#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our Culture

Learn how technology is getting weaponized during the COVID-19 shutdown (and always) for people dealing with toxic relationships & intimate partner violence, as well as in the sextortion and abuse of minors and men--and most importantly, learn strategies that can help.

Guests Carrie Goldberg of Victims’ Rights law firm, C. A. Goldberg and #HealMeToo Podcast returning guest, Maisie Breit of the NYC Mayor’s Office to End Gender Based and Domestic Violence (ENDGBV) share a wealth of insights and resources that illuminate:

• The uses of technology in sexual, gender-based and intimate partner harassment & abuse
• The ubiquity of tech abuse as part of intimate partner violence
• Navigating PTSD from past Tech Abuse in this virtual time 
• What changing trends advocates are seeing in these times, including increases in domestic violence, targeting of minors, and sextortion of men, as well  
• What parents and each of us can do to better protect ourselves and prevent our technology
• Ways to safeguard your cell so it’s less of a tracking device
• The importance of keeping a log of all tech abuse events and all evidence of stalkingHow advocates are also using virtual tech to provide support while survivors have been stuck at home.  

Learn more about our guests and find links to Safe Horizon support resource links on our episode page.

Join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as our new YouTube channel as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—focused on the needs of now. 

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019.

Edited by Hope Singsen
Music Credits:
Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. 
Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.

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A very special Podcast Extra with Sherina Davis, professional trainer, ontological coach and educator with Safe Horizon, the largest non-profit victim services agency in the United States. Sherina led us in a short guided meditation to explore the grounding comfort of being quiet and simply present with our bodies, and with deep and gentle breaths.

Sherri Papamihalis, Clinical Director at Safe Horizon’s Counseling Center, and Maureen Curtis, VP of Criminal Justice & Court Programs, joined us for the meditation, and share about the experience afterward.

Learn more about our guests and find links to Safe Horizon support resource links on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0302.

Join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our new YouTube channel as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—focused on the needs of now. 

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Edited by Hope Singsen
Opening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)

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Learn about the incredible work of NYC’s Safe Horizon, the largest non-profit victim services agency in the United States. Maureen Curtis, VP of Criminal Justice & Court Programs and Sherri Papamihalis, Clinical Director at Safe Horizon’s Counseling Center, help kick off the #HealMeToo #AtHome series with an update on the spike in domestic violence and childhood sexual abuse experienced through the shutdown, the sudden recession, and the toll of racial trauma coming up in response to increasing White Supremacist violence, unrelenting police brutality, and the uprising in defense of Black Lives.

Sherri and Maureen also shared ways Safe Horizon has adjusted its therapy and advocacy to address survivors’ changing needs during this crisis, and how virtual services may actually serve to strengthen their offerings, even after they can resume in-person services.   

Learn more about our guests and find links to Safe Horizon support resource links on our episode page.

Join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as our new YouTube channel as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—focused on the needs of now. 

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019.

Edited by Hope Singsen
Music Credits:
Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. 
Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.

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In this Podcast Extra, therapist and Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, David Fredrickson, leads listeners in a short practice called a "Self-Compassion Break." To learn more about this practice, listen to the full conversation with David in S3 E1: The Kindness & Support of Mindful Self-Compassion. Or, watch the full episode on our new YouTube channel.

Join us throughout the summer for new episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as on YouTube as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home--focused on the needs of now.

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Edited by Hope Singsen
Opening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)

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In this Podcast Extra, therapist and Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, David Fredrickson, leads listeners in a short practice called "Supportive Touch." To learn more about this practice, listen to the full conversation with David in S3 E1: The Kindness & Support of Mindful Self-Compassion. Or, watch the full episode on our new YouTube channel.

Join us throughout the summer for new episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as on YouTube as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home--focused on the needs of now.

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Edited by Hope Singsen
Opening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)

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In the Premiere Episode of Season 3, hear the therapist and teacher of a healing practice called Mindful Self-Compassion, David Fredrickson, and learn some techniques that may help you offer yourself loving kindness, support or even comfort right when experiencing stress, discomfort or pain. 

Throughout the #HealMeToo #AtHome series, we'll explore tools that may help with the many forms of trauma that survivors and our communities are encountering in these times of hate violence and the Uprising in Defense of Black Lives, ongoing state violence against immigrants, and the losses, confinement, and economic stress of the COVID-19 pandemic.

David generously shared three guided meditations during the episode, which we’ll offer as Podcast Extras as well, so you can dial them up anytime! At the end of the interview, David also drew on his deep experience working with children who have experienced trauma, to offer ways we can support kids who may be suffering in this hard time. Learn more about David on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0301

Join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as our new YouTube channel as we premiere Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home--focused on the needs of now.  

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Edited by Hope Singsen
Music Credits:
Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers 
Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie

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Announcing the #HealMeToo Podcast's third season -- #HealMeToo At-Home — with insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. Tune in on July 6 on your favorite podcasting platform or on our new #HealMeToo Podcast & Festival YouTube channel.

It’s never been more urgent to change our culture. It’s also never been clearer that all forms of violence intersect, and impact some communities more brutally than others.

Throughout the #HealMeToo At Home series, we’ll highlight ways listeners can take action. And we’ll keep centering the intersecting harms that so many survivors and communities are going through right now. We'll #KeepSharingtheMic to invite advocates, healers and community members to share stories that aren’t getting told, together with ideas and tools that may help.

