Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Carolin Hauser-Carson, on air from April 17th
| After #MeToo, What Comes Next? Finding Your Voice Just Isn’t Enough Humanistic Psychotherapist Explains How to “Integrate” The Trauma and Own Your Magnificence So You Can Truly Live Well and Love Fully |
| So under the welcome sweeping influence of the #MeToo movement, you’ve found the courage to denounce your sexual harasser. Or maybe you’ve just finally told someone, or simply felt validated by the stories of so many others who experienced what you did. But is it enough?Statistics show that 1 in 4 women will be sexually abused or assaulted in their lifetime and will on average be up to 4 times more likely to develop depression, suicidal thoughts, PTSD, drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders, relationship problems and physical and/or mental health issues. And, if unhealed, will not be able to live free, purposeful and joyful lives. While #MeToo may give you back your voice, is it enough to bring about the healing you desire? Will voice what happened, in and of itself, repair a stunted life? Can years of self-blame, failed relationships, the envy of perceived “normal” happy women, addictive behaviour or other self-destructive thinking or habits be eradicated by merely verbalizing what happened to you? No, says Carolin Hauser-Carson, a renowned Humanistic Psychotherapist with a large and successful practice that helps women who have been victims of sexual abuse. Getting validation or voicing your anger is only the starting point. The key to healing from sexual trauma is “integration.” In the past, women have been taught to process trauma. But, only through integration and letting go can one truly be released from the full energetic impact of it. Processing merely leaves you with a stored energetic impact that leads to emotional and mental distress. Through Carolin’s 7-Step Blossom Journey, the integration process is completed so that wholeness is restored and normal healthy relationships become possible. JOIN SARA AND CAROLIN HERE FOR MORE CONVERSATION
VIDEOIn her book, Blossom: 7 Steps to Sexual Healing, Carolin lays out a simple and very effective 7-week program that brings about the healing necessary to allow women to create the life they truly dream of living. Blossom stands for:
But Carolin didn’t choose to become a Naturopathic Doctor, Family Constellations Practitioner, Humanistic Psychotherapist, Healer or Women’s Empowerment Expert solely out of professional interest. As she explains in the first half of her book, she was sexually abused, first by her grandfather from the ages of 3 to 7, and then by her mother’s boyfriend from 11 to 13, in her native Germany. This led to many years of chronic food addiction and eating disorders, a constant sense of alienation, unsatisfying and aborted relationships, financial ruin and self-destructive coping mechanisms. All too commonly adopted by women who have suffered from sexual abuse. Carolin began her own Blossom Journey on the floor of her bathroom when she realized that binging and purging would eventually end her life and that the love she sought so desperately could never be hers unless she changed. And that was the moment she “committed to love itself,” the first step that her clients must take to start the Blossom Journey-to open their hearts to love in all its forms. Since arriving in the U.S. from Germany 13 years ago with only $7 in her pocket and a passion to help others, Carolin Hauser-Carson has developed a thriving international coaching practice with women from her home base in Santa Barbara, CA. She has also married her Divine Partner Paul and they are committed to co-creating and advocating, for all, the actualization of the most pleasure-filled experience life has to offer. With so many women finding cathartic relief in the power and wake of the #MeToo movement, they must now understand that the work that needs to be done to unravel the damage of the past and truly heal has only just begun. #WhatNext? http://womanintheflow.comhttp://carolinhauser.comfacebook.com/groups/piqcommunityfacebook.com/TurnOnTheRealYoutwitter.com/carolinhauserhttp://carolinhauser.com/contactFIND MORE SHOWS OF ILLUMINATION HERE Discover the sites we share on linktr.ee/saratroy BE OUR GUEST AND SHARE THE WISDOM All of our shows/interviews are done by donation; if you enjoyed this show, please support us here with either a one-time donation or subscribe and support. Thank you. Please support Our Forgotten Seniors anthology and help to bring this book to awareness.  |
And then there are the memories of being brusquely, and without permission, pushed up against a wall — and loving it. In fact, those were the steamiest moments I could recall. I wondered if I would ever experience such an unscripted embrace again — and then immediately worried: Did my secret desires make me a traitor to #MeToo and what it stands for?No, according to Michaela Boehm, a sex and intimacy therapist and psychologist; they make me pretty normal.>Her 25 years as a counsellor have taught her what many women and men privately know, but are now too afraid to admit — the same truth that the success of “Fifty Shades of Grey” tells: Many women like to be dominated in bed. “Not in their lifestyle, not in their career, but in the bedroom, many women would like to surrender,” Dr. Boehm said. This may explain why, on Amazon’s list of best-selling erotica — a medium that, unlike pornography, is mostly produced and enjoyed by women — themes of male dominance tend to, well, dominate.”
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