Working With Your Own Body To Find Transformational Healing with Joan Brooks

Seeking her own healing from past traumas as well as issues of abandonment made Joan Brooks realize she wanted to get into the healing arts. Joan is a training director of the Rubenfeld Synergy Training Program of Philadelphia, a practitioner of Rubenfeld Synergy, and a body wisdom and trauma healing master. She’s an amazing woman with an incredible heart and an incredible passion for helping others to heal with eight years of training and almost twenty years of experience working with the person’s own body to find transformational healing.

Joan offers a reality check on the language we use to describe sexual assault and how important it is for victims of assault to use the proper phrases when talking about their situations. Joan shares her story of what was most important and impactful for her healing. She says when women take their rightful place in the world, they change the world.

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This interview is from the While We Were Silent series. Our guest is Joan Brooks. Joan is Training Director of the Rubenfeld Synergy training program of Philadelphia. She’s a practitioner of Rubenfeld synergy. She’s a body wisdom and trauma healing master. I absolutely love doing this interview with Joan. Joan, among many things, gives us a reality check on the language we use to describe sexual assault and how important it is for victims of assault to use the proper phrases when talking about their situations. Joan shares her story of what was most important and impactful for her healing. One of my favorite quotes from Joan in this interview is, “When women take their rightful place in the world, they change the world.” I do hope you’ll enjoy this interview with Joan. Thanks so much.

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Working With Your Own Body To Find Transformational Healing with Joan Brooks

Our guest is Joan Brooks. Welcome, Joan.

Thank you, Debra. I am honored to be a part of this project. This speaks very closely to my heart. Thank you for including me.

Thank you, Joan. I am honored that you have chosen to join us for this. I was referred to Joan by a very close friend, someone I’ve known for a long time, who speaks very highly of Joan and in the little bit of time that I’ve had to get to know her, I think that she exceeds the great introduction that was given when I was introduced to her. She’s an amazing and beautiful woman with an incredible heart and an incredible passion for helping others to heal. I’ll give you a little bit about Joan’s background. Joan Brooks is a body wisdom and trauma healing master. Her mission is to help women stop blaming themselves for something they didn’t do so they can trust themselves and others. Set boundaries, and speak their truth, perhaps for the first time ever.

With eight years of training and almost twenty years of experience, Joan uses the Rubenfeld Synergy method, working with the person’s own body to find transformational healing. Joan knows from personal experience and working with her clients, that when women heal from sexual trauma, they can stand fully in their power and take their rightful place in the world. When women take their rightful place in the world, they change the world. I love the way that you say this, Joan. I greatly appreciate what you bring here. Joan, can you tell us a little bit more about your story and how it led you to do what you’re doing to help others?

I’d be happy to. Before I became a Rubenfeld Synergist, that’s my title, Certified Rubenfeld Synergist, I was an Air Traffic Controller. My last position, I was a manager of an air traffic control facility in Buffalo, New York. When I was living in Seattle for four years, I was part of a healing circle. I had been seeking my own healing from past traumas, sexual and other traumas as well as issues of abandonment. All those things that most of us have been through. I was seeking my own healing, and as part of that I joined a healing circle.

We met every Thursday, and someone would show us what modality they practiced, and I would often go see them. At some point, Debra, I realized that I wanted to get into the healing arts. I wanted to get into the healing profession. I made a lot of money and I had a lot of prestige as an Air Traffic Controller but it wasn’t my soul’s calling. It wasn’t why I was here on this Earth, and I knew that. I searched for a couple of years for a healing modality that I knew had to combine both touch and talk.

That when I would experience a healing modality that just used touch, it wasn’t enough. I had been in talk therapy for years. While it was helpful, it didn’t ever get to the root cause. It didn’t ever get to the root trauma. I really needed something that married both. I went to the Common Boundaries conference in DC. At this time, I was working at FAA Headquarters in Washington, DC. I went to the Common Boundaries Conference, I didn’t know any of the presenters.

Ilana Rubenfeld, in the write-up for her workshop, said, “Emotions are stored in the body,” and I knew that was true because I could see them. I went to her workshop, she called her work “The Listening Hand.” Within moments, I knew that this was the work that I’d do the rest of my life. By the end of that day-long workshop, I knew that I would teach this work, and I did. I trained in the work for four years. I did a four-year certification training program. Even before I graduated, I quit my job with the FAA, on a huge leap of faith, because I made a lot of money and I had great benefits. I went down to no salary, and no insurance, and moved back to West Virginia and I opened a practice.

