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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
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
Ask a Survivor
Mariah Miranda with camera

Through the lens of a survivor

October 18, 2018
Ask a Survivor
Christine Blasey Ford photo from Getty

What Dr. Christine Blasey Ford taught us about the brain, memory and trauma

October 4, 2018
Memory
"I support Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford" buttons

It might feel like a long time ago for Brett Kavanaugh. It doesn’t for us.

September 20, 2018
Pop culture

Yes, survivors can be abusers

September 7, 2018
Pop culture