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“When a Reiki practitioner is working through a trauma-informed lens nothing is imposed or guided by the practitioner. Rather the practitioner holds space and allows the client to receive and open up to Reiki. This non-directive approach to healing is very honoring. Instead of a top-down modality where the practitioner is doing something to affect a change, with Reiki the practitioner is simply being present to what is. In that presence alone energy will begin to shift and reorganize according to its own intelligence and ability. Reiki helps clients live in their own vibrational intelligence. As clients come into closer contact with their essence, and that which is non-essential falls away, it helps clients shift their relationship to themselves and to trauma. Trauma can be seen more clearly and has less of a charge or hold on the system. We can’t change the traumatic experience however as we come to know ourselves more deeply we relate to trauma more dynamically. There is more space within us and between us and the trauma. Reiki helps to create this space. It clears up the noise and the clutter so energy can flow freely. This helps dissociate repetitive thought patterns and charged emotional cycles. The practice helps to unhook the energetic charge around emotional neuropeptide formation so there are new possibilities in how the body and brain process emotion. It helps clients drop the addiction to their thoughts and their emotions to experience, more and more, what is and less and less of what once was.” -Greg Wieting | photo: @mollyboha | Greg shared this insight, and much more, in our forthcoming trauma-informed Reiki toolkit! Learn more about Greg’s individual Reiki, Bodytalk and coaching practice as well as his trauma-informed care trainings by visiting our providers page on our website. Link in profile. #saam2018 #30daysofholistichealing #reiki #trauma #sexualassault #survivor #traumainformed #slidingscale #holistichealing #embodiedjustice #energyhealing #mindbodysoul #buildingresilience

"You lack nothing. Use what your ancestors gave you." -G.M. Davis | photo: unknown | #woundedhealer #survivor #trauma #sexualassault #buildingresilience #traumainformed #holistichealing #embodiedjustice #vicarioushealing #intergenerationalhealing #endingviolence

Thank you @karialr for this necessary reminder. You made it here. One day at a time. One moment at a time. One breath at a time. We are on this journey of recovery, repair, resilience and rebound - of life - for the long haul - learning and growing and changing all the whole, so our healing need not be rushed. How we experience today is not how we will experience tomorrow. Be patient. Be gentle. Be honest. Your process is uniquely your own and you get to write it and rewrite it with every passing moment. Seek out your supports in whatever forms feel most accessible on any given day. Even the smallest act of kindness towards yourself can make a difference. Give yourself permission to feel what you feel. No feeling is final. #trauma #sexualassault #nonlinearhealing #healingisapractice #embodiedhealing #holistichealing #embodiedjustice #grace

Today we celebrate our 5 year anniversary! Thank you to our 100+ healing arts and health + wellness practitioners, located across the U.S. and Canada, for your commitment to serving the sexual assault survivor population with expertise, grace and compassion. Thank you to our supporters and donors who believe that the time to center and prioritize survivors' healing - healing of their bodies, minds and souls - is now. Thank you to friends and family who have offered emotional and energetic support to this massive undertaking to build a trusted network of sliding-scale, trauma-informed, holistic healing arts professionals - giving survivors tools and resources that will lead them towards their own innate resilience. Thank you to all the other anti-violence, trauma healing and social justice organizations, movements and mentors for teaching, collaborating and inspiring us to recognize the urgency and believe in the possibility of transforming our society. Thank you to our board members, advisory council and volunteers for their enthusiasm, creativity and faith in our capacity to create our own unique path within this movement, and for lovingly tending to our garden of ideas, dreams, projects and aspirations for where and how our mission and vision may organically grow. Thank you most of all to the survivors of sexual violence and trauma who remind us that healing is not only possible, but truly, healing is every person's birthright; survivors' whose struggles, vulnerability and strength both fuels and humbles us every single day. #thebreathenetwork #buildingresilience #embodiedhealing #holistichealing #trauma #traumainformed #traumaresilience #embodiedjustice #mindbodysoul #survivor #sexualassault #sexualabuse #sexualviolence #socialjustice #socialchange #transformingtrauma #survivorcentered #survivorlead #nonprofit #anniversary #buildingresilience #buildingcommunity #buildingamovement #justbreathe