I have done Rubenfeld Synergy exclusively since then. I’ve done four years of certification training, four years as a teaching intern, I did the last four-year program as faculty. Then I’ve been on faculty ever since and I’m actually going to be the training director for the next certification training program. The program that will certify people in Rubenfeld Synergy.

First, thank you for taking that huge leap of faith that you took. Because, just think of all of the people who have received so much through your help and your training. I say that because, for all of us who can sit in that place of knowing that there’s more and knowing that you’ve got so much inside of you that can help yourself and others and yet there is that fear. That fear that comes from our past, and our experiences, and all the other things.

That’s part of what we’re going to talk about in While We Were Silent. What happens inside when we’re keeping all of this stuff inside? We’ve got to know the possibilities that are there when we have these breakthroughs. You’re a beautiful example of that. I thank you for having that courage, taking that leap, and for all the people you’ve helped.

Thank you. I’m really loving you saying it that way. I’ve never had it put that way or thought about it that way. That breakthrough came because of the healing that I experienced through Rubenfeld Synergy.

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Would you be willing to share with us a little bit about your personal story, and your breakthrough, how that came about?

My grandfather, when I was young, exposed himself to my sister and I, and wanted us to touch him. We didn’t, but we also never told anybody about it. When I was a young teenager, he solicited sex from me. He would offer to pay me if I would have sex with him. It didn’t happen. I wouldn’t do it, but I never told anybody about it until I was much, much older. I’m going to say “never,” because I have. At that time, I never told anybody about it. I’ve been raped three times by three different men. I’ve gotten pregnant as a result of that rape. I want to say just a bit about language. I say, I have been raped. Three different men raped me. They did it.

Our language excludes them, like the men aren’t part of it any more. Like, I was raped, instead of, three men raped me, someone raped me. It’s really important. I’m working to change that language to put the blame where it belongs. As a result of one of those rapes, I became pregnant. I won’t go too far into it, we don’t have enough time and it’s not the right place. I’ve also been sexually harassed at work. I’ve worked in a male-dominated field, full of men who thought nothing of telling dirty jokes and making degrading remarks about women. “Locker room talk,” as our president likes to call it.

I have been sexually harassed. I don’t know a woman alive, Debra, who hasn’t, some more than others. Not everybody has been physically raped and yet, I don’t know a woman alive who hasn’t been sexually degraded. Who hasn’t had a man look at her breasts when he was talking to her. Who hasn’t been subjected to “Locker room talk” and dirty jokes and degrading remarks about women. Just the way also that we’re even portrayed in the media, advertising, movie and TV as literally nothing but sex objects.

It’s what I call, “We’re nothing more than a pair of tits and a piece of ass,” to be very cruel, but real about it. It is embedded in the culture. It is insidious and it’s the water we swim in and don’t even know we’re in it. Although, that is changing. I’ve had a lot of sexual trauma in my life. Part of my training was that I had to have my own personal sessions. That was a requirement for my certification training with Rubenfeld Synergy.

I had done years of talk therapy. I had gone to many holistic practitioners, all of them helpful in some ways. None of them actually healing the trauma in my body. It wasn’t until I went to a Rubenfeld Synergist that I began to really be able to express, not just verbally but through my body, what had happened to me, what I had experienced. I started to really see how it had impacted my life. Through my sessions, through the deep, transformational healing of healing the trauma in my body. Then, I stopped being silent. I started being able to speak my truth. I started being able to know my truth. I didn’t even know my truth. I didn’t know what was true for me.

I didn’t trust, if my gut said “This might be dangerous,” I didn’t trust that. I started to be able to read, hear and listen to those messages from my body, and to actually trust them that that’s my truth. No matter what anybody else said, that that’s what was true for me. I could start to speak out, I could start to stand up for myself. I could start to take a stand for me. I could take a stand for someone else over here, but I couldn’t take a stand for me. I started to have my feet under me, my legs under me, so that I could take a stand. Debra, perhaps most importantly, I could take my rightful place in the world. Not the place I had been delegated to, but my rightful place.

Thank you for being the example of having that breakthrough and speaking up and putting things into a clear perspective. As you know, the title of this series is While We Were Silent. With so many women coming forward in the media all of a sudden in the past few months, there’s been a lot of talk. I’m hearing a lot of people saying, she’s just coming forward now. Why would someone come forward twenty years later?

