In early January, educator, facilitator and applied theater practitioner, Channie Waites, led a remarkable Hollaback! Resilience workshop to help people process the compound traumas of the Jan 6 attempted coup by White Supremacists. Hear Channie share generously of her own wisdom about our nation’s illness of racism and the necessity of truth telling, reconciliation and joy. She unpacks many steps toward healing, drawing on her years of work in Rwanda, as well as personal experien...

The final episode of 2020 and the concluding episode of Season 3: #HealMeToo #AtHome centers the needs (and the extraordinary resilience) of young people experiencing unprecedented isolation and many forms of trauma. As we enter a new year, with many young people resuming remote learning, we're sharing an interview recorded in early fall, with insights, guidance and practical tips from Ashleigh Anderson, a Relationship Abuse Prevention Program coordinator at NYC's Edward R. Murrow High Scho...

In this Podcast Extra, Hollaback! Deputy Director and bystander intervention trainer, Jorge Arteaga, leads listeners in a short grounding practice called "Box Breathing." This practice is used by the military and you may find it comes in handy to help de-escalate every other type of stress too. Learn more about using Box Breathing to keep steady when witnessing and intervening in harassment and other harmful situations during the full interview with Jorge in S3 E9: Bystander Intervention fo...

After a hiatus to organize and lead election activist events 7-days-a-week, we’re back! Our guest this week: Jorge Arteaga, the Director of Operations for Hollaback!—an incredible FREE bystander intervention training org whose mission began with stopping street sexual harassment and has expanded, to stop harassment in all its forms. Jorge is also the originator of their training in Bystander Intervention to Stop Police Sponsored Violence and Anti-Black Racist Harassment, which he previe...

In this episode, we changed up the format to #KeepSharingtheMic with Jovan Martinez and Cassity Yeye of the STEPS to End Family Violence Early Relationship Abuse Prevention Program, who graced the stage at a #HealMeToo Festival pop up event earlier this year, A Love Thing, recorded for Season 2 of the podcast. Jovan’s beautiful lead singing at that event also graces the opening and closing credits of each episode in Season 3, sampling The Whispers. We're so grateful that Jovan and Cassity re...

In such traumatic times, and especially in light of the Movement for Black Lives against systemic racism, as well as the dangers, lost lives and lost incomes in the pandemic, right now our workplaces and work relationships are pressed to become more centered in care. But how can each of us, as workers or employers, adjust our practices to do this? Akia Squitieri is an award-winning Producer, Director, Arts Administrator, and Anti-Harassment Advocate. She is the Founding Artistic Director of ...

Meet Jennifer Ruiz Diaz and Lorraine Correa, two amazing advocates and counselors from the Sexual Violence Project at Violence Intervention Program (VIP) in New York City, a community-based, non-profit organization partnering with Latinx and immigrant communities to end domestic, intimate partner and sexual violence. Jennifer and Lorraine share an update on how Latinx survivors are doing, who VIP Executive Director, Margarita Guzmán, recently described as hunted by abusive partners, abusive...

The #HealMeToo Podcast & Festival have always offered insights, art, and activism to change our culture. And today, we’re taking a break from our usual format, to focus on that third part: activism -- what each of us can do to help change the culture and meet the urgent needs of now. As you may have heard before from #HealMeToo Podcast host, Hope Singsen, she's led an electoral activist group since early 2017 called Swing Left Target 2020 NYC. You can learn more about that group a...

Settle in for a short chair yoga exploration with Julie Fernandez, lead trainer from Exhale to Inhale, a nonprofit that teaches trauma-informed yoga for free to survivors of domestic violence and sexual violence. (And don't miss Julie's full episode: #HealMeToo Podcast S3 E4) Learn more about Julie and find links to Exhale to Inhale's free online classes and more on our episode page. Subscribe now and join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcas...

Discover the amazing Exhale to Inhale, a nonprofit that teaches trauma-informed yoga for free to survivors of domestic violence and sexual violence, now available online for free to everyone experiencing stress and trauma! Our guest is Julie Fernandez, lead trainer at Exhale to Inhale, and the primary trauma therapist with the Hope Integrative Psychiatry team. (You can also experience Julie's beautiful 15-minute chair yoga as #HealMeToo Podcast S3 Xtra 4!) In this Season 3 Episode 4, you’l...

