Annette Schuster Executive Director at Kids Need to Know Part 2

Episode 15 March 17, 2022 00:21:50
Annette Schuster Executive Director at Kids Need to Know Part 2
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Annette Schuster Executive Director at Kids Need to Know Part 2

Mar 17 2022 | 00:21:50

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Annette Schuster is a MAC and a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. She also is a writer of curculum on preventing childhood sexual abuse 

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WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:04.360 Hi, this is Rachel and recover. We've got a special guests coming back 2 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:09.679 to finish the show with Annet Shuster, as she's the executive of kids need 3 00:00:09.759 --> 00:00:14.560 to know. This is the second part. Thank you for listening. Here's 4 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:20.679 part what are some of the more innovative treatments out there you find helpful? 5 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:26.879 Well, the work that you know, I don't know that I could answer 6 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:33.000 that question as I'm not I'm don't sit in that you know world. Is 7 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:40.679 a psychotherapist. I think story work is essential to all work, but I 8 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:43.560 also think there's a lot of times there's a lot of work that needs to 9 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:47.079 be done before you can get to story work. So I think that's when 10 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:51.679 there's a variety of modalities are things that are helpful, whether it's Amdr whether 11 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:57.719 it's, you know, it's you've got to somatic expt you know, therapy 12 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:02.840 with the body. There's I think we're the more we learned about the body 13 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:04.760 and the effects of trauma in the brain and the body, the more it's 14 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:10.359 going to help us be effective as we work with victims. So I think 15 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:15.640 that I think that's where our world is right now. We're really continuing to 16 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:22.359 try to learn and try to apply the knowledge that we're learning and how to 17 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:26.879 help victims. And there's so there's not just one right way. You know, 18 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:30.359 it's different. You know you have to dividualize it. There's some things 19 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:36.879 that are common in marks victims, for every story is unique. Yes, 20 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:41.319 I think. I think healing at some point always a really need to take 21 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:47.079 place in the context of communities. Your harm takes place in the context of 22 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:53.319 relationship and I believe healing needs to do that. I think individual counseling, 23 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:59.680 individual therapy, but I also think, you know well run group therapy is 24 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:05.159 really essential and in learning that you're not you're not the only one with the 25 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:09.400 story and not the only one with the shame. And that isn't to minimize 26 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:13.800 what you're going through, but that's one of the things abuse does is isolate 27 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:20.240 us and we think that we're the only wants and I find group therapy to 28 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:25.439 just be such an essential aspect of healing. You know, I think what 29 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:30.879 we do in individual work helps prepare us for group work, but I think 30 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:38.240 the community work is one of the most important aspects of being able to to 31 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:47.120 heal. Now I just the unique foundation which now is called Suppora, and 32 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:58.719 they have a whole they have groups that are for sexual abuse survivors, but 33 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:02.360 they also have a retreat and it's like a for day retreat and I met 34 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:07.120 several goals on there and we stay in contact and as a survivor myself, 35 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:09.639 I find it super helpful. And the retreat is free. You just have 36 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:14.240 to you just have to pay to get there. Wow, well, that's 37 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.000 really good. What's so? What? What is their reach? Tell me 38 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:22.800 a little bit about their retreat. Well, the retreat is four days and 39 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:27.039 so they kind of just go into training about like the brain and how it 40 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:34.159 works and like the effects of sexual abuse and like you know, and dealing 41 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:38.479 with that. But they also have you do like Yoga and Tai Chei and 42 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:49.000 all like a in like kickboxing type stuff and our Mutai, and they also 43 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:53.800 like have like a professional chef and he like cooks all these healthy meals for 44 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:59.960 us. And, you know, they they just had everything you could possibly 45 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:03.680 you know, they had everything you can imagine just set up for you. 46 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:09.319 And I mean it's you know, it's a big thing of bringing people together 47 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:14.560 and getting away from their lives to find other people that are going through what 48 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:20.519 they have also been through and it's I think it's a great program look sounds 49 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:25.040 like something that definitely like to look into. I think there's a lot of 50 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:31.439 good programs out there, but definitely I haven't heard of any retreats like that 51 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:35.680 that you're talking about that are free. I know there's, you know, 52 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:42.879 the work that alander sooner does. Open Hearts Ministry also has a lay ministry 53 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:47.240 and they do teach people how to run groups and they also, you know, 54 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:51.720 their leaders continue to get to work on their stories. I think that 55 00:04:51.800 --> 00:05:00.360 there's a lot available for people. It's just it's definitely being able to find 56 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:04.000 a place where you feel safe. It's people who are educated enough not to 57 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:10.199 cause more harm, because there are people that you know, you can deepen 58 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:15.480 the harm that's there if you don't know what you're doing as well. House 59 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:18.240 definitely, and I think you know if you're going to lead those groups. 