There must be an ulterior motive. There must be a reason. That it’s just a conspiracy to take this person down, or to do this or that. There’s always that questioning that calls into question the validity of what so many women are coming forth with now. With this explosion in the #MeToo Movement, it really brings it to light that it’s not just the people in the public eye who have somebody to take down.

Most of us don’t have anybody to take down but we still go through the same thing, and we can hold the same thing in for twenty years, 50 years or forever. I want to help people to understand why we can experience such trauma and keep it inside, remain silent after sexual violation. Struggle with whether or not to report an incident, or break through twenty years, 50 years later. What have you noticed with yourself and others that you’ve worked with? What are the reasons that we keep things inside?

There’s a term in psychology that says something is over-determined, which means there are many, many reasons. Even if there weren’t that reason, there’s this, this and this. Why we keep silent and why we have kept silent is really over-determined, because there are many reasons. One is look at how these women are being treated? Look at the way women throughout our history, and before. Our living history, women have been treated when they have spoken up and spoken out.

They have been vilified, they have been shamed, they have been blamed. They’ve said, “She’s just in it for the money,” “She’s just trying to take this guy down.” Just like you were just saying. That’s how we’re kept silenced. Yes, we kept silent, and we were silenced. Women and young girls, and I don’t care how young they are shamed and blamed when men – mostly men, it’s also women – sexually violate them. They are shamed and blamed. We feel shame.

From my own experience, I don’t know that I blamed myself, but I’ve had countless clients who’ve said “I must have done something wrong. I shouldn’t have led him on. I shouldn’t have worn that short dress. I drank too much that night.” Society does that to us, and then we internalize it. We try to find out, how did I cause this? We’re already filled with shame. We’re already blaming ourselves. For children, there’s often the reality that if it’s their father or their step-father, that might be the major provider in the home. How would they survive?

Even if someone says to mom, dad did this or step-dad did that. Don’t tell anyone, because he’ll go to jail, and then what will we do? There’s a very good likelihood that we’re not going to be believed. If we are believed, shamed or blamed. If we’re not shamed and blamed, they may say “You don’t know what happened to Sally when she was seven.” You’re talking about like this is nothing. Minimized, shamed, blamed, and not believed. Often there is no one to tell. There is no trusted family member. There is no trusted teacher or clergy.

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When you live in a world where you hear from your own family. I don’t think is true for me, I don’t want to say this about my family. I know it has been true for many of my clients, where they have heard their family members, their teachers, even their clergies saying, “Well, she just shouldn’t have been there.” Why would they tell them that? They are often told and threatened by the perpetrator, “You can tell, but no one’s going to believe you.” That’s often true, especially for a family member or someone who’s held in high-esteem in the community like a pastor or clergy. No one’s going to believe you.

They’re also often told, “If you tell, I will kill you. I will kill your family. I will kill your pets.” I had a client say to me, and I still feel it even as I’m thinking about it and remembering it, that her perpetrator, the person that violated her, was a close friend of the family. She was often left alone with him. He would say to her, “If you tell, they’re going to throw you out with the trash.” Do you feel the impact? How could she have told with that? She finally told me, and I was the first person she told. She was in her late 30s, early 40s.

No doubt, this happened when she was a child?

She was a child. He was fifteen.

As a child, what do we know? We just believe what we’re told by the authorities in our life. Those who are supposed to be the trusted ones who are caring for us.

Perpetrators have this finely honed sixth sense that knows when a child is particularly vulnerable, because they’re very lonely and wanting attention and affection. They know there’s no one in their family that’s going to back them up. That’s what I mean by over-determined.

I want to just say one thing about the shame. You mentioned the shame. My experience of shame is that it is something that is viscerally felt in the body. That thing that we tend to call shame, is what we do as a reaction to what we feel inside that just feels so icky that it wants to crawl into Never, Neverland and hide, and never be seen again. I think it’s the way that our body talks to us. Our body lets us know when something wrong has just occurred.

Then, our conditioning and our teaching and our culture tells us what to do with that information our body gives us. I’m just wondering if the Rubenfeld Synergy work, and the work that you do in your experience, can give some insight or some help into unlocking that deeply visceral trauma, and the way that it’s held as shame in the body?

