Let’s recover together!

Safety planning, body awareness, mental health and well-being support after violence.

This section will soon become an informative list of books, youtube clips, audio and other recommendations to expand your knowledge on healing after violence.

Including:

• The impacts of trauma acute, chronic and complex.

• The impacts of violence: violence has significant physical, psychological, and social impacts on individuals, families, and communities, leading to injuries, chronic health issues, mental health disorders like anxiety and PTSD, and long-term trauma. For children, exposure to violence can result in developmental problems, behavioral issues, and decreased educational and social outcomes that can last into adulthood. On a larger scale, violence can cause homelessness, financial instability, and significant economic costs to society through healthcare, lost productivity, and social services. 

• Somatic supports for healing: including fascia and psychosomatics.

• Self-advocacy and recovery planning

• Navigating systems

• Supporting your Bubs recovery!

• The brain: and the function of the amygdala and polyvagal theory

• Nervous system regulation: fight, flight, fawn, freeze

• Cortisol and your stress response.

• Living a life beyond fight and flight.

• Your body - your autonomy.

• Life after violence - routines, mindfulness, stability and safety: support to maintaining nurturance in the home.

• Self-compassion and no longer blaming yourself for a perpetrators actions.