Accelerating Healing And Growth By Integrating Touch Into Online Sessions With Joan Brooks, CRS

The words “touch” and “online” might sound like two very incompatible terms for obvious reasons. They may not be that incompatible, though, as this episode shows. Are you a healer or bodyworker? Has your business been affected by the pandemic?

It turns out you do not have to give up your purpose or passion for serving. Join Debra Graugnard in this interview with Joan Brooks, CRS (Certified Rubenfeld Synergist), as she talks about how to integrate touch and dialog into online sessions to accelerate your clients’ growth. Joan serves as Training Director and Faculty at Rubenfeld Synergy Training Institute.

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Accelerating Healing And Growth By Integrating Touch Into Online Sessions With Joan Brooks, CRS

I’m excited to be here with Joan Brooks. Before I get into all the details about her qualifications and everything, I want to tell you why I love her. You probably don’t even realize this. I don’t know if I shared it with you before.

She’s one of the co-authors of the While We Were Silent book. She is a beautiful support to women, especially women survivors who have been through trauma and abuse. What I love about Joan is she does not pull any punches.

You see that beautiful laughter and smile that she has. She shows up as a strong presence with no apologies, no game-playing, no nothing. We’re here to take back our power. We are here to be empowered. We are here to pretend that power was never even freaking taken away.

We are here in all of our glory, beauty, strength and everything that we have to give to the world. We shine and we are. One of the things in the While We Were Silent group or in her chapter in that book and in that interview is that she was very clear about noticing our language.

I was writing an article. I started noticing how I was saying all of these things about this has happened to so and so. Joan likes to say that instead of saying, “I was raped,” and think about where the blame lands and points the finger at those of us who have had these traumas. We are still blaming ourselves as if we did something wrong.

She likes to put it back onto the person who was the perpetrator who did it. I don’t want to put it on, “I was raped.” I want to put it on, “He raped me. He raped her.” It’s not so subtle thing when you think about how we do it, how our language points fingers at victims over and over again.

The article I was writing was about climate change and about the harm done to the earth by our human choices. I was like, “Let’s take it off the poor earth and say, ‘Humans, we have to stop doing this. We are doing this and we have to stop.’”

You have had an influence over me for the last few years in a very strong way. I carried that with me. It’s very empowering. It’s honest and truthful. It’s no more playing games and no more pulling punches. Here we are. Thank you for that.

Thank you, Debra. I hope that people are tuning in and even if you want to put in chat or the Facebook comment one thing that you might have said like, “This happened to me. I was,” as if nobody else was involved.

If you want to put one thing, it doesn’t have to be the most horrible thing that ever happened to you, but to phrase it in a way that puts the shame and the blame right where it belongs, on that person and not on us. That puts the responsibility where it belongs not on us. It wasn’t our fault.

I’ll give you an example. I’m at my sister’s house in West Virginia. When I was driving, a car cut me off and I had to swerve. When I was telling someone about it, I said, “I had to swerve and I was scared to death.” The part I left off was that the driver of a car cut me off and forced me onto the berm. That was simple, not a big one and yet, I was saying it as if it was all me.

We’re not alone in this world. One of the things that our personal development and healing world likes to do is to say that it’s not okay to be a victim, but let’s be honest. There is a phase in everyone’s life where you do not have control and you are a victim. Do we want to stay in that place forever? That’s where the personal development says, “Let’s reclaim power from there.”

At some point, we do have to admit that “I was a victim at this point in time” and that’s okay to say that. I don’t have to pretend that I wasn’t a victim and I wasn’t hurt. Somehow owning that gives movement to that energy that has been stuck like this. It’s not okay to be a victim. It’s not okay to say that I was hurt.

For our audience, what does it feel like in your body for you to say to yourself, “My father did this?” “The student attacked, raised scissors to strike me.” Someone is saying that it helped when you said that many people belong in jail because of what they did to me. My ex mentally abused me. That happened.

I get where it’s coming from. It’s a disservice when there’s like, “Don’t think like a victim. You’re just a victim. Yeah, that happened to you, but you’re not a victim.” We were. When those things happened, most of us were young. Most of us were children or young.