That’s literally what I do through Rubenfeld Synergy. It’s in the body. It’s locked deep in the body. I use respectful touch, and by using respectful listening touch. There are a couple of things, Debra. One, it creates a deeper safety and trust than that would be possible with face-to-face. Because touch is a viable form of communication. When I’m touching my client, not only am I listening to her body, she’s listening to me. Not just my words, my words could say something, but she’s listening to my intention.

There’s that energetic exchange that’s true and cannot lie. You cannot lie from touch. I could say with my words, “I really understand how you’ve got in that situation,” but my touch would tell what I was really thinking, if that makes sense. It creates that trust, so that it’s safe enough to open this little door here, and peep inside and say “What’s in here that’s scared and ashamed?” How can we contact that? How can we make friends with that? How can we really listen, even to the shame?

Before we go more into the actual healing, can you just share with us a word or a few sentences about the consequences of living with the shame, the secrecy, the unhealed trauma and all of the other things that go along with this, when we hold it inside for so long over so many years?

This is what I call the aftermath. The aftermath of the sexual violation. The aftermath is what gets added. After math, it’s math; it’s what gets added and what gets subtracted. What gets added is shame, blame, guilt, distrust, a deep sense of not being safe. What gets subtracted is the sense of safety. It’s personal power and autonomy. Sovereignty over the body. Self-confidence, self-esteem, the ability to trust our bodies and ourselves. What gets subtracted is the ability to discern danger. It means that we either see no danger, or everything’s dangerous. There’s danger everywhere. There’s no ability to discern what’s really safe and what’s really not safe.

How I see this rippling out into my life and how I see it rippling out into the lives of my clients is, it affects every aspect. From relationships to self. Self-hatred among women is rampant. I don’t believe I’ve had a client who didn’t hate herself on some level, often unconsciously. That affects her relationship with herself, her ability to be in relationships with anyone. Especially beloveds, especially intimate partners. Their sexuality gets screwed up. It could show up as virginity, an absolute disinterest in sex, to promiscuity.

It shows up in their health and well-being. I would say most diseases and chronic illnesses can be traced to some kind of trauma. I don’t mean just sexual trauma, but definitely sexual trauma. Because it’s what you said, Debra, it’s stored in the body. It’s not just a metaphor that it’s stored in the body; it’s literally stored in the cells of the body. Molecules of Emotion by Candace Pert is a great book about this.

I think of it, and my clients experience it as toxicity. This toxic shame, blame, guilt all those other things get stored in the body and, of course, affect the body. Often, the way that we deal with chronic fear and anxiety, which is the aftermath – that’s what gets added is chronic fear and anxiety – is by holding our breath. Tightening our muscles. All of those ways affect our ability to earn money. If we have feelings of low self-worth, 95% of my clients come in with low self-worth and low self-esteem, it affects their ability to know and believe what they deserve in life, so they settle.

They settle for a partner that’s not that good, but he doesn’t beat me. He does, but he didn’t kill me. I settled for a job that isn’t really the job that I want. This isn’t really my soul’s calling but, it’s a job. I’m making some money. It also affects spiritual development and the ability to live your soul’s life. Mostly we’re operating in a survival mode the whole time. We can’t move beyond survival, until we move beyond survival.

Which means, unlocking the trauma from the body and all of the other. There are so many pieces to that and so many layers. Speaking again from your own experience and your work with clients, when you and your clients do break through that wall of silence and begin that healing journey. What do you see as the greatest opportunity for healing that women can realize that they can find?

I’ll tell you the single most important one for me, and this was my very first tagline, “Come home to yourself.”

When there’s so much trauma in our body, so often we’re not living here. The trauma lives in our body and we do have hard time being at home.

When we come home to ourselves. Two-thirds of our intelligence, not just our wisdom, but our intelligence lives in our body. One-third in the mind, one-third around the heart and one-third around the gut. Two-thirds of our intelligence lives in the body. When we’re here or up here or out there, we’re missing all of this. Coming home to ourselves, we become our best guides. It’s what I spoke about before. I’ve got to know my truth. I’ve got to be able to say, “This is what’s true for me right now.” I’ve got to be able to speak it. My clients speak their truth without apology. How many times have you heard, “I’m sorry but I really disagree with you. I think that I have a different opinion than you do. Let me tell you my opinion.” It’s not to say that was right or wrong or mine was better or not better, but I have a different opinion.