On July 6, our first episode explores a meditative practice called Mindful Self-Compassion, which can offer support when you are in the grips of pain.

Our second episode welcomes advocates and therapists from Safe Horizon, the largest non-profit victim services agency in the United States, so we can get an update on that spike in domestic violence form early in the shutdown, as well as other family violence we’re not hearing about.

We’ll have conversations that unpack the compound trauma for Black and brown communities in this time—and all times.

We’ll center Latinx survivors with and without status, who’ve been hunted by the government, and now by COVID 19.

We’ll ask how tech abuse is changing in this virtual age.

We’ll learn what the shutdown means for kids dealing with family violence or sexual abuse. And how to spot signs of trauma in young people, and be ready to respond if and when they disclose.

Tune in July 6, to join Founding Artistic Director & Host, Hope Singsen, for the first episode of Season 3: #HealMeToo At Home.

Music Credits:
Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez
Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie
Sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers 

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Sexologist Joli M. Ienuso (@jo_li_brary on IG) discusses the road to heal our intimate relationships after sexual, gender-based or intimate partner violence, including options to gradually reclaim sexual well being and even good sex. Learn more on the episode details page on our website.

In Season 2, we've explored ways survivors and our allies can experience healthier relationships -- in our dating relationships, within our own voice and body, and now, in our sexual practice, too. The pandemic and shutdown interrupted our plans for Season 2, and this episode will be the last in the series on Relationships.

Join us on July 6, 2020 and throughout the summer for new episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as our new YouTube channel as we premiere Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home--focused on the needs of now.  

Subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast & binge Season 1 today, then look for new episodes resuming July 6. Till then, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Audio Direction by Delaney Hafener
Edited by Hope Singsen
Opening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)

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Learn about the powerful work of The Angel Band Project and the unique relationship we have with own own voice—including a playful exercise you can join in from home. Guests include music therapist Katie Down, back again after her appearance in Episodes 1 & 2 of this season, and Rachel Ebeling, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Angel Band Project, as well as Amber, a survivor who just recorded her Song of Survival with Katie and Rachel, for the Angel Band Project’s upcoming cd release. 

In this episode you’ll hear:

• The experience of healing through music that launched The Angel Band Project
• Ways music and playful, curious collaboration can help open up the heart to heal
• Details of a survivor's story navigating, leaving, and starting to heal from a harmful relationship, and how writing and recording a song helped her step forward to be heard
• Excerpts from The Angel Band Project’s original Songs of Survival album, including:
  
  
  • Time To Be Free by Dawn Mason, Lead Vocals Dawn Mason, Vocals: Courtney Arndt
  • Rise Up by Hannah Tombley, Vocals and Piano: Hannah Tombley
  • I’m Not Silent Anymore by Deb Busch, Vocals Deb Busch, Piano: Rocky Tucker
  • Just Keep Running by Tess Sundhausen, Lead Vocals: Tess Sundhausen, Vocals: Courtney Arndt, Guitar: Chris Helmick and Courtney Arndt, Ukelele/Vocals: Devon Cahill
  • Start Living by Erin Rieke, Lead Vocals: Erin Rieke, Accompanying Vocals: Heather Lawyer, Piano: Dave Drebes 
  • Home by Judy Rosen, Tibetan Singing Bowls and Melody: Judy Rosen, Violin: Judy Lindquist, Cello: Caitlin Hawkins, Double Bass: Courtney Arndt, Vocal: Judy Rosen

Buy The Angel Band Project's Songs of Survival on Amazon and cdbaby. For guest bios and related links, visit the episode details page at healmetoopodcast.com.

Throughout Season 2, we'll explore ways survivors and our allies can experience healthier relationships -- whether that’s at work, in our communities, within our own bodies and ourselves, or in our intimate sexual lives.

Subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast & binge Season 1 today, then look for the second installment of A LOVE THING next week. Till then, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

The recording facilities and engineer for this episode were provided through the generous support of Fr. James Hauver, Pastor of St. Columba Church, and Fr. Walter Niebrzydowski of The Fr. Walter Outreach, inc., a nonprofit organization working to repair the effects of sexual violence and gender oppression. You can learn more about their mission to promote the true, the good, and the beautiful through spirituality, media, and technology at fatherwaltersparish.org.

Recorded & Engineered by Corey Kaup
Edited by Hope Singsen
Opening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)

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Hear dancer, choreographer, educator, playwright, and trained natural healer, Jinah Parker explore the ways and reasons that telling our story through movement can be a powerful resource for healing. Jinah is the creator of “SHE” which explores intersections of racial injustice with sexual violence, which The Root describes as “a choreoplay that fiercely tackles sexual, physical, emotional and state violence, along with self-care and healing.” 

Throughout the episode, Jinah shares insights and creative healing tools that we can use from home to sit with whatever we’re feeling, connect with those around us, foster dynamic conversations with our communities, build a more positive relationship with our bodies, and use movement and music to spark some better feelings in our body and self, when we’re feeling stuck.

See Jinah's bio, photos and more details about the episode on the episode detail page. 

Throughout Season 2, we'll explore ways survivors and our allies can experience healthier relationships -- whether that’s at work, in our communities, within our own bodies and ourselves, or in our intimate sexual lives.

Subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast & binge Season 1 today, then look for the second installment of A LOVE THING next week. Till then, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Audio Direction by Delaney Hafener
Edited by Hope Singsen
Opening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)

Support the show