Beyond Surviving with Rachel Grant

There's no doubt that our relationship to touch is impacted by trauma.

We are introduced to touch in all of the wrong ways.

Or...the other possibility is that you experienced neglect and a lack of touch.

Either way, we need to understand our current associations with touch and begin building new connections that give us access to this life giving, joy giving sense!

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Eve gives us a taste of the power of survivor support groups and how they support her in healing. She reflects on the people she meets and the commonalities they discover. Eve also admits how hard it can be to connect when she's not feeling her best. While only 5 months into joining this local community of survivors, Eve's healing journey has been defined by connecting with incredible survivor-mentors who she looks to for hope and strength and reminders to stay connected to truth and intuition. If you feel inspired to contribute to the Survivor Studio that is serving so many of us in the greater New England area, the funds will go towards a designated space for childhood sexual abuse recovery. Please make checks payable to: The Women's Center, with I.R. (Incest Resources) written in the memo section to earmark your gift, and mail to: The Women's Center, 46 Pleasant Street, Cambridge, MA 02139. Whatever the size of your gift, will bring us closer to fulfilling our dream! All donations are tax-deductible (federal tax-exempt I.D. # 23-7131753.

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I connect with Timika Chambers whose mission is to increase compassion, healing, love and truth in the world through her writing and speaking. She shares how owning her truths about her childhood sexual abuse experiences led her out of the darkness and into the light.

We discuss how we can embrace the storms or healing (residual emotions and feelings) related to my childhood sexual trauma to make a pathway for healing that is necessary, possible, and a process.

Website: https://timikaschambers.com/. Download Five Spiritual Truths To Find Your Way Back Home

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/timika-chambers

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April is Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Month and my guest is absolutely one of my most favorite people in the world!

As one who suffered childhood sexual abuse, specifically father-daughter incest, Lyvonne Proverbs is deeply committed to ending childhood sexual abuse in and beyond Black religious spaces.

We cover a lot of a ground – including how to break free of your “pity parties” and commit to healing and how to become co-conspirators in healing (and why we love this word more than ally).

We even chat about all of the ways we love on ourselves so that we can activate our power and presence (it’s a lot simpler than you might think!)

You’ll also learn more about Lyvonne’s work with beautiful scars, an online platform support Black Christian women in finding their voice and healing.

Get a pen and paper, you're going to want to take notes!

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Lyvonne Proverbs, MDiv, a New York City native, is a body and sex-positive pastor, preacher, transformational speaker, spiritual life coach, writer, poet, educator, and conscious creative social entrepreneur. An Emmy-award-winning media producer, Proverbs graduated from Seton Hall University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Honors, Yale Divinity School with a Master of Divinity, and Columbia Theological Seminary with a Master of Theology, where she completed her thesis, The Problem with "Father" God: Incest as a Silent Killer in the Black Church, about preaching, poetry, and sexual trauma. She is a highly sought after presenter and has partnered with Lyft, Auburn Seminary, San Francisco Department of Health, the Atlanta University Center, Young Women Social Entrepreneurs, and more.

Proverbs is the founder of beautiful scars, an online storytelling agency focused on trauma, healing, and resiliency. Her @WereSurthrivors platform is a digital community for Black Christian women who are also survivors of childhood sexual abuse. By harnessing the power of narrative, she is aiding survivors (and communities, at large) to shift from silence to storytelling to put an end to male sexual violence.

Proverbs has been featured in ESSENCE, Cosmopolitan, and The Washington Post magazines and Sojourners named her one of "11 Women Shaping the Church" in March 2019. Proverbs is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and the inaugural cohort of the DO GOOD X Startup Accelerator. She currently resides in Atlanta, GA and can be found on Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as Twitter and Instagram (@LyvonneP).

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Savoring life is often so hard when we've experienced abuse. Instead, numb, rushed, dissociated become the norm.

But your inner child is longing to savor - to enjoy completely. And not just the "good" stuff - but it ALL!

This message arrives right on time for me as I attend to my mother's dying and I hope will serve as a powerful invitation to you today to slow it down and take it all in!

#beyondsurviving #mondaymini #yearoftheinnerchild #savoreachmoment #stresseating #presence #yinandyang #takeitallin #coachrachelsays #nervoussystemregulation #sexualabuse #incestsurvivor #healingsexualtrauma #foryou #viral

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