It was incredible to see over fifty educators, doctors, and therapists engaged in the topic of healing sexual trauma. There were lectures, to be sure, but also tantra workshops, breathing exercises, and role plays. Over the weekend, other participants and I learned about different types of trauma and how they affect human sexuality. This AASECT event was focused specifically on sexuality and trauma, entitled: Trauma-Informed Approaches to Sexuality: From Coping to Thriving/New Ways to Work as Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists. Our society often shies away from conversations around sex and sexuality, however, at the recent Winter Institute for the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), healthy sexuality was the central topic of the weekend. The stakes are high, but only because sex can be really, really powerful. Talking about healthy sexuality at the dinner table, or openly on your Facebook page is bound to get you silence, and in some cases, social exclusion. Sex is, for many, both an intriguing and a frightening topic. Perhaps it is because of the fear that sexuality itself is too raw and painful a place to go with a survivor of sexual violence, or perhaps it is because our culture itself has its own deep and unresolved sexual wounds. Yet, one area that is often under-acknowledged in the healing process is sexuality. The goal of healing is ultimately for the survivor to be able to live a normal, happy, and healthy life. The majority of healing methodologies rightly focus on releasing negative emotions, memories, and beliefs that the survivor carries from their past traumatic experiences. No one should have to go through life experiencing the stress and anxiety of experiencing the world as fundamentally unsafe.
Very often trauma recovery focuses on restoring the sexual violence survivor to a baseline of normalcy so that they can make it through the day without being repeatedly re-triggered. Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been most completely invaded and colonized, in our determination to make the bombed & defoliated lands flower again and bear fruit, here where we have been most shamed is one of the most radical and sacred places from which to transform the world.” ~Aurora Levins Morales But at its core is the real fire we are all after, that blazing and untarnished aliveness that lies within everything of value and spirit that we do.
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It is full of dizzying precipices, heady moments of release, crushing assaults of shame. “So why choose to reclaim sex…The path of reclaiming the wounded erotic is neither placid nor boring. Comments Off on Sexual Healing After Trauma Sexual Healing After Trauma
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