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Even if you were an adult and married, we’re raised as women. We’re raised as females to think that’s okay and that’s what we deserve. I want to repeat what Debra said. When I work with clients, it’s important for me and for them that they get what was done to them or what happened to them rather than, “I have to get past this. Somehow, it was my fault.”

Let me tell you all the wonderful things about Joan. She is a certified Rubenfeld synergist. She serves as Training Director and faculty at the Rubenfeld Synergy Training institute. Joan is a body, wisdom and trauma healing master.

Her mission is to help women stop blaming themselves for something they didn’t do, so that they can trust themselves and others set boundaries and speak their truth, perhaps for the first time ever. With eight years of training and many 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 can change the world. She was a co-author and contributor in the While We Were Silent project.

Joan has been a support to our online Facebook community for the past few years. Thank you, Joan. Welcome. The question that I like to start with is, if you don’t mind sharing a little bit about your story, a little bit about your journey and how you got to be the powerful healer and teacher that you are, and the incredible rock of support and inspiration.

Thank you. I was not always this way. I was raised with a lot of trauma. I had a lot of trauma. Later in life, I don’t know how I survived it honestly. I know that there was some part of me that could not be killed. I had a lot of wounding. I was raped three times by three different men. As a result of one rape, I became pregnant.

My mother was an alcoholic for most of my life. She passed already. I had a lot of trauma. I had a lot of wounding. I mostly took it out on my kids. I had three kids by the time I was nineteen. One is the result of a rape.

I entered Al-Anon. I was maybe twenty something. That saved my life. It showed me in time, not right away, that my life didn’t have to be this way. I was living in hell. I had a good job. I was one of those luckier people that managed to thrive while personally dying professionally.

I drive from work every day, crying my eyes out. I don’t know how I’m going to get through this day, this weekend or this week. I get to work. I would be smiles, competent and effective. I’d get in the car and I would cry.

By this time, my kids were getting older. My oldest daughter was hell on wheels. In Al-Anon, I learned through the wonderful people who shared that room with me, those tables with me, that my life did not have to be this way. My life did not have to be one constant struggle, heartache, feeling guilt and shame because of the way I was treating my kids.

That’s still tender for me. In time, I was hired as an air traffic controller and started my own healing journey. Through Al-Anon, that was the flavor. That was the place I got hope. That was a place that I saw it doesn’t have to be this way. Maybe there is hope for me. Maybe I’m not hopeless.

I started on my own healing journey. As I continued on that healing journey, at some point, I was promoted and moved to Seattle. In Seattle, I belong to a healing circle. Every week, we would meet and people would come in and show us the healing modalities that they used. I would often see them as a client.

In time, I knew that I wanted to be in the healing arts. I’m going to put it this way. I didn’t give a flying fuck about flying. I didn’t like to fly. I made a lot of money and it was a prestigious job. I had great benefits. It was so murdering to me the work in that environment.

In time, I moved to Washington DC. I worked in FAA Headquarters. At that time, I went to a Common Boundaries Conference and I attended a workshop that was given by Ilana Rubenfeld. I knew I wanted to get into healing arts. I knew whatever I did had to combine, touch and talk.

In the first 15, 20 minutes, she said, “I call my work The Listening Hand.” I knew at that moment that was the work I would do the rest of my life. At the end of that day long workshop, I knew that I would teach this work. I quit a six-figure job and here I am.

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Thank you for taking that huge giant leap that you took. I know that a lot of hearts have been touched. A lot of lives have been transformed because of that courageous leap.

My life has been transformed from that person who raged at home. At work, nobody knew what was happening. Nobody knew what my real life was like.

That’s so powerful what you said something to the effect of professionally thriving and personally dying. It happens more than we’ve realized with people. Professionally kicking butt and personally dying inside.

I love what you shared about going to the Al-Anon meeting also. It’s an incredibly powerful resource. Thank goodness for that. It’s a huge one. As you then got your download or your knowing that you are going to teach Rubenfeld Synergy, can you tell us if there was one turning point in your journey where you went from primarily?

