Five Ways Reading The Apology Impacted Me
Five Ways Reading ‘The Apology’ Impacted Me Guest Blog by SPT A friend, who knew that I was a sexual abuse survivor, sent me a notice about Eve Ensler’s new book, The Apology, the week that it was published. Eve Ensler is a playwright, best known for her groundbreaking work The Vagina Monologues, which premiered […]Read More
An Open Letter to Self-Defense Instructors
An Open Letter to Self-Defense Instructors Guest Blog by Dr. Jamie Marich and Micah Bender If you work with the public in any capacity, awareness of trauma and the impact unhealed trauma has on the human experience is critical. Mental health professionals refer to this awareness (and its implementation to practice) as being trauma-informed. Many professionals, including […]Read More
Forgive You Father, For You Have Sinned
Forgive You Father, For You Have Sinned Guest Post for The Breathe Network by ST It was just one year ago that I saw Spotlight. I knew that seeing this film might be highly charged for me since, as a child, I had been sexually molested by my father, who was also an Episcopal priest. […]Read More
We Serve All Survivors
We Serve All Survivors “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”―Audre Lorde Amidst these turbulent, political times for our nation, we are witnessing a re-surfacing of the collateral impacts of trauma and its residue. Since trauma invokes intense, and often ongoing, physiological impacts and changes to an […]Read More
We Believe
We Believe… “Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.” -Henry David Thoreau Whether you are just discovering The Breathe Network, or you are someone who has been involved with our work from the beginning, we want you to know about the values and concepts that shape our mission – what it is that […]Read More
12 Elements of Trauma-Informed Care
12 Elements of Trauma-Informed Care “A fundamental key is to recognize that they already know how to heal. Our organism knows how to make protective scars to safeguard the integrity of the body, and the mind does this as well. Hold this belief for them until they experience it for themselves.” -Joshua Sylvae, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner […]Read More
Queering Sexual Violence
Queering Sexual Violence “This is not just survival; it is activism on the most intimate level. It is proof that we can live in a broken world without losing ourselves, and without giving up on it.” -Melissa Febos, author of the memoir, Whip Smart and the essay collection, Abandon Me What does it mean to […]Read More
New Energetic Pathways to Healing
New Energetic Pathways to Healing “The virtue of the universe is wholeness. It regards all things as equal.” -Tao Te Ching One of the greatest insights I have learned in studying Somatic Experiencing, a naturalistic, trauma resolution method came when my teacher reminded us to trust in peoples’ innate capacities to heal, that this was, in […]Read More
Freeze Leads to Survival
Freeze Leads to Survival “We die so that we can live.” (Father opossum to baby from animated film ‘Over the Hedge’) Over the last 12 years, billions of cells have cycled through my body – created, utilized and disintegrated – without any of my own intentional efforts. Most of my life I took these processes for granted. […]Read More
Launching a National Training and Education Campaign
Launching a National Training and Education Campaign Holistic Healing for Survivors of Sexual Violence The Breathe Network has launched an Indiegogo campaign to implement a national training and education project, “Holistic Healing for Survivors of Sexual Violence” that runs until December 11th, 2015. We are bringing together experts in the field of trauma resilience and sexual violence […]Read More
