Today, we are talking about Relational Health in our Survivors Have Paid Enough series. This is episode 8 of the series, where we explore eight areas of health and dive into how survivors of sexual violence have all areas of their lives impacted by the trauma they’ve experienced.

We started this series by exploring how mental health is affected by sexual violence and taking a deep dive into PTSD. We then began unpacking emotional health and what it looks like to field big emotions and practice good emotional hygiene.

For this episode, we are exploring how our relationships have been impacted by surviving sexual violence. We are going to look at how survivors end up in a situation where they don’t have many (or any) healthy relationships, the feelings of isolation, and how to tell if a person or a community is safe. 

November 2024 audio newsletter

October 2024 newsletter

This is episode 7 of the Survivors Have Paid Enough series, where we explore eight areas of health and dive into how survivors of sexual violence have all areas of their lives impacted by the trauma they’ve experienced. For this episode, we are taking some time exploring what good emotional hygiene looks like and how to build emotional resilience.

September 2024 audion newsletter

August 2024 Audio Newslette

This is episode 6 of the Survivors Have Paid Enough series, where we explore eight areas of health and dive into how survivors of sexual violence have all areas of their lives impacted by the trauma they’ve experienced. For this episode, we are taking some time exploring the big emotions that many survivors experience, specifically anger, shame, and grief, and learn what it looks like to sit with these emotional experiences. 

July 2024 newsletter

June 2024 audio newsletter

This is episode 5 of the Survivors Have Paid Enough series, where we explore eight areas of health and dive into how survivors of sexual violence have all areas of their lives impacted by the trauma they’ve experienced. 

For today’s episode, we are going to explore how our emotional health is impacted by surviving sexual violence. We are looking into how the emotional window of tolerance almost completely disappears and how our ability to understand and express emotions gets limited after surviving sexual violence.