We’re always both healers and healies. We’re always both no matter where we are. Was there a turning point when you went from primarily healey to primarily healer or you knew that you had reached that place where you knew you were going to be okay and you had something to give or you could start giving?

I don’t think I ever thought of it. I was thinking, knowing I was going to be okay. It was when I lived in Seattle and I was part of that healing circle. My life was getting better. I was seeing, meeting and knowing people who are both healer and healey.

I’ve always loved and believed in women. I believed in who we are, what we can do in the world, and also how we have been squashed in silence. Someone said women are taught to be silent. I don’t know that I have a clear cut unique moment or turning point.

The image I have is I almost turned the ship around. You don’t do that on a dime. Somehow, I turned it around from, “I’m never going to survive. I don’t know if I’m going to make it through this week,” to “I know I can help other women find their strength, their power, their core.”

There is a comment that says females are taught by society to remain silent. As we remain silent about our struggles, abuse, trials, there’s a lot that happens. Joan, do you want to respond to that and give any words of wisdom you have about our silence as women and overcoming or breaking through the silence.

I love the word breaking through the silence. The book is titled While We Were Silent. I say while we were silenced. They silenced us. Women, females, girls are not born not being able to speak up. If you go to a kindergarten classroom and you say, “How many of you can paint?” Everybody. How many of you can sing? Everybody. How many of you can dance? Everybody.

If you go to a fourth-grade classroom, “How many of you can paint, sing, dance?” Even more for women, even more for the girls. If I could say one thing is, I found my voice. I’m not saying I wasn’t consciously doing this. I found my voice. I used it and I hope I always continue to use it to advocate for women, for people of color, and for the oppressed groups.

Another comment says, “Females are taught by society to remain silent. It’s also taught about not loving ourselves.” Another says, “Females don’t matter, centuries old. My mother helped me find my voice. She showed me how to rock the boat.” Good for you and kudos for your mom.

Joan, I want us to be sure that we get to the demo. I don’t want to rush you to it. Is there anything else you want to say about that owning your voice, speaking out, and reclaiming our truth as women because all of these things are lies. How is it that we go from me to silent to no response, what happens? Insights on that?

There’s a term in psychology called overdetermined. If something is overdetermined, it means there are many things that have led to that. It happens to boys too. It happens to girls differently. Boys are still around to be rambunctious, smart and say out the answers. They’re called on boys than girls. They’re encouraged to go into the smart subjects of study. Girls are discouraged.

How we get silenced is overdetermined. There’s the familiar. There are our families. Our families silence us, especially if there are boys and girls. The girls will often. I don’t want to say always, there’s nothing always. As a general rule, either there will be more expected of them or less expected of them. Our families and our societies. Let’s be clear, sexism, misogyny is rampant in our culture.

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Look what happened to Hillary Clinton in 2016. Should you have any doubt about that? It’s our families, our communities, our culture, the church, whatever your religious affiliation is. Bless you, whatever you believe. The church has taught us that women are demons, are to be subjugated. That we’re dangerous. The body is dangerous. The body is associated with female.

The mind is male, masculine. The body is female. Why we’re silenced and how we’re silenced is overdetermined. It comes from every angle, every aspect of our lives. There’s a book called The Politics of Trauma, Staci Haines. It’s an outstanding book that talks about the multifaceted ways that trauma happens.

Reclaiming your voice. Would you like to make your demo session about reclaiming voice, reclaiming power?

That would be lovely. I would like that. I’m going to offer a free gift at the end. I wanted to tie in the free gift a little bit if I may. I was asked to do a webinar for members of the United States Association of Body Psychotherapy.

I ended up doing a webinar on May 7th. Most places are still closed down. We’re still in quarantine. I decide to do the webinar. Let me say first for those of you who don’t know, in my work with clients in Rubenfeld Synergy and there are several Rubenfeld synergists on here I want to add.

You’ve got quite a fan club. Let me read a couple of these. “Joan taught me about my birth rights. Joan taught me to own my leadership.” This are different people saying this. You’ve got a beautiful fan club here.

The words we use are respectful, listening, touch and movement. I listen with my hands. I listen with my ears, with my eyes, with my whole body. I listen with my hands because touch is a viable form of communication, two-way nonverbal communication. As I prepared for this webinar, what I was going to do the webinar was no longer relevant.