Learn how technology is getting weaponized during the COVID-19 shutdown (and always) for people dealing with toxic relationships & intimate partner violence, as well as in the sextortion and abuse of minors and men--and most importantly, learn strategies that can help. Guests Carrie Goldberg of Victims’ Rights law firm, C. A. Goldberg and #HealMeToo Podcast returning guest, Maisie Breit of the NYC Mayor’s Office to End Gender Based and Domestic Violence (ENDGBV) share a wealth of insights...

A very special Podcast Extra with Sherina Davis, professional trainer, ontological coach and educator with Safe Horizon, the largest non-profit victim services agency in the United States. Sherina led us in a short guided meditation to explore the grounding comfort of being quiet and simply present with our bodies, and with deep and gentle breaths. Sherri Papamihalis, Clinical Director at Safe Horizon’s Counseling Center, and Maureen Curtis, VP of Criminal Justice & Court Programs, joine...

Learn about the incredible work of NYC’s Safe Horizon, the largest non-profit victim services agency in the United States. Maureen Curtis, VP of Criminal Justice & Court Programs and Sherri Papamihalis, Clinical Director at Safe Horizon’s Counseling Center, help kick off the #HealMeToo #AtHome series with an update on the spike in domestic violence and childhood sexual abuse experienced through the shutdown, the sudden recession, and the toll of racial trauma coming up in response to incr...

In this Podcast Extra, therapist and Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, David Fredrickson, leads listeners in a short practice called a "Self-Compassion Break." To learn more about this practice, listen to the full conversation with David in S3 E1: The Kindness & Support of Mindful Self-Compassion. Or, watch the full episode on our new YouTube channel. Join us throughout the summer for new episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as on YouTube as we continue Season 3: #HealMeTo...

In this Podcast Extra, therapist and Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, David Fredrickson, leads listeners in a short practice called "Supportive Touch." To learn more about this practice, listen to the full conversation with David in S3 E1: The Kindness & Support of Mindful Self-Compassion. Or, watch the full episode on our new YouTube channel. Join us throughout the summer for new episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as on YouTube as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Ho...

In the Premiere Episode of Season 3, hear the therapist and teacher of a healing practice called Mindful Self-Compassion, David Fredrickson, and learn some techniques that may help you offer yourself loving kindness, support or even comfort right when experiencing stress, discomfort or pain. Throughout the #HealMeToo #AtHome series, we'll explore tools that may help with the many forms of trauma that survivors and our communities are encountering in these times of hate violence and the ...

Announcing the #HealMeToo Podcast's third season -- #HealMeToo At-Home — with insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. Tune in on July 6 on your favorite podcasting platform or on our new #HealMeToo Podcast & Festival YouTube channel. It’s never been more urgent to change our culture. It’s also never been clearer that all forms of violence intersect, and impact some communities more brutally than others. Throughout the #HealMeToo At Home series, we’ll highlight ways listene...

Sexologist Joli M. Ienuso (@jo_li_brary on IG) discusses the road to heal our intimate relationships after sexual, gender-based or intimate partner violence, including options to gradually reclaim sexual well being and even good sex. Learn more on the episode details page on our website. In Season 2, we've explored ways survivors and our allies can experience healthier relationships -- in our dating relationships, within our own voice and body, and now, in our sexual practice, too. The pande...

Learn about the powerful work of The Angel Band Project and the unique relationship we have with own own voice—including a playful exercise you can join in from home. Guests include music therapist Katie Down, back again after her appearance in Episodes 1 & 2 of this season, and Rachel Ebeling, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Angel Band Project, as well as Amber, a survivor who just recorded her Song of Survival with Katie and Rachel, for the Angel Band Project’s upcoming cd ...

Hear dancer, choreographer, educator, playwright, and trained natural healer, Jinah Parker explore the ways and reasons that telling our story through movement can be a powerful resource for healing. Jinah is the creator of “SHE” which explores intersections of racial injustice with sexual violence, which The Root describes as “a choreoplay that fiercely tackles sexual, physical, emotional and state violence, along with self-care and healing.” Throughout the episode, Jinah shares insigh...