April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and in this episode I share my personal experiences as a survivor of sexual abuse and emotional incest. For a long time, I didn't have names for what happened to me. I just knew something felt wrong.

Chapters

• 00:00 Sexual Abuse Awareness Month
• 05:20 Trauma Anniversaries
• 09:40 Emotional Incest
• 25:27 Consent and Boundaries
• 33:21 Spectrum of Sexual Abuse
• 36:13 Grooming and Why Survivors Stay Silent
• 40:44 Resources and Healing

Resources

• RAINN Hotline — 1-800-656-HOPE
• Crisis Text Line — Text HOME to 741741
• SNAP
• Psychology Today Therapist Finder
• YWCA (not YMCA 😅)
• Incest Aware Alliance
• Healing and C-PTSD Foundation
• Silently Seduced — Kenneth Adams
• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents — Lindsay C. Gibson
• The Emotional Incest Syndrome — Patricia Love
• Fawning — Dr. Ingrid Clayton
• Perry Power on Instagram
• Brad Shore on YouTube
• EP.064 with Dr. Ingrid Clayton
• RAYE — Life Boat
• Redd & The Paper Flowers

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