60 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:20.680 I mean I don't necessarily think you need to be counseling, but I do 61 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:27.759 think you need to have good training before you start leading those programs. Right 62 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:30.439 you need to understand the science of trauma. You need to understand your own 63 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:35.879 story. You can't help anyone further along in their story than what you've done 64 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:42.879 in your own work and whether you're a professional or whether you're a lay person, 65 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:46.319 you will have work to do into the day you go home and so 66 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:53.160 the day you leave this earth. And there's you know, most people want 67 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:55.279 to say, okay, when will I be done? When will I be 68 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:59.079 over this? And well, it will just be different, but there is 69 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:02.160 always work to do. So I think the really good leaders, no matter 70 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:05.879 what their initials are or not, after the names of the leaders, who 71 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:13.879 continue to do their work and they do it in the context to community. 72 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:21.839 Yes, most definitely. Um. Okay, next question. What do you 73 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:36.079 think the community could do to educate about sexually abuse better? So what can 74 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:41.759 you help clarify that question for me, like what you and I can do, 75 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:46.720 or what organizations can do? M I guess what organizations are. Communities 76 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:51.040 can do. They can be educated, they could choose to not live in 77 00:06:51.079 --> 00:07:00.480 denial and proactively, out of out of good solid knowledge, learn what it 78 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:04.360 takes to help reduce the RISKIC kids will be abused in their presence, in 79 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:10.319 their organization, when they're there with them. And parents need to be educated 80 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:15.959 because since you've you've interviewed and assaulter and she gets some great experiences, you 81 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:23.000 know, not experiences but examples in her book about not just leaving kids at 82 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:26.399 sacer practice and going off and doing your own thing, or, you know, 83 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:30.920 like actually knowing and being involved where your kids are, not just dropping 84 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:36.879 them off, whether it's the music lessons or so. I think every individual 85 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:44.240 needs to choose to be educated and at least be aware so that we can 86 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:48.319 begin to reduce the risk of kids being abused. If if we're if we're 87 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:54.439 willing to be, I think organizations can't make changes and less individuals are willing 88 00:07:54.560 --> 00:08:00.519 to acknowledge the reality and prevalence of abuse and the likelihood that somewhere their story 89 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:07.800 has has that in it. And when individuals then say really this, we're 90 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:11.639 done with this, not on our time, not in our space, then 91 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:16.079 what love means is that you're proactive, you don't live in denial, educate 92 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:22.600 yourself, you you do your best to screen, you know the truth about 93 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:26.480 perpetrators and how they work and victims and what they need, and you create 94 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:31.120 a community that's as safe as it could possibly be. We're never going to 95 00:08:31.679 --> 00:08:35.840 be able to ensure a hundred percent that abuse stops, but we can sure 96 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:46.440 reduce it by being aware and proactive. Okay, and how do you think 97 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:54.320 the church could do better at responding to sexual abuse? Oh Gosh, that's 98 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:58.960 a good one, I think. First of all, you know, I 99 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:03.840 think all churches need to actually be trauma and foreign churches. I feel like 100 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:09.639 that's just the responsibility of a healthy church, just to understand trauma and understand 101 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:15.600 the dynamics of abuse and it. You're not going to protect your body if 102 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:18.559 you don't understand abuse. So you're not going to protect your body if you 103 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:24.279 don't understand the dynamics of how perpetrators operate. And White Churches are the safest 104 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:28.799 place in the world for white churches are the safest place in the world for 105 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:33.240 perpetrators. So I think you have to have leadership that chooses to be aware 106 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:43.320 and lead and they have to be able to educate and so when they understand 107 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:50.919 what safe practices are for reducing risks, for for creating volunteer programs where screening 108 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:56.440 is adequate. You know, one of the things when I teach in churches, 109 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:01.399 one of the pre teaching questions that I ask Pres our questions is if 110 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:05.799 you've done a background check, you've interviewed the person, the background check comes 111 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:09.919 back clean, then you can be very confident you don't have a perpetrator that's 112 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:15.600 volunteering, and almost everybody says yes, and the answer is really no, 113 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:20.279 because only time you're going to know for sure if you have a perpetrator is 114 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:26.440 if they come back because they have, they have been convictive of a crime 115 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:31.360 and still not not all background checks are even going to pick those up. 116 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:35.200 If they're you know you can. If you look on a sex offender registry, 117 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:39.440 level one and two sex offenders are there, but level three sex offenders 118 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:45.000 are not there. The ones they don't think, they don't label as likely 119 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:48.240 to repeat, you're not going to find them on the sex offender registry. 