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Sexual assault on school campuses has received a lot of attention in the press lately. That doesn’t mean that the number of rapes is...

Awareness of the prevalence and impact of sexual abuse has recently surged in the media following such events as the #MeToo movement and...

Awareness of the prevalence and impact of sexual abuse has recently surged in the media following such events as the #MeToo movement and...

"Anything that is “wrong” with you began as a survival mechanism in childhood." ~ Dr. Gabor Maté Being sexually abused as a child,...

You are not alone. Healing from sexual abuse and rape requires working with every part of the trauma experience – instinct, emotion, images, and thoughts. When faced with a life threatening experience, primitive instincts kick in – fight, flight, freeze, submit (see part 1 and part 2 of this blog). These instincts help you survive the encounter, but leave evidence behind in the form of body memories. The cortisol response that was triggered by the original trauma, can be re-t

You aren’t broken. Trauma and complex PTSD caused by sexual abuse and rape are underdiagnosed and often misdiagnosed as something else....

“Just get over it.” It’s one of the worst things someone can say to a survivor of sexual abuse or rape. And yet how many times have you...