To speak my truth without apology. To step into their full power to take their rightful place in the world. To be able to set boundaries and make them stick. I set tons of boundaries with my kids, but none of them ever stuck. Set boundaries and make them stick. To know what they deserve, like, “This is what I deserve out of life.” I don’t want to settle. I’ve settled most of my life, I don’t settle anymore. This is what I deserve. When you live by your own internal guides, what I call your Internal GPS, then it’s easier to make decisions. Even if it turns out not to be the best decision, it’s like, I have different information now. I can make a different decision. It reduces the self-criticism, the negative self-talk, the “What’s wrong with me? Why am I like this?” It literally frees the soul.

We seem to be going through a huge shift in our collective consciousness, in the masses where women are coming forward en masse and speaking up. Do you have any insights to share about this shift, the changing times, why now, why so many are coming forward, and what that can bring? What that’s bringing into our world now?

The first wave of women who came to speak out against Harvey Weinstein, were mostly pretty powerful, wealthy white women. They had a voice already. They had more of a voice, don’t get me wrong, they didn’t have the same voice as a white male, especially a white wealthy male. They already had a voice and they already had the privilege of speaking. They had some level of safety from which to speak. They started paving the way. I’m eternally grateful to them. They actually saw something happen.

Look at when President Trump was running for office. He had nineteen women speak out about allegations of sexual misconduct of varying degrees. They were all silenced. There may be some that are still continuing silently, I don’t know, but they were silenced largely because they also received threats. Threats to their personal well-being; death threats. Nothing happened, he actually became president.

Harvey Weinstein got removed. Things happened to him. They saw the result of that, and then a band of actresses got together. I forget what they called it. I don’t remember now. Someone, and it wasn’t them, it was actually, I believe a black woman who started #MeToo. She actually started #MeToo some time ago, but she didn’t have a platform. These white, powerful rich women actually had the platform to be heard. I believe I heard that a black woman actually started Me Too some time ago. She didn’t have the platform. What I’m really hopeful about and grateful for, is that these mostly white, mostly rich women, mostly pretty well-known women are paving the way for the rest of us. The ones who aren’t wealthy, don’t have a big platform, aren’t powerful in that well-known public way.

Women of color, poor women, they’re at the bottom of the heap, unfortunately. They’re at the bottom of who’s going to be believed, who’s going to be able to speak out and actually have someone take them seriously. They’re paving the way. The #MeToo exploded because here’s an opportunity to speak up. I understand and honor that some people still felt like they couldn’t speak up, but millions of women did. I don’t know if you remember or if you knew that when that audio tape about Trump saying that he could sexually violate women and get away with it. Someone on Twitter asked the question, “When was the first time you were sexually violated?”

One million women responded to that. She was getting 10,000 tweets an hour in response. Then the #MeToo on Facebook. No, my perpetrators are never going to go to jail but, here’s a platform where I can say, add my voice, that says “Yes, this happened to me,” in as much detail or as little detail, but yes, this happened, #MeToo. What it’s also doing, Debra, is it’s heightening the awareness of people who have been pretty unconscious, and we have mostly been unconscious about this as a society, as a culture.

It’s heightening the awareness of the scope, and breadth and insidiousness of sexual violations, rapes, assaults and harassment that women have lived with all our lives for centuries. It’s not new, it’s been going on for centuries. I believe men, conscious men, men who are wanting to raise their consciousness, are starting to really wake up to that, and to say, “I haven’t done that but somehow, I have allowed that to happen and be okay.” That for me is the real hope. We have a long way to go. It really requires that we remain vigilant. I think what you’re doing is so important. I’m so glad you’re doing this. I hope and I pray and I believe a significant piece of answering the, “Why were we silent?” as well as giving hope to women who have been silent.

Yes, and to those who still are. A huge passion from this is to also bring an understanding to light, to even the conscious men. I said to you when we first talked, this really sparked the need for this. That really lit a fire inside of me when I heard two men who I consider leaders in the personal development world, who I consider conscious men, making a joke about sexual harassment and taking twenty years to come back and take somebody down. I thought, “If they don’t get it, we’ve really got some work to do.”

It’s for all of us to come to an understanding, and to shed some light. Hopefully, to see each other with a little more humanity, and a little more compassion and understanding. Where we can really come together in mutual respect. Our culture is permeated with so many ways of believing and thinking and viewing things. What’s embedded into our own consciousness about what’s okay and what’s not okay.

