Beyond MeToo: Healing the Wounds of Sexual Trauma
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Sexual Healing Affirmations
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Molly shares a meditation originally released on the podcast "Meditations," by her friend Gregory T. Obert in May of 2019. We are hap...
Amy Dawn on Navigating the Criminal Justice System
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Molly interviews Amy Dawn about how she navigated the criminal justice system after deciding to press charges against the man who rap...
Amy Collins--A Survivor of Things Meant to Break Her Spirit
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Molly interviews Amy Collins, a survivor of things that were meant to break her spirit. Being honest with her past has helped her heal...
The Role of Touch in Healing from Sexual Trauma
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Many sexual trauma survivors went into a freeze state.. And so there's this sense of 'My body betrayed me, and I don't want to be in this body, but I...
Anne Jensen on religious & sexual abuse, disclosure, and healing intimacy
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm still struggling with 'my body is my own'... It really does make me angry because it feels like I'm missing out on this wonderful thing that you ...
Sarah and Molly on What Consent Really Means
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Molly and regular special guest Sarah Brennan discuss consent in and out of the bedroom, fear of rejection (being rejected and/o...
Phil Goldstein shares his perspective and poetry
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"I like to think that I grew up in a relatively progressive area of the country… but I definitely, by osmosis, absorbed the cultural expectations an...
Lauren Dollie Duke on Her Memoir Sh!thouse, a memoir of a brutal girlhood
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"A lot of the work that I'm doing now is because of what happened in the backseat of that car... I would be lying if I said that that is resolved... I...
Sarah and Molly on why (y)our emotions are okay
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Molly and regular special guest Sarah Brennan share their thoughts and experiences with big emotions, including "overreacting," ...
Dr. Rhonda Sherrod on Surviving, Healing, and Evolving in response to early childhood sexual abuse
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Rhonda Sherrod shares insights from her own healing journey from early childhood sexual abuse, which she also shares in her recen...
Sarah and Molly on sex trafficking
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
**GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING** please listen with care In this conversation, Molly and regular special guest Sarah Brennan reflect on how close to hom...
Kristen Wray - Volunteer Medical Advocate for Survivors
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2018, Kristen has been a a certified rape crisis counselor in the state of Illinois and a volunteer medical advocate for Resilience (formerly Ra...
Share Your Story with Us in the New Year!
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this mini-episode, Molly invites you to reach out if you or someone you know may be interested in being interviewed on the show. Listen to hear som...
Jeri Frederickson - The Creative Healing Process
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"And so while it is my job to support artists in the work they're doing, I often see my own survival in the work that they're sharing, and for me that...
Sarah and Molly on what we're missing when we talk to young people about protecting themselves
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Molly and regular special guest Sarah Brennan share their thoughts on a key part of the conversation that we should be having wi...
Amanda Mitchell - Moving Toward Connection
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"You're experiencing your everyday life in your body already. Sexual trauma is a trauma to the body already. So it's with you. Learning how to connect...
Laura Davis - Beyond 'The Courage to Heal'
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"When I wrote The Courage to Heal, if you had asked me who I was at that point in my life, I would've said 'I'm an incest survivor,' and that would ha...
Sarah and Molly on Saying "Me Too"
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Molly and special guest Sarah Brennan share their own experiences of the first time they shared aloud their sexual trauma, as well as what came next. ...
COVID-19: Strength and Vulnerability
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"There is, in this, an opportunity to truly listen to what we're being called to move through and move toward…. I'm being asked and called to surren...
My wrist is angry, and so am I
06 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Molly shares some reflections on her healing journey in real time. "I'm angry that I have to do this work. And I'm angry that I've had...
Kate Powers - Boundaries and Baby Steps
14 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"If we're not honoring boundaries with each other on a smaller scale, in a smaller context..., it's no surprise to me that we have this whole culture ...
Donna Jenson - From Incest to Joy
01 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Every small and large step I've taken to speak, in whatever form - whether it's my voice, my play, my readings - every time I do any of that, I heal ...
Reiki and My Decision to Heal after 20 Years of Silence
19 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this mini episode, I share my own story of how I decided to heal and how Reiki gave me the support I needed to do so. -----------------------------...
Tazima Davis - Sexual Agency as a Revolutionary Act
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"When you have sexual agency as a woman, there's less of you being on the defensive as the victim. When we own our bodies, and we own not only our sex...
Sarah Brennan - Looking Back to Move Forward
20 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Once you start examining it, then it's yours. Then you own it. These are MY memories. I'm not reacting out of something that happened to me; I'm reac...
Sarah Buino - Authentic Sexuality
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"If I'm willing to take a new definition of vulnerability and recognize it as 'This is part of the human condition; everyone is vulnerable to somethin...
Molly Boeder Harris - Embodied Justice
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"If we're asking what's next, my 'what's next' has a lot to do with making space for people's healing, which doesn't just mean feeling good and gettin...
Liz Alexander - She Dreams of Freedom
09 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"For young women and girls, overwhelmingly, the silence results in funneling them further into a system of violence. So they go from personal and inte...
Beyond Ford versus Kavanaugh, Beyond Taking Sides
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this mini episode, I reflect on an alternative to the "he said, she said" rhetoric that is dominating the national conversation (yet again). "Even ...
Carly Evans - Astrology as Therapist
25 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Scorpio is the underworld, the skeletons in our closet... And here comes this bright, shiny light [Jupiter] being like 'Hey, let's look at that,' and...
Hillary Catrow - Trauma Informed Acupuncture
11 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"I think with the right support system and enough time, people can really understand their strengths in survival and then use those strengths and crea...
Anna Schabold - Reclaiming the self through yoga
17 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"When we do this for ourselves, we're doing it for the healing of the whole world." Anna is dedicated to the healing arts, and I have had the honor o...
Melanie Jansen - Life is better on the other side
17 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"The story you tell yourself is terribly, terribly important. But when it comes to healing the body.. the question is 'Can I transform that?'" I met M...
Introduction - What is the Beyond MeToo podcast about?
16 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Molly explains why she's launching this podcast and what listeners can expect. -------------------------------------------------- SUBSCRIBE to the sho...