This time of year can fire difficult emotions for survivors. Each person has their own reasons for feeling stress, but seasonal...

Holiday stress is especially real and palpable for those of us with trauma in our history. For years, I've looked at the holiday season...

Note: You can listen to the "Safe Living Today" podcast episode for this blog post by clicking the audio player below. What fuels sexual...

This is an exciting and hopeful time as people from all over the world are coming forward to bear witness about the abuse they have...

Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad were recently awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. Murad is a Yazidi woman who was sold into sex slavery...

The audio podcast for this blogpost is at the end of the article. October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The scourge of...

Gina Sosa, a former Republican congressional candidate in Florida asked an interesting question live on CNN, in defense of Brett...

“The Tale” is a wrenching new film starring Laura Dern and Ellen Burstyn. Written by director Jennifer Fox about her relationship with a...

The fires in Northern California burned through my community taking many homes and much of our green space. These devastating infernos...

September is National Recovery Month and that is what we are doing - recovering together from sexual abuse. What do we recover? Our deep...

An anecdote from one of my clients: My sweet baby grandson is 15 months old and after honeymooning in Hawaii with his folks and big...

Many of us were shocked last week by the news that Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain had committed suicide. They were two “Beautiful...

The number of reported sexual assaults on airplanes is rising according to the FBI. This increase was highlighted in a recent official,...

In a recent article in ZDNet, a leading technology publication, we see the headline, “US cell carriers are selling access to your...

Today's Self-Care Technique is The Calming Head Hold Technique. Join in with the video below to practice this technique. FREA has created...

Today's Self-Care Technique is The Cook's Hook Up Technique. Join in with the video below to practice this technique. FREA has created a...

Today's Self-Care Technique is The Gamut Point Technique. Join in with the video below to practice this technique. FREA has created a...

Our sister organization, Peaceful Heart, has added music to Tapping. Music is shown to improve our brains and help reduce PTSD and so has...

Why use energy therapies??? Readers might ask “Why consider using an alternative, “unproven” technique like EFT or other energy...

Today's Self-Care Technique is The Blow Out Technique. Join in with the video below to practice this technique. FREA has created a...