In today's podcast, host Karolina Strain interviews special guests Leah Green. Leah Green works at the Resource Sharing Project as a Rural Technical Assistance Specialist. Leah is a passionate advocate that works tirelessly to bring awareness and supportive services for adult victims of childhood sexual abuse. Leah and Karolina discuss the complex dynamics of childhood sexual abuse, how to best support survivors, warning signs, and the healing process.
Disclaimer: To protect the privacy of our client's identifying characteristics, such as names, gender, age, have been altered.
Books Mentioned:
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence- from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Herman, M.D.
Love with Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse Edited by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Edited by Ellen Bass and Louise Thornton
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
Other great resources:
The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love was Sexually Abused as a Child by Laura Davis
The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Wendy Maltz
The Survivor’s Guide to Sex: How to Have an Empowered Sex Life After Child Sexual Abuse by Staci Haines
Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence edited by Lisa Factora-Borchers
Victims No Longer: Men Recovering from Incest and Other Sexual Child Abuse by Mike Lew
Hollow Water by Bonnie Dickie (this is a POWERFUL documentary about how one Native community in Canada tackled child sexual abuse)