I’m still not seeing my clients in person. I wanted to look at, “How could I talk about translating, listening, respectful touch, and what I call body dialogue?” It’s different than the talk you and I are doing, Debra. How could I translate that to online sessions?

That is what my webinar was about. That is what my free gift is about. It’s about integrating touch and dialogue into online sessions. It’s an eBooklet. For those of you who are not practitioners, you might be saying, “Why do I want this?” You can also integrate those exact practices into work with yourself.

You can use those practices to make contact and to listen to the deep healing wisdom of your body. Our bodies are our best resource. With that, I wanted to give people an idea of why I was going to be offering their free gift and how it’s going to be related to what we’re going to be doing. I’m also going to give you a way to get in touch with me. Debra and I will be doing a demo session. It will be a real session, but it won’t be a full session like I would do with a client.

How long is a full session with a client usually?

About an hour. I’m inviting the audience to follow along and notice what you experienced in your body. Is there anything more before we begin?

I’m ready. Any questions that want to come up, we’ll open up for people to put questions about Rubenfeld Synergy, about the process or whatever, as we come through the demo. I love being the demo. Everybody, you’re also the demo.

Let’s begin, Debra. For the purposes of our audience, talk a little bit out loud about what I’m doing that I probably wouldn’t do with a client. Would that be okay?

That is totally okay.

I’m looking at you. I’m coming more and more into my body. My power of presence is in my pelvis. I’m moving into my pelvis so that I can be fully present with you.

I teach that too. There were a couple of people who have finished a class with me, where we focused on that power of presence.

You had said, Debra, maybe we could make this about finding our voice. I’m trying to remember back to exactly what you said. As you for yourself, start to become aware of your body. I see you softly closing your eyes and starting to move in. I’m going to make a statement. I’d like you to notice what you feel in your body or what you notice in your body. I invite others to do this. When I say, “Debra, find your voice.” What happens in your body?

I feel heat and warmth. If my voice comes from here, that also felt like an uncomfortable, like a bubble of air coming up through my throat.

Would you be willing to place your hand softly on your chest where you felt that warmth? I heard the warmth and also the bubble of air. As you have your hand here, what do you notice? Physical sensations or it could be an image or sound.

The relaxation that’s coming into the chest. There’s a softening there and almost like a relaxing into myself and quiet for me. This is enlightening because here, my voice started to crack a little. I feel like I connect with my heart to speak from my heart. When I do that, I go more inward into a quiet space instead of coming out into a vocal. It’s almost a forced vocalization and that of being in my heart. I’m present with my expression.

I’m with this idea of you said softening into, relaxing into, and you could also hear your voice cracking. I could hear your voice cracking. There was this bubble of air. When you come into your heart to speak, what happens as it starts to move up and you may notice something now? What happens as you start to speak?

It’s almost like this shuts off and I disappear into myself.

What do you see as you look at yourself?

I see my head forward and my chest way back. It’s like there’s a disconnect. I have to force the path out.

It looks like a lot of work. This felt easy and soft. I’m going to invite you to keep one hand on your chest and put one hand very softly. The touch I’m talking about is this soft, full contact. I’m not putting any pressure. I’m not putting any weight. Making soft contact as you can. What do you notice in your throat or your neck as you make contact there?

I notice a lot of energy moving between my heart center and my throat. The connection is made. The energy is pouring out. I’m not aware of the nature of it or the voices or pictures of beliefs or anything behind it. I feel a lot of energy moving.

There’s a lot of energy moving between your heart and throat. Is it all the way through or does it get stopped somewhere?

I feel like there’s a lot that’s moving like up and out.

Is there a sound that would come with that? There’s no forcing. It could be energy.

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That was like wanting to go sideways here. I didn’t want to go straight. That sound was like wanting to make a turn to like a block over here on the side.

It sounds starting but getting blocked and moving over. Tell me if this is accurate or not, not being able to come fully up and out.

It comes to a certain point and then it wants to go sideways. The block is over here.

