
Welcome to Rise: Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse Podcast. I am your host, Jessica Heil, Registered Psychologist and DBT Certified Clinician. I am also a childhood sexual abuse survivor.
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 16 | Founded | 3 years ago |
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| Categories | Health & FitnessMental Health | ||||

This episode explores some of the emotional and cognitive changes that may occur once the perpetrator passes away.
Today's episode is all about trauma drives - the experience of feeling ultra-driven to be productive in order to avoid triggers related to past trauma.
Today's episode is all about the experience of shame - why feeling shame is common with survivors of childhood sexual abuse, why feeling shame is NOT justified, and what you can do if you can't seem to shake feeling shame.
Today I describe the fawn response. Fawning is a stress response that is learned as a child that helps us stay safe. Fawning is when we try to please and appease an abusive authority figure in order to try to prevent harm from coming to us.
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I just listened to every episode! You are so helpful! This little nugget of healing that I stumbled upon, at just the right moment meant the world to me! Thank you and I hope you are doing well!
My partner is a CSA Survivor. this podcast helped me a lot to see life through his eyes, and tools to help identify and help on his healing journey.
Jessica is knowledgeable, even, and candid. It’s a joy to find a voice like hers speak on this topic… Very very helpful show to listen to…
Thank you so much for your vulnerability and wisdom. I am a survivor of CSA and my story is extremely similar. Even though I am currently working with a therapist, your wisdom is just blowing my mind and shattering lies and shame that have attached themselves to me due to the CSA. Please make more!
Jessica, many thanks for the evidence based material in this podcast. The episode on shame spirals and implementing dialectical-behavioural-therapy’s (DBT’s) opposite action to disclose a history of child sexual abuse (CSA).
You have made the podcast very accessible with clear and understandable information from psychological theories on abuse and trauma. The podcast has been refreshing for me when processing my own history as a victim-survivor of CSA.
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