape or other bad experiences.
A blog about sexual consent, rape, sexual harassment, sexual assault, power dynamics, etc.
Last week I helped my mom recover from major surgery. While I was caring for her, I tapped in to a lot of the feelings and actions from my relationship with my daughter. I started thinking about the circle of life, and how I once needed her like she now needs me, and how she was the one who taught me to care for someone like this. It got me thinking about how what I’ve learned from her. And what I haven’t.
Read MoreHas sexual assault or sexual harrassment turned your life upside down?? You don't have to figure this out alone. You just need someone who has the training and experience to know how to help. Using EMDR, mindfulness, animal-assisted counseling, and other evidence-based approaches, I have guided many women and girls from feeling broken to feeling in control and able to enjoy life now. Ultimately, you will have a deeper understanding of how you’ve been affected by what happened to you, and you'll be able to put it in the past and live fully now.
For this installment, I spoke with Gregg Hansen, a drummer and drum teacher from Longmont. Gregg teaches djembe drumming classes through the Longmont Recreation Center, and he also organizes free community drum circles in various locations.
Sex assault is all over the news recently, and many survivors are getting triggered. As a parent or loved one of a survivor, it’s important to learn some strategies to help your child both immediately after their assault, and later in their life when their trauma can resurface due to unforeseen circumstances, like what’s happening in the current media.
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We have video funerals, like we have video conferences, and video doctor visits. We’re starting to gather, in some cases, with 6 feet between a handful of local mourners. It doesn’t feel like enough to me. Even the most satisfying funeral for a single COVID death isn’t the place to address the connection between all the deaths, and all the mourners. All the common threads among the lives that will never be the same after this pandemic. I feel a need for an additional way to mourn that acknowledges the global community of mourners, and honors the collective nature of our losses. One that enables mutual support among mourners who perhaps have different losses that are all part of the larger phenomenon.