Sarah Wilson

Yeah.

So, I mean, Harvest Home is not exclusively a domestic violence shelter, but often women coming in, you know, have had this experience.

And so, I mean, the first thing is just making sure that both of our homes are confidential addresses.

All of our residents start out at our home in Venice and

we ask that no one disclose that location for like the first 30 to 60 days that they're in the program, because often what comes up is women don't even always recognize that they've been in an unsafe relationship.

And so one of the very first things that we do, our group therapy actually at our Venice home, we do a curriculum it's called seeking safety.

And it is from a very basic fundamental place, being able to define what does safety look like and the number of women who walk away from that course and go, Oh,

I didn't realize, one, I didn't realize I experienced that as a child.

I didn't realize I watched my mom, every relationship she's ever been in, just that.

And so starting from a very foundational place of defining what safety looks like.

But then I think it's really is helping women

You know, Angie spoke to, like, just feeling unworthy and starting from that place of we believe in you even before you believe in yourself.

So helping women, you know, through therapy and through, you know, the classes that they're partaking in to really work on those core beliefs and those core wounds and to –

You know, really, you know, kind of untie this knot of I think often women think, well, even walking out of a relationship that's unsafe, it feels like, well, something's wrong with me or I wouldn't have been there to begin with.

Yeah, so she mentioned our Venice home.

So we have all of our new residents enter in through our home in Venice.

And we first just do an interview to make sure they're okay, make sure they're safe.

Do they have a place where they're able to be for the immediate future, right, for the next couple of days until we're able to bring them in?

But it really is just a conversation of what is happening in your life?

What are the needs that you have?