Beyond Surviving with Rachel Grant

Is Your Faith Community prepared to properly respond to sexual abuse? How would they respond to the perpetrator and how would they respond to the victim? Why would it matter to me if I’m not religious? Where can we find resources to educate our church? In this episode, David Pittman of Together We Heal, will share how his work with GRACE is transforming faith communities so they can better protect...

Are you a woman recovering from PTSD, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, IBS, Lymes Disease, an autoimmune disorder, another chronic health condition or burnout? Would you like to learn how to take your health into your own hands and gain power in your recovery journey? Would you like to hear about the healing benefits of being in community? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, I...

Eve speaks with Beyond Survivor, Mindy. Listen for a dose of hope, encouragement, and insight as you hear one survivor’s raw experiences from her recent trauma recovery journey. You’ll also learn 3 powerful strategies for how to become the hero of your own journey. Don't miss her insights on how to trust your intuitive capacity to heal, to notice beauty and to lean into the discomfort. Even more o...

In this episode, marking the start of the 6th season of the podcast, my guest Chris Times and I explore one of the biggest question some survivors of abuse face, “Why did God let this happen to me?” We also explore the importance of connection – whether that be with a higher power or the people we come across every day – in being able to heal the wounds of trauma. As a bonus, Chris shares one of h...

In this month's segment of Transforming Trauma, Eve speaks with a graduate of the Beyond Surviving program about how she uses lessons from her own healing to benefit the kids and families she works with everyday as an Educator. Jen shares how she manages her work when it gets difficult and reveals practical and creative interventions. Her story exemplifies the potential of Transform...

Anthony Mossburg, a multi-award-winning singer/songwriter, shares about his journey with finding and freeing anger, which ultimately helped him discover his personal truth in his music career. Tornado Crazy Fool's Game About Damn Time www.anthonymossburg.com Support our show ! If you’d like to make a donation in support of the podcast, go to http://bit.ly/beyondsurvivingpodcastdonation - all contr...

Eve does a deep dive into her experiences and wisdom around the process of sharing about traumatic experiences with oneself, with others, and even publicly. Sharing our stories can feel like a life-death decision, a relationship-breaker, terrifying, and it can also bring us a release, a sense of connection, belonging and freedom. Listen and reflect on your experiences, the good and the bad, and re...

Do you find yourself relying too heavily on sexual and romantic connections? Are you interested in developing healthy patterns of friendship? Join Regina Fletcher for a conversation about bringing friends into your life intentionally and inviting friends to take on roles that are traditionally reserved for lovers and family. We discuss: models for shifting away from a couple-centric mindset; how t...

Coping with the Kavanaugh hearing, lessons learned in preparing for new experiences, recognizing impostor syndrome, and confronting loneliness...In this month's segment of Transforming Trauma, Eve takes you on a tour of her corner of the world. No filters, pretenses, or sugar coating, Eve shares her everyday truth and models self compassion and patience as she tends to her traumatized parts with g...

Resilience is a gift we can cultivate in the midst of adversity, and after trauma to learn how to live life again on our terms. If you are struggling to find ways to cope with the aftershock of trauma, abuse or loss this month’s show is for you. You will learn valuable tools to cultivate resilience after adversity and sustain a practice of seeing the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. List...

Whether in the news or local events, survivors everywhere are shedding shame and speaking their truths. Eve reflects on some of the latest headlines and inspiration she has gleaned from her survivor community. She recommends a powerful video raising awareness about male survivor experiences, and offers questions to reflect on related to how survivors are celebrated, how we find peace, and access o...

Do you feel like no one is listening to you? Do you feel like your voice doesn't matter? Do you wish that you could speak up and say what you really feel? If you have ever felt like your truth didn't matter, this month's show is for you. You will be guided through an exercise that will help your voice be more powerful and help you release the echo of childhood sexual abuse. Your voice is powerful....

Eve speaks with Francesca Maximé, a Haitian-Dominican Italian-American certified meditation teacher in Brooklyn. Francesca shares her integrated mindfulness and relational practices, rooted in psychology and attachment theory, modern neuroscience, positive neuroplasticity and somatic “bottom-up” approaches. She helps heal old wounds to recover resilience and wellbeing after traumatic events. As a...