120 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:56.559 So understanding. How do you create an environment where there's accountability work, where 121 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:01.480 you just have to understand all of those dynamics in order to help create the 122 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:07.159 safest environment possible? And when there's victims, then, because you are trauma 123 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:13.000 informed, then you'll have resources. You'll you'll be able to understand how not 124 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:16.279 to shame a victim, how to get a victim help. Have Resources for 125 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:22.639 victims. Have had resources within your church, whether there's groups where there's counseling, 126 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:28.879 whether there's a professional counseling. There has to be resources for them. 127 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:33.720 And then if there's someone that's a victim in a church that is accusing somebody 128 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:39.440 within the church, like say Church leadership, there's a legal protocol that needs 129 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:43.600 to be followed and they're never supposed to become an isolated judge and jury about 130 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:48.679 whether somebody's guilty or not guilty, or victims telling the truth or not. 131 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:54.200 Through the protocol that needs to be followed and it needs to always be reported 132 00:11:54.279 --> 00:12:00.159 either, depending on who the accused is, either to the child services or 133 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:03.519 to the police department. So they have to be trauma informed. If they're 134 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:07.440 going to take care of victims, they have to have programs that are set 135 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:13.960 up that are meant to provide support to victims and they need to believe victims. 136 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:16.919 They need not to be the judge and jury about whether someone's telling the 137 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:20.919 truth or not. That's for the legal system to begin to work on. 138 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:28.440 and has there been improvement in the church? Well, I think. I 139 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:33.519 think there's been improvement. I think, sadly, improvement can't come unless there's 140 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:41.320 been exposure of tremendous harm. So I think more churches are aware. Like 141 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:45.759 if you, if you just, if you ever felt like doing it, 142 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:50.320 spending an afternoon and just randomly going through the churches in your community and looking 143 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:58.559 at their website, you'll find churches now that have very clear child protection policies. 144 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:01.840 If, well, they may say they want volunteers and their church there 145 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:05.600 is there is at least a screening process that they need to go through, 146 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:09.639 and so I think the churches that take it seriously you're going to see it 147 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:18.039 on the front page of what they do on their websites, and so I 148 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:24.639 do think that there's improvement. I also think because of lawsuits, insurance companies 149 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:31.799 have required churches put some safer practices into place because if they, you know, 150 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:37.519 they'll right clauses into the insurance policies that, if you know, summers 151 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:41.759 a volunteer or employee of that church is accused of sexual abuse, there's a 152 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:46.759 there's a clause in there that they won't cover it. So I think that, 153 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:50.799 God is said to me churches more aware. So I do think that 154 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:58.000 there's improvement, but gosh there's a long ways to go. Yeah, I 155 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:01.639 know a lot of grants right now. To get to get a grant, 156 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:05.600 you have to like for mental health fields, they have to be trauma informed. 157 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:13.440 So I think that's a good policy to have in place. Last two 158 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:20.759 questions. What do you do for self care? MMM, well, that's 159 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:24.360 a really good question because I have to work on that. It's an area 160 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:28.919 where I can certainly improve, but I think it's a new I mean I 161 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:33.759 have a lot to balance. I'm adopting my fifteen year old granddaughter who adoption 162 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:39.159 will be complete tomorrow. I'm a lenkal guardian of my nineteen year old grandson 163 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:45.639 that has a lot of issues. So just as a kind of parent, 164 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:50.200 I have to work at self care. So I try to do little things. 165 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:54.039 You know, they can always be big things, but try to find 166 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:58.639 some time every day where I don't have anything buddy I need to answer to 167 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:03.480 for anything, whether I just go sit on my chair and rock in the 168 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:07.080 backyard a little bit, whether I kind of practice what I teach and I 169 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:09.919 get up when I do my morning pages, so that at least I stay 170 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:15.240 connected emotionally and all my yet gets to go someplace and I don't just carry 171 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:18.879 it around with me. And then I have friends in community that I know 172 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:24.360 that I can always turn to when I need to and every now and then 173 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:26.879 I try to do fun things. My friend. Thing is I like going 174 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:31.039 to baseball games, so I will go to a baseball game or or when 175 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:35.600 I can, I will hike or I love to travel. So but traveling 176 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:41.559 hasn't been part of life really for the past few years. How good old 177 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:48.679 covid? Yeah, good old covid. How has this impacted your faith? 