The Power We Hold Podcast S01 Ep08: Sexual Assault Recovery

02/20/23 • 85 min

Thank you for joining me, your host and eco-visual artist Vanessa Albury, on my journey to becoming a better ally to people of all diversities (bipoc, LGBTQAI2S+, non-normative brained and embodied +) and steward of the environment in podcast form as The Power We Hold! This is part of Coral Projects' work in eco-consciousness healing. My co-host, Caleb Williams, is also an artist. She is 21 years my junior and makes art about her experience as a Black woman in America. We have in-depth conversation together and with others about difficult topics full of love and healing.

Trigger warning: It's about healing from sexual trauma. We do not go into details, but please decide if this is for you.

Episode 8 is a very powerful conversation between Caleb and I about healing from sexual assault. We feel this is an important topic to share. We both hit triggers and blocks to move through in order to get it out there. Sharing growth from trauma is one of the final signs of healing through it. There is no dodging the trauma in healing. There are acceptance, responsibility for the self and choices all the way.

I open with context around how I see healing and the contemporary moment we are all in together around women’s bodies. I share my masterclass Get the Love You Deserve which is my 4 steps of healing to moving out of jobs and relationships that did not serve me into living the life of my dreams, truly BEYOND my dreams.

I hope our conversation supports you. Please share it with 3 other people, and at least 1 cis-gendered man. We all need to be in this conversation. We need healing around sexual assault as a community. Let’s keep talking about how we heal!

Thank you for your participation in this powerful conversation.

Originally recorded July 12, 2022 in Brooklyn, NY.

Show Notes:
The Power We Hold Podcast IG, website
Vanessa Albury IG, website
Coral Projects IG, website + Make a tax-deductible donation
Caleb Williams IG, website
Music Clear Skys by Wael Elhalaby IG, Soundcloud
Audio Editing by Bryan Klausing Rain Junkies website, LinkedIn
Coral Projects in Italy + Hyperallergic
Caroline Myss
Karpman's Drama Triangle
Master Sri Akarshana
Get the Love You Deserve Masterclass
Phoenix Rising

The U.S. Department of Justice reports that: 73% of sexual assaults are perpetrated by a non-stranger. 28% by an intimate partner. 7% by a relative of the victim.
Agnes Vivarelli
To Be Magnetic
Fight, flight, fawn and FREEZE
Hotline for sexual assault 800-656-HOPE (4673) + Link has chat line too

Trigger warning: It's about healing from sexual trauma. We do not go into details, but please decide if this is for you.

Thank you for your participation in this powerful conversation.

Originally recorded July 12, 2022 in Brooklyn, NY.

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The Power We Hold Podcast S01 Ep07: Part II of Trevor and Vanessa in conversation with Heather McGhee's The Sum of Us

Thank you for joining me, your host and visual artist Vanessa Albury, on my journey to becoming a better ally to people of all diversities (bipoc, LGBTQAI2S+, non-normative brained and embodied especially) and steward of the environment in podcast form as The Power We Hold! My co-host is Caleb Williams who is the painter that I collaborate with on Between the Windows. She is 21 years my junior and makes art about her experience as a Black woman in America. We have in-depth conversation about difficult topics full of love and healing.
In episode 7, we reair part II of the conversation Trevor Bayack and Vanessa Albury had with Heather McGhee about her essential-reading book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, covering how racism hurts the privileged class. Heather McGhee is a writer, an activist and a regular guest on all the political shows such as CNN, Tedx, MSNBC, C-Span, Face the Nation among countless others. Heather throws the door wide open for new aware of the subversive problem of a meager benefit that maintains racist stratification and a new way to approach healing it.
I open the episode with some thoughts around my progress and the growth I see on my horizons. I hope this perspective supports you.

Originally recorded March 19, 2021 in Brooklyn, NY and aired on April 6, 2021.