We are excited to share that our founder @mollyboha is co-authoring a book, Healing Trauma with the Body, with @michaelstoneteaching and will be published by @shambhala_publications in 2018! Michael and Molly have collaborated over the last few years, exploring the questions, processes and complexities of how their own organisms have responded to trauma and the different paths and perspectives they've adopted to work gently, intentionally and patiently with the nonlinear and ever-evolving process of healing. They are eager to share another lens - among many - on practices and concepts that have fortified their journeys and informed their work with trauma survivors through the contemplative practices of yoga, meditation and mindfulness. We look forward to this book reaching sexual assault and trauma survivors with empowering information about how the body stores trauma and can simultaneously be one of our best tools for its transformation, normalizing the vast range of physiological responses to trauma, trusting one's own healing path and embodied wisdom, identifying inner resources and strengths through trauma healing work and remembering survivors are not alone in this journey. How we go about surviving, finding hope after hope is lost, remembering in the midst of chaos that no feeling is final, how we recognize and harness the connection between our individual healing and that of the collective - this is our resilience, this is innate within all of us and this is something to celebrate, search for, savor and share about widely! This book endeavors, among many things, to demonstrate how all of us have the capacity to encompass the tenderness of our wounds alongside the pulsing movements of our healing, and how a somatic, body-inclusive lens on trauma healing can nurture that possibility. Stay tuned for more updates! | photo: David Guttenfelder @dguttenfelder | #trauma #sexualassault #embodiedhealing #embodiedjustice #holistichealing #healingisapractice #traumaresilience #meditation #yoga #mindfulness #mindbodysoul #healingtraumawiththebody #survivor

Beautiful, trauma-informed, Healing Rights shared by @nalgonapositivitypride. 🦋 #survivor #trauma #sexualassault #holistichealing #embodiedjustice #traumainformed #traumaresilience #healingrights #survivorcentered

"As a survivor of sexual assault, I didn’t know how to respond. I knew deep down that I wasn’t going to find my answer by playing small or hiding...Hiking this trail could enable me to be a part of my community and a part of the resistance in a way that my current job could never offer." -Stacy Kellogg | We are grateful and in awe of our board member, @stacyrayeofsunshine who is embarking on a 2600 mile trek along the Pacific Crest Trail this April to deepen her own healing and to support access to holistic healing resources for survivors of sexual assault. Stacy will be fundraising for @thebreathenetwork along her 5 month journey and sharing her experience with us via her blog and Instagram page. Learn more about Stacy and support her fundraising goal by visiting her blog page. Link in profile. #survivor #sexualassault #holistichealing #embodiedjustice #wildernesstherapy #natureisaresource #mindbodysoul #pacificcresttrail #pct #nonprofit #fundraiser

“Creativity is a core part of the self. Tapping into our creative source can help us make sense of what we may not be able to understand cognitively and communicate what we may not be able to say verbally. The act of creating art can be both cathartic and grounding, and reflecting on the art process and product can lead to significant insight that is often difficult to verbalize. Since art making can also evoke insecurities and challenges, my role as an art therapist is to cultivate a safe, supportive, non-judgmental space for you to engage in new forms of expression and help guide reflection of your work.” -Kristina Vogt | Art: "Remember to Exhale" by @bonniedorgelo | On this second day of SAAM, we are featuring Art Therapy. If you are interested in learning basic principles and approaches of art therapy, understanding the benefits of connecting to the creative source as a form of trauma recovery, and gaining tools to engage in basic art activities as a form of expression, connection, stress reduction, and self-reflection, please consider listening to the 30 minute teleseminar, Artful Healing: Understanding Art Therapy & Trauma Teleseminar, that Kristina facilitated for our community. Link in profile. #saam2017 #30DaysofHolisticHealing #arttherapy #sexualassault #survivor #traumaresilience #holistichealing #embodiedjustice #mindbodysoul #artistherapy