Has your sexual abuse trauma been compounded by the impact of numerous other traumatic events or relationships in your life? Are you ready to break free from spinning around in the vortex of your trauma story? In this podcast episode, my guest Amy Paulson and I explore post-traumatic growth and how to reframe your trauma story as healing story. We also discuss what communities around the worl...

Eve speaks with Andrew Griffin, survivor, neuro-linguistic programming qualified coach, Amnesty International fundraising​ ​Senior Mentor, and much more. He shared what resources have been most healing for him and how he has overcome the shame and isolation of being a male survivor. They talk about the role of service and purpose in their recovery and share the wisdom that has allowed him to pursu...

In this episode, Amy Oestreicher, peer-to-peer specialist, artist, author, writer for Huffington Post, speaker for TEDx and RAINN, health advocate, survivor, award-winning actress, and playwright, shares the lessons learned from trauma and how she has used her writing, mixed media art, performance and inspirational speaking to spread the word that healing is possible. www.amyoes.com/book Support o...

Eve's back with her new friend Hilary who is here to share the Eastern practices she has discovered in her healing, including qi-gong, trauma-yoga, meditation, and Ayuaschsa ceremonies in Peru. The Body Keeps Score https://www.tarabrach.com/guided-meditations/ https://www.drwaynedyer.com/ https://jackkornfield.com/ Qi Gong for Anxiety, Trauma Release Healing Yoga for Trauma How to Change Your Mind...

Rebecca Pott Fitton's book is a memoir of her healing journey. She followed the archetypical path of the hero’s journey. It begins with her despair and brokenness, spirals through her years of healing with the help of psychotherapy and alternative therapies, and concludes with her spiritual connection within and with the universe. Hers is a success story of becoming who she never imagined she coul...

This month Eve talks with co-founder and survivor, Leslie Holt, of ​T​he Radar Project and the #Me​TooMap. RADAR is the acronym for Rape and Domestic Abuse Report. The RADAR Project has developed a website based technology that through anonymous reporting, simultaneously supports rape victims, helps the public identify unsafe areas, and assists law enforcement in identifying "hot spots" to create...

Do you understand what forgiveness truly is? Do you understand that it is different than the misaligned version of forgetting what was done to you? Do you feel "pushed" to forgive another or a situation prematurely? Do you think you have forgiven only to feel anger and resentment still lurking underneath? Or do you end up feigning what you think is forgiveness to feel that you are adhering to spir...

This month Eve's guest, Cynthia reflects on her healing journey and the creative art work she loves to do with survivors in the community. Cynthia talks about nonprofit leadership, vision for a survivor arts studio, and how she's navigated the challenges of brutal days and learning to develop positive self-talk and compassion for herself. Eve and Cynthia share about the power of friendships in the...

Do you want to feel empowered in your life both in and out of relationships? Do you want to know how you can prevent yourself from getting in to an abusive relationship? Unfortunately, intimate partner abuse happens to 1 in 4 women in the US. As a survivor, Caitlin D’Aprano realized that there were things she could have stayed aware of in her own life to prevent herself from getting in to the rela...

Eve and her guest Bryce Komaroff critique the national conversation about abuse and how we villainize individuals rather than hold the entire society accountable for socializing certain groups to feel entitled and superior, while others are trained to feel inferior and powerless. Bryce reflects on her journey to become a health educator, what’s missing in the #metoo ​...

Are you wanting concrete examples of ways to heal from your trauma of sexual abuse? In this month’s episode, you’ll meet someone who’s been traveling her healing path for decades. We explore how writing can be medicine, hat social action and relationships with other survivors can do for you, and the challenges and benefits of building a "family of choice" when your biological family isn’t enough....

​Eve introduces a survivor sister who talks about several books that have inspired her healing, including discovering Harry Potter is a survivor! They talk about the difference between feeling pitied versus feeling valued and cared for and the importance of recognizing the unique gifts that survivors bring to the world, such as resiliency, generosity, and empathy. http://impactboston.com/ http://s...