178 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:52.759 Gosh, I've been all over the place with my faith. So when you 179 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:58.200 say this, what do you mean by this? Like your work with sexual 180 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:04.399 abuse, being sexually abused? I guess all of them. I think we 181 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:11.399 probably need a lot of years to unpack that one. I've just gone. 182 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:17.679 I've gotten through seasons of believing, believing God was good and I was bad. 183 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:23.840 I believe God is a perpetrator and I was the victim. I've hated 184 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:30.159 God, I've tried to disown God. I angry, angry, angry, 185 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:40.200 and yet it at the same time it's really it's my home base and through 186 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:44.799 all of these years of wrestling, it's like there's so much I just don't 187 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:51.480 understand right. I can't comprehend. I can't comprehend the harm that takes place 188 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:53.840 in this world and the suffering that takes place in this world and not just 189 00:16:53.879 --> 00:17:02.639 through sexual abuse and get the same time, at this point in my life 190 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:07.519 anyway, I can also come back to a place of and I don't get 191 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:11.920 it, but I really believe my safe place is God and that he is 192 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:15.640 good, that he is loving, and I just don't get it a lot 193 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:22.839 of times. So sometimes nature is what brings me back to that reality, 194 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:27.440 you know. Like you know, I find peace so much in nature and 195 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:33.039 I think that is a gift that reminds me that that there really is something 196 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:37.079 bigger than myself. And then, you know, I know where I've come 197 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:38.799 from in my story and where I am now, and I certainly did get 198 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:45.519 there on my own, and so it helps me really hold old faith for 199 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:52.079 others that just they don't have any and they can't see beyond their pain and 200 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:57.599 their hopelessness. So I don't know that I've really answered your question, but 201 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:07.519 it's certainly rather it's not a it's not my relationship with God is certainly not 202 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:12.440 a relationship, but there's not a lot of wrestling. Well, I think 203 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:15.319 all of us can at acknowledge that at some point in our line. I 204 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:22.200 mean and and I can get done in meeting someone and I don't know swhere. 205 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:23.960 Words are appropriate here. So I'll just try not to but I'll just 206 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:30.599 say, what are you thinking, God, like, really like, I 207 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:34.920 don't I just don't get you. But it doesn't turn into like it did 208 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:37.759 at one point in my life, two years of rage. It's just like 209 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:45.759 I don't get you. And yet, you know, I know when I 210 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:48.640 go to bed at night, I have some stuff that I listened to and 211 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:52.759 it's like, okay, that's okay, I can come to a place of 212 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:59.160 comfort and rest at this moment in time. And so I don't know, 213 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:06.599 it's a it's definitely made my faith very living, very alive, very real. 214 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:11.880 I can I can be mad and you swearing it got in and really 215 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:18.000 love him deeply and be worshiping him also, maybe not a bipolar but I 216 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:22.960 don't know, all over the place. It's just what's real. You know 217 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:27.279 well, I mean I think when we deal with the stuff, especially day 218 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:33.839 in a day out, Hey, it makes this question things and depend on 219 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:40.759 him more than we ever thought we we would need to be dependent on him. 220 00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:45.400 Right, and and yet as much as like I love him, I 221 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:51.880 just don't get it most of the time and and I just I often I'd 222 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:56.160 like, really, I don't get it. I just I don't get it. 223 00:19:56.279 --> 00:20:02.279 And yet took a thing. I don't have to figure it all out, 224 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:04.359 because if I had to come to all my own conclusions, then I 225 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:11.119 probably be really angry, bitter and a harmful force in this world rather than 226 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:15.559 trying to be a helpful force. Aparenthot, I had my season of life 227 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:18.640 where I was so waging angry that I was more of a harmful force, 228 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:27.400 and I then helpful now. I think many survivors feel that way at some 229 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:33.319 point. Well, when I finally believed I had permission to be mad at 230 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:37.079 God, boy as I'm ad all those years of believing it was wrong, 231 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:42.200 I took care of that one. And there was such a gift because, 232 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:45.599 you know, he didn't strike me dead, he didn't lightning, didn't come 233 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:53.039 down, he didn't just sell me. Well, okay, maybe nothing can 234 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:57.160 separate me from the love of God, even my doubts, more like a 235 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:03.039 faith at times. Fair enough. Anything else you would like to add before 236 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:07.279 we wrap up? No, I don't. I don't think so. Thank 237 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:11.440 you for the your patience and getting this all together and for the work you 238 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:15.920 do in the stories you listen to. I mean you're a survivor trying to 239 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:19.759 help others. So thank you for inviting me into that journey with you. 240 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:25.759 Well, thank you for letting me be in yours. All Right, Ladies 241 00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:33.880 and gentlemen, we're wrapping up here and hope to hope to catch you next 242 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:40.720 Thursday and we'll have a new episode. And always follow us on social media 243 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:44.640 and find us on your favorite podcast and, if not, always come to 244 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:48.599 Rachel and Recoverycom. Thanks. Thank you.

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September 29, 2022 00:28:24
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Ashley Easter's Journey of Recovery from Cult Trauma

Ashley Easter is Cult Survivor who has write several short ebooks, produce television show and has her own nonprofit Courage 365. Intuition Work: www.AshleyEaster.com...

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