Show Notes:
The Power We Hold Podcast IG, website
If you enjoy The Power We Hold podcast, please consider supporting us in covering the costs to create it on Patreon via Coral Projects.
Host Vanessa Albury IG, website
Co-host Caleb Williams IG, website (She's got great swag for sale!)
Coral Projects IG, website, creating underwater, eco-contemporary art to re-wild the ocean with oysters and corals.
Make a tax-deductible donation to Coral Projects and NY Oyster Reefs
Between the Windows IG, public art collaboration with Caleb
Music by Wael Elhalaby IG, Soundcloud
This is a clip from his song Clear Skys.
Audio Editor, and my cousin, making magic from my home recordings, Bryan Klausing of the Rain Junkies website, LinkedIn
Trevor's details:
Freedom Market, freedommarketnbk IG - Shop products made by BIPOC-owned businesses, many are eco-friendly. And you'll find Caleb's t-shirts with her brand Urban Jungle now on the FM!
Special thanks to Jason Todd of Mike's Bikes for the original audio engineering.
Heather McGhee's details:
Her book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Do buy it from your local bookstore, bipoc owned if have one in your city. My favorite NYC bipoc-owned bookstore is also feminist, called Cafe Con Libros does ship!
Her website with appearance and talks linked.

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The Power We Hold Podcast S01 Ep09: Leave It Better NYC - Happy Earth Day 2023!

Thank you for joining me, your host, eco-visual artist Vanessa Albury, on my journey to becoming a better ally to people of all diversities (bipoc, LGBTQAI2S+, non-normative brained and embodied +) and steward of the environment in podcast form as The Power We Hold! This is part of Coral Projects' work in eco-consciousness healing. My co-host, Caleb Williams, is also an artist. She is 21 years my junior and makes art about her experience as a Black woman in America. We have in-depth conversation together and with others about difficult topics full of love and healing.
It's been 63 years since the first Earth Day. It was a revolution. It was not a sale on your next new whatever. Today we need that revolution more than ever. Revolution can be joyful. It is fun to heal! It is fun to adjust towards love. There are no quick fixes. To bring everyone along there are no easy answers, but there are WORTHY questions and WORTHWHILE solutions available for us, if we do the work. I don't know what they are because we haven't fully committed yet as a collective to the questions, but I do know from my own experience of asking hard questions, being vulnerable and leaving no one out , something better than I can imagine happens. So let's do the work, together! Together is the only way! Calling everyone in IS the way.
I did just that. Today I share background and details of Leave It Better NYC, an eco-performance art piece I completed yesterday in honor of Earth Day. Since Earth Day is today, Saturday, I chose end of business Friday to deliver back to the owners of Poland Spring and Blue Triton (which makes Poland Spring) 377 single-use plastic water bottles, caps and labels I collected from the streets of NYC on my walks and bike rides from September until April 20th. I emptied the 2 recycling bag full in the lobby of their offices at 30 Rock Plaza and well, they didn't really like it. But you know what, I don't like seeing their trash all over the streets and knowing that it ends up the oceans increasing global temperatures and acidification. Examining our own trash can be a bitter pill to swallow when you aren't accustomed to examining your crap. I also delivered a 2-page letter to the owners and partners of One Rock Capital Partners, the $6B company that owns Poland Spring, full of love and invitation to step up to be the global leaders we need them to be.
PLEASE get inspired to make your own giant leaps in going green! It's safe to learn! It's safe to try something else out and risk being liked by others for love! The love of self, others, and the love of this BEAUTIFUL and FASCINATING planet that we get to call home! Enjoy!
Show Notes:
The Power We Hold Podcast IG, website
Vanessa Albury IG, website
Coral Projects IG, website + Make a tax-deductible donation
Caleb Williams IG, website
Music Clear Skys by Wael Elhalaby IG, Soundcloud
Audio Editing by Bryan Klausing Rain Junkies website, LinkedIn
Coral Projects in Italy + Hyperallergic

Allegorie, food-waste plant-leather company with gorgeous accessories

The Power We Hold - The Power We Hold Podcast S01 Ep08: Sexual Assault Recovery

Transcript

The Power We Hold Podcast

With Host Vanessa Abury + Co-host Caleb Williams

“Pilot Script” PDF

I do have scripts for any of our shows since we are an unscripted conversational podcast. However, here is the transcript of a recent episode of conversation between Caleb Williams and Vanessa Albury about healing and recovering from sexual assault. Below the transcript are the show note for this episode.

Season 1 Episode 08 - Sexual Assault Recovery

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