Beyond Surviving with Rachel Grant

What are the passions or interests that you have become disconnected from? How can you love and take care of yourself this week by tapping into a passion and creating space to express yourself? What are you being drawn to that you keep saying no to that you could say yes to this week? Resurrecting our passion is an act of defiance and a reclaiming of ourselves! #coachrachelsays   #mondaymini...

I connect with Timika Chambers whose mission is to increase compassion, healing, love and truth in the world through her writing and speaking. She shares how owning her truths about her childhood sexual abuse experiences led her out of the darkness and into the light.   We discuss how we can embrace the storms or healing (residual emotions and feelings) related to my childhood sexual trauma t...

Oh hell yeah! Are y'all ready to play this week? Reclaiming our inner child, the gift of playfulness and self-expression...I am all about that. This week I invite you to set aside the adulting from time to time and listen to your inner compass and discover ways that you love to play!! P.S. Studies show that play actually helps speed up the healing process 🤪 #coachrachelsays #mondaymini #beyondsur...

Wow! Thank you universe for this being our first card of the year. Starting the year out by attuning to our inner compass, inner voice, intuition feels like such a solid foundation for a year to unfold unlike any other. One in which we get to start off by building the muscle of trusting ourselves. Time to shed all of the bullshit so you can hear your wise self speak! #coachrachelsays #mondaymini #...

I speak with Hélène Clabecq, branding wonder woman, disruptive story teller, unapologetic leader, and certainly one of my favorite things about her – she’s a Beyond Surviving graduate. Helene shares with us her own story of healing and how that has led her to take a stand and become a voice for change for other women. We explore how to respond to bullies, the prejudices and judgements of others so...

In this episode, I reconnect with Shelly, who graduated from Beyond Surviving in 2016. We dive deep into the moment in her life when she told her mom about being abused and was punished instead of protected. We explore the importance of looking at and healing the mother wound so that we can move forward in our lives to develop compassionate and healthy relationships. Shelly is a mother of six, lov...

As a survivor, interacting with legal systems can be overwhelming, triggering, and even re-traumatizing. It is critical that attorneys be well-versed in trauma and understand the ways a survivor’s trauma may manifest in the context of a legal case. By incorporating tenants of trauma-informed care into the attorney-client relationship, attorneys can increase a survivor’s trust and engagement, impro...

My guest, Sahara Anahatha, speaks about the journey out of the body into spiritual practices to reclaim our innocence and how what is found there can become a container in which we can hold ours and others humanity compassionately and even access forgiveness. I was deeply moved by the perspective Sahara brought to these topics and know you will be too! --- Support our show ! If you’d like to make...

In this episode, Beyond Surviving graduate Jediah shares his story. He went from never being able to keep is head together long enough to finish things (sometimes as small as a full day of work) to, after learning to retrain his brain through our work together, being able to avoid the pitfalls that take him out of the game on a momentary or daily basis. He is now seeing a new trend in his life – b...

In this episode of Beyond Surviving, I connect with Crystal Protsman, who graduated from Beyond Surviving in 2020. We talk about her personal and harrowing journey navigating the court system. From making the decision to report, to going to court, and everything that came after getting her day of “justice”. Crystal Protsman wants to give back to the community that really supported her in her...

Eve talks about her experience navigating unsupportive supervisory and jobs and reflects on how what she has learned helped her persevere and advocate for her needs. Eve speaks to the pervasiveness of stigma in the field of medicine and psychology and offers hope to those of us whose lived experience can be our greatest assets to our work in human services and across industries.  Support...

Jen and I talk about the deep healing work she did in Beyond Surviving that helped her tap back into empowered choice. This was critical when her Dad sent her a hurtful letter, but rather than feel victimized, she activated choice and turned it into a work of art. This led her to further explore art expression, which has become a significant part of her healing. She shares with us some pro tips on...

In this episode, Tim shares about his deep journey to finding his voice and refusing to be silent anymore about the childhood sexual abuse he experienced.  Along the way, we discuss some of the key factors that prevented him from speaking up both at the time of the abuse and later in life. He shares about the major turning point that finally gave him the courage to seek support, and all the w...

