Welcome to Start By Listening! We are excited to have you on this journey with us toward healing and transformation.  Start By Listening is a podcast about sexual harm, trauma and advocacy.  We are diving into all things trauma this season and all things on how we begin to heal our lived trauma!  So glad you could join us!

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will never hurt us? Words can cut deep. In this episode,Terri Crowe our advocacy coordinator and "legal advocate with attitude" shares what words you should use and which ones to avoid in regard to sexual harm.

Start By Listening will drop on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month, bringing you an interesting and intriguing look into the work we do, while educating about trauma and healing.  If you would like to reach out and contact Terri or Jennifer, please email us at [email protected].  Finally, a few shout outs.  If you liked our jingle jingle, hop on over to www.uriahwilde.com and talk with Seth Hedges.  He created the beautiful music for our podcast.  Thank you SETH!  Another special thank you to Rodney Newton, he helped us learn how to put this Podcast together and create a beautiful thing.  Thank you RODNEY!!!

Credit goes to the follow awesome resouces! Terri used a lot of wording and summarized much of their content for this episode. :)

King County (WA) Sexual Assault Resource Center

https://www.kcsarc.org/sites/default/files/Words%20Matter_Talking%20about%20Sexual%20Violence.pdf

Veto Violence, Centers for Disease Control

https://vetoviolence.cdc.gov/sites/all/themes/veto_bootstrap/assets/sv-landing/SV-MediaGuide-508c.pdf