The block is on the other side. Would you gently as you can make contact with that head set? No pressure, no weight. I am with you as you are right now. That’s the message. What do you notice?

There’s a lot of energy moving out of this whole jawline here. This part of my throat and my upper part of my shoulder here and my shoulders relaxing. It’s letting go of a lot of tension.

As that movement is happening? What’s allowing that movement to happen? What’s helping it or allowing that movement? This is so you can be aware.

Bringing attention there, bringing focus there. It’s like electrical circuitry is opening up the flow.

That often happens bringing awareness and paying attention.

The touch completes the energetic circuitry.

One last time, would you see if there’s a sound or a word that wants to come up from the heart and be expressed?

It’s primal.

Is that coming from lower in your body? I’m curious.

It feels like it’s coming at least through here. I’m curving in. Maybe my belly is coming up through the vocal cord like a primal pre-verbal. I’m going to put one on my belly and one here. That’s opening up from behind this other shoulder too.

You can exaggerate whatever’s with you right now, whatever sound. Even let your mouth. I see your teeth, your mouth.

That felt good.

Tell me, what did good feel like in your body?

It felt like it freed up my low belly to speak. Do you feel the difference? It gives voice to my belly. I want to do it again. Can I do it again? If you’re tuning in, please join in with whatever sounds you’re making. I hope you’re following along.

That feels good. The belly is being freed up. It is like a primordial, pre-verbal, infancy, I don’t know which, but like a silencing from way back then. It’s probably our collective of being silenced over so many centuries of coming in, opening up, giving voice and giving a passageway for that voice to move through my body. It feels like one complete passageway now. Not this.

Debra, thank you.

Thank you, Joan.

For me, you were powerful before. Now when you spoke, I was like, “This is a woman I want on my side. This is the woman I want on my team. This is the woman I want with me when I’m going to kick ass.”

I’d love to be there with you because I want you on my team when I’m going to kick ass too.

For me, this is what I call my wild and dark core. The part that I believed couldn’t be killed and yet had to go into deep hiding. As that gets freer and freer in me, I have more of me available, more of my magnificence, my wisdom, my brilliance, my intelligence, my deep ancient knowing I have more of that available to me.

It is ancient. I can feel the ancient letting into my whole pelvic bowl and my whole abdominal space and taking up its homestead. The ancient wisdom as homesteading in my pelvis. Welcome for you.

Welcome ancient wisdom. Come back home. Do try this at home. These are techniques that you can use with yourself. Debra and I both need a moment to shift. I know I do.

I don’t want to come out of this but I’m with you.

Stay there.

This is integrated now. I feel like I’m not coming out of this. That’s here. I’m here. We’re here together.

What I’d like to ask, if you followed along or even if you didn’t, what did you feel in your body? As Debra went through this as, as you witnessed her, what did you experience in your body? The way you’re holding your body is different.

I feel that. I’ll read a message, “This was happening during the session. It touches valuable and important for connecting. I loved Debra’s awareness. The touch completes the energetic circuitry. That’s synergy. It sounded great, beautiful. I am clapping.”

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“I can hear the difference to release, giving voice, giving birth, one complete passageway. Thank you, Joan, for totally being with Debra. I love your posture, Debra. I love the connection between Joan and Debra. Feeling the ancient flooding her body. This is so very beautiful. Thank you. Powerful. I love that ancient wisdom. Thank you. You look stronger.”

“I feel stronger. Empowering. I feel more empowered. It’s so powerful to see your powerful voice. Yes. Thank you. More power. Knowing what is available to us. My whole self was almost lifting off the chair with pride and empowerment. I feel tears in my eyes, happy and sad. Sad that female voices are shut down and not honored. Loath is feeling choked up.”

“I see a little impishness in your face, Debra right there with your power. Lots of breath release, yawns, less restrictions in the throat.” Someone is speaking of her own experience when you asked for people to enter in their own experience. That would be her own experience.

“Lots of breath, release yawns and restrictions in the throat. I felt a lot with my chest, heartache, almost like being held down and a constricted throat attention was the key to discover this. There was some relief with the discovery and some soothing.” I experienced that as well. As soon as you bring the attention there, the energy starts to move. The release starts to happen.