We all experience pain and damage along the course of our lives. The focus of this conversation with Beyond Surviving Graduate, Chris, is on the experiences we face in life, whether big or small and how they could trigger our (conscious or subconscious) defensive mechanisms. We discuss how you can spot the walls you might have built up in your life and how you can bring them down by self-love, com...

In this episode, Eve and Rachel draw back the curtain to give a behind the scenes look at their work together. We both share about our passion for abuse prevention work, cultivating trauma-informed leadership, and bringing a social justice lens to sexual abuse recovery. We chat about the importance of family and community, the origin story of the Transforming Trauma podcast segment, the upcom...

This month, I reconnect with Clara Stewart Moore, who graduated from Beyond Surviving in 2017.  Clara has faced so many challenges in her life, from breaking down barriers for women of color in the modeling industry to finding the strength to leave an abusive relationship. She shares with us her story as we dive deep on what causes fear, how to face it, and how tapping into your intuition pla...

Loriann Brown graduated from Beyond Surviving in 2014 and has been thriving and healing more since. She went from hating herself to celebrating all that she is. She has broken the generational trauma cycle and has happy girls who love themselves too. In this episode we explore the power of self-love, the importance of rejecting perfectionism, and how a “unicorn” hairstyle helped Loriann embrace he...

In this Beyond Surviving Podcast, I catch up with Anna Holtzman, who graduated from Beyond Surviving in 2016.  In her previous career editing reality TV shows, she started to have severe migraines. These increased later on after she left this role and started graduate school. Anna shares with us how her pain points have led to self-discovery. We also talk about how, following her work in Beyo...

Eve celebrates our ability to do hard things. She models techniques like practicing gratitude and recognizing both the big and little accomplishments of each day. She shares a glimpse into her world: her womxn’s circle reflecting on our needs in relationships. Listen to her insights and invitation to reflect on your own needs that you may struggle to identify or express!  https://www.cnvc.org...

As the Beyond Surviving Podcast enters its 8th season (whoa!), I am feeling called to do something special for 2021. Every month, I am going to interview a Beyond Surviving Graduate! These amazing women and men who I have had the great honor to walk alongside in their healing journeys are going to be sharing their own stories of healing, discussing topics that they long to bring attention to – thi...

In this month’s episode, I speak with Alma Cheng. She shares her personal story of trauma and we discuss one of the most powerful self-care strategies we’ve both used to navigate the pandemic and all that 2020 has brought.  We discuss what it was like for her to be molested in her bed by her own father, to be shut down by Sunday School teachers, to be silenced by blood family, and to be repri...

Eve shares what’s bringing her joy and what’s been challenging during the pandemic. She offers some tips and insights into navigating this time with greater ease. In this episode, we explore the difference between acceptance of suffering versus fighting circumstances and wishing they were different.    https://www.timetotell.org/new-blog/2020/3/30/self-care-is-the-antidote-to-self-loathi...

As a sexual assault survivor who was kidnapped and sexually assaulted at the age of twelve, Kevin McNeil understands what it is like to be a victim, but more importantly he knows what it takes to move beyond that point.  As a twenty-year police veteran, Kevin McNeil worked as a Special Victims Unit Detective for twelve of those years investigating child abuse crimes. After making the decision...

I speak with sonya shah, founder of the Ahimsa Collective, about restorative justice. We break down what it is, what role a “victim-offender dialogue” can play in one’s healing journey, and the world changing efforts that she and her team are making to radically change the way we address harm as a community. She also shares about some of the conversations she’s had with those who have caused harm...

Dr. Leonie Mattision is a powerhouse woman! She and I discuss her Jamaican roots, immigration to America, battle to heal that included a stroke, and how she conquered the abuse for good. We also discuss how she studied the Bible, where she found role models in several women who bore similar suffering and grew stronger because of it. Dr. Mattison applied her academic mind to these stories and saw t...