Rise: Healing From Childhood Sexual Abuse
Welcome to Rise: Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse Podcast. I am your host, Jessica Heil, Registered Psychologist and DBT Certified Clinician. I am also a childhood sexual abuse survivor.
Rise: Healing From Childhood Sexual Abuse
Latest Episodes
We are more than our trauma
This episode explores some of the emotional and cognitive changes that may occur once the perpetrator passes away.
Trauma Drive
Today's episode is all about trauma drives - the experience of feeling ultra-driven to be productive in order to avoid triggers related to past trauma.
Shame spirals
Today's episode is all about the experience of shame - why feeling shame is common with survivors of childhood sexual abuse, why feeling shame is NOT justified, and what you can do if you can't seem to shake feeling shame.
Fawning - the lesser-known trauma response
Today I describe the fawn response. Fawning is a stress response that is learned as a child that helps us stay safe. Fawning is when we try to please and appease an abusive authority figure in order to try to prevent harm from coming to us.&nbs...