I’ve been spending a lot of time online the past few days. Like you, I’ve been looking for answers, comfort, reassurances. I’ve found very few real answers or reassurances, but plenty of comfort and wisdom – particularly from middle-aged and older women who have already been through so much in their lifetimes. There truly are an incredible number of amazing humans out there. We are not alone in this struggle; nor have we ever been. It is our past for women, people of color, Native Americans, and marginalized people in the United States, and it remains all around us worldwide.
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Originally published January 9, 2024 on my Substack publication: https://amiddleagedsurvivor.substack.com/ This past year my healing took a big leap forward, and I give credit in part to music for that. Both because of something I learned in a Polyvagal/Nervous System course I took last year around this time and because I’ve recently realized how important music is to me after too many decades of letting its steady presence seep out of my life. Always curious about different modalities that could complement my healing journey, last winter I signed up for an eight-week class by Australian nervous-system-healing guru Jessica Maguire. I
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Being sexually assaulted, abused and/or raped is life-altering for victims. We feel ripped away from our former selves and forced to wander a strange and unfamiliar path trying to hunt for pieces of who we once were and getting to know the strangers we have become. All while trying to heal and feel safe again. All while our traumatized brains and bodies continually become dysregulated by events and interactions in a world that moves forward at its usual fast pace. Many of us lose friends and other relationships either because some people suddenly don’t feel safe to us — physically
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