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Getting through Father’s Day

June 14, 2019
Family
A cartoon of a woman doing a yoga "boat" pose with a teal background on the image.

What does trauma-informed yoga for survivors look like?

May 21, 2019
Self care

When PTSD and hypervigilance are planning your wedding for you

April 24, 2019
Sex
Alisa and Franklin the dog looking at each other

Living with hypervigilance and catastrophic thinking

March 21, 2019
Self care
Alisa writing at laptop

Strategies for writing while healing from sexual trauma

February 21, 2019
Self care
Alisa Zipursky black and white

With only body memories, do I still have moments of doubt about my childhood sexual abuse?

January 24, 2019
Memory
Surviving R Kelly Lifetime Documentary

R. Kelly and child sex abuse that hides in plain sight

January 11, 2019
Pop culture

Don't remember your sexual trauma? You are super not alone.

December 17, 2018
Memory
photo of sunrise in Shenandoah River Valley

Home for the holidays with trauma in our lives

December 17, 2018
Family
Tarana Burke at Ted

"Me too is a movement, not a moment."

December 1, 2018
Pop culture
silly photo of Alisa and friends

Why I use humor to heal from my childhood sexual abuse

November 29, 2018
Pop culture
Shehariah Johnson of Silence Kills

Building community while healing from intimate partner violence

October 31, 2018
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