The coaching and the guidance from there to connecting with it and move it, move it in a powerful, effective way, which was wonderful. “I felt the strength and wisdom of my body along with the movement of the energy. First, my lower back started getting louder until my voice got stronger. It was like watching you give birth to a part of yourself.”

Yes, it was beautiful. Thank you. On Facebook, it says, “I wanted to honor Debra’s moment. It was very empowering to all. I felt that deep balance in my chest and my throat.” Joan, would you like to say anything from your perspective or teaching moment or if you want to address also anything?

I’m appreciative of all the comments. I felt like everybody was engaged with us and that’s so important. All of it, your awareness of Debra of what was happening between us, I love your observations. Your awareness of what was happening with you. Even when your voice was tightened or constricted, that’s an awareness and an event invitation to be with that.

A couple of things I wanted to say was I didn’t give you, Debra, anything. I didn’t give it to you. This is important. Our clients can think, “Whatever, you did gave this to me,” no. What I helped you to do was discover it to pay attention to it and to allow it to move and evolve in whatever way it did. Whatever you had done in that session would have been good with me.

If we had spent the whole time with a constricted throat, that would have been perfect. I want to say I didn’t give it to you. I don’t believe you thought that. I’m not saying that you thought that, and yet someone could look at this and say, “Somehow, she gave that to her. That’s a thought that people have. I’m going to see someone and they’re going to give me my power. They’re going to give me my voice.” No. I’m going to help you uncover, recover, discover your power, your voice and free it up.

I can honestly say that I feel what has come into my body, whether you gave it or not, you couldn’t possibly take it away. Sometimes that sense of you gave it to me. Therefore, you can take it away. No, this is in me. It’s integrating, it’s anchored and it’s in me.

It’s not about being in session with me. Yes, I helped to facilitate that. Yes, I teach my clients how to use these processes and practices when they’re not in session. Yes, that’s an important piece, but it’s not just when you’re in a session with me. Your access to this ancient wisdom, ancient knowing, that’s not just, that’s yours. You said it beautifully. It’s integrated. It’s in me. It’s not dependent on Joan.

That’s important for people observing because there are subtle ways that can happen that we think, “This only could happen when I’m in session.” It can take time for that to happen. You’re integrating very quickly and not everybody does that. Yet that’s yours. It’s not dependent on me.

On Facebook, it says, “I felt a zero balance between my heart and my throat.” I believe that’s probably referring to zero balancing.

Debra, I don’t know if we have time to ask questions or if I should put the link for my free gift. I’m not sure what you want to do right now.

You gave people a little bit of information. Joan does have a free gift for you. Please download her free gift. Joan, I want to thank you so much for this gift, the gift to me, the gift to the audience and who are also receiving you.

When you request that free gift, it will also tell you how you can get in touch with me.

That takes you to your website. I love both of your pictures that I have of you, that I use for you. They are gorgeous and they both show your vibrance, your power, your joy, your wisdom, and your strength. That all comes through. It all shines.

I greatly appreciate you and what you share every time we get together. I’m sure that’s only the time that you share it. It’s so clear that this is who you are. Thank you so much for being here. Do you have anything else that you want to share with our people as closing words of wisdom?

The name of one of my websites is Your Body Is Your Best Friend. I can leave you with those few words. Your body is your best friend, learn to listen to her.

Thank you so much. With those words of wisdom, we’ll close it up. I do hope you’ll get in touch with Joan. You’ll find this episode as well in on the Joyfully Living Wellness website, the Self Care For The Soul podcast, the Joyfully Living Wellness, Facebook page, and in the Facebook groups as well, Community for Conscious Living, While We Were Silent.

Hopefully, Joan, you’ll share it in your pages as well. Thank you all so much. It’s been lovely and wonderful. We’ll see you again next time.

About Joan Brooks

Joan Brooks, CRS (Certified Rubenfeld Synergist) serves as Training Director and Faculty at Rubenfeld Synergy Training Institute.

Joan 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.

Joan was a co-author and contributor in the While We Were Silent project. She has been a support for our online Facebook community for the past 2 years.

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