Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse | Incest
There are common misconceptions about love and boundaries that are meant to protect relationships but actually sabotage them. I’ll clear up the confusion and share the truths so you can care for yourself and others for deeper love and connection.
If you’re a survivor of abuse and neglect, chances are you’ve developed habits and a lifestyle that perpetuates mistreatment. Based on the 3 Stages of Self Care, I’ll help you identify what stage you’re in and the top needs and strategies to support you. You’ll be empowered to reverse unloving patterns and create a life where you’re well cared for.
Even if you’ve developed boundaries in other relationships, it can be especially difficult to set boundaries with your family. They may still see you as a child and might even feel entitled to have a say in your life. Though it can feel frustrating and even shameful to revert to childhood roles, I share powerful tools for finally asserting yourself so you’re free to live on your own terms.
When you’ve experienced childhood sexual abuse, you’ve suffered profound losses. Until you acknowledge and grieve the losses, a part of you remains shut off and shut down. I’ll share the 5 stages of grief you experience as part of healing from abuse and the mistakes to avoid at each stage.
Avoiding discomfort is wired into your brain as survival but it keeps you trapped in survival. To flourish in life, you have to experience discomfort. I’ll give you a new perspective when it comes to avoidance and share the empowering keys you can use to escape the comfort addiction and create your new life.
I’m joined by Andrea Tolkeim and she shares where she started in her healing journey, the challenges, the milestones, and the twists and turns along the way. You’ll be inspired and encouraged and take away some very helpful insights for your own healing journey.
There’s never been more information about healing from trauma. Information might equip you for healing or it might distract you from healing. Learn the hidden traps of more information and how to recognize if it’s actually a coping method and the steps to make your quest for knowledge empowering and fruitful.
When your needs aren’t met in childhood, you may still crave to be rescued now. Whether you’re hyper-independent or still feel powerless, there’s a secret shame in wanting to be taken care of.
I’ll show you where that comes from and how you can heal the original wound and use that desire in a way that actually empowers you.
Processing anger is a vital part of healing from abuse. The sad fact is, abuse also sets us up to suppress our anger, where we turn it inward or we lash out indiscriminately. I’ll show you how you can use anger as your ally and to heal your past and present wounds. There’s no doubt anger will be expressed, but will it hurt you or protect you?
Growing up in abuse and neglect likely means nobody was there for you. You learn to abandon yourself the way that you were abandoned. If you’re there for everyone else while you still feel alone, I share how you can learn to be there for yourself so you can guarantee you’ll never be neglected again.