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There are so many things that we just really haven’t brought to light and given thought to. That’s one of the hopes of this series is to bring more of these things to light, so that the men and the women, the girls and the boys, and everyone, no matter where you fall on any spectrum, can maybe see a little more clearly, and come to a clearer understanding of each other, men and women, mutually. Move forward in a way where we can move forward with a greater respect for each other as human beings, as spiritual beings, as souls on this Earth journey.

As people of dignity who are worthy of honor and respect. Who are worthy of love, who have voices. Who are incredible, who have hearts. Who have creativity. Who have value, have genius. We want to bring all of that out. I so appreciate the work you are doing. What would you tell someone who may be still struggling in silence or any point of their healing path? What would you say to them?

More importantly is, get it out of your system, get it out of your body. Ideally, you would work with a professional. Talk to someone. Ideally, a professional, but even a close, trusted friend who can sit and listen to you, and let you pour you heart out. Let you pour your shame. Let you pour your rage out, without the need to take care of you or fix you but could really hold that space for you so that you can do that. Get a journal, put it on paper. Just pour out your heart, your soul, your mind, your body. Pour it all out on paper. Move it out, dance it out. I had a client of mine say just the other day, that she knows if she hadn’t danced hard to loud music when she was a teenager, she wouldn’t be alive, because that’s how she moved that all of out of her body. As much as she could but she moved it out of her body so it didn’t kill her.

Tell a trusted friend. That someone you trust. Be careful with this as you would your newborn baby. You wouldn’t give your newborn baby to someone you didn’t trust. Give this tender heart, this tender part of you to someone that you trust, who can hold you and hold this tender place. Be really, super compassionate with yourself. If you’re sitting there, “I should have told someone twenty years ago.” Don’t do that. That’s not helping. Be compassionate with yourself. Know that you’re doing the best you can at any moment and know that you’re worth it. You’re worth being heard, you’re worth being seen, you’re worth telling your story. You’re worth healing. You are worth it.

I would like the audience who are resonating with your story, with your modality of healing. With you as a human being and a being of light inside your beautiful body. I’d like for them to know how they can find out more information about you and the resources that you offer. Can you share that?

I have created a free gift for our listeners, and it’s a workbook entitled The Price We Paid for Being Silenced and The Rewards for Speaking Out. They’ll be able to opt-in to that free gift by going to http://YourBodyIsYourBestFriend.com/FreeGift. They can also email me at JoanBrooks@ClearCalmAndConfident.com or they can call me on my phone number, 304-261-1443.

Thank you so much, Joan. I love the title of your book. When you’re facing this wall of silence and fear of the unknown, of ‘what may happen if’. We need that courage and we need to be able to have some glimpse into what’s on the other side, and what’s possible if we can just take that step. I love how your offer is worded, and I can only imagine how it must be crafted, knowing what I know about you. I can’t wait to get it myself.

I thank you for that. I thank you for your offer to people. I thank you for your passion. I thank you for your heart. I thank you for the being that you are. I thank you deeply for being a part of this program and helping to spread the word and to bring healing and lift the consciousness. For all that you do, thank you.

Thank you, Debra. I am honored to be a part of this. Thank you for what you’re doing and making this possible and bringing this out to the world. Thank you so much for including me.

Thank you. I want to thank our audience. Listen to this as many times as you want, share it as far and wide as you’re willing. This is available for all who have the heart, who may be struggling in pain, or may just need a little help understanding what’s been going on in our world. No one needs to be left out. Please share far and wide. Thank you again. If you have any questions, you can contact me, you can contact Joan, you can join our Facebook page, While We Were Silent. We hope to continue this conversation with you. Thanks so much.

About Joan Brooks

Joan Brooks is a Body Wisdom and Trauma Healing Master. Her mission is to help women stop blaming themselves for something they didn’t do, so they can trust themselves and others, set boundaries, and speak their truth, perhaps for the first time ever.

With 8 years of training and almost 20 years of experience, Joan uses the Rubenfeld Synergy Method, working with the person’s own body to find transformational healing.

Joan knows, from personal experience and working with her clients, that when women heal from sexual trauma, they can stand fully in their power and take their rightful place in the world. When women take their rightful place in the world, they change the world.

Find Joan at http://yourbodyisyourbestfriend.com/.

Joan has a free gift for you at http://yourbodyisyourbestfriend.com/freegift