Episode 73: You Are Not Broken — an Embodied Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma with Michelle Roberton

In this episode, sexual trauma survivor and healer Michelle Roberton and I... talk about dissociation as a protective mechanism for surviving abuse discuss how Michelle's process of embodiment resurrected buried memories and flashbacks of her sexual trauma and how she worked through that discuss how talk therapy re-traumatized Michelle and how felt sense and somatic work helped her heal and reclaim her sovereignty share several ways that our sex is traumatized beyond physical sexual abuse, including menopause, childbirth, and religion explore the reclamation of creativity, expression, play, fun, pleasure, and more when we heal our sex share the ways nonphysical sexual trauma shows up in men discuss the overall detrimental effects of porn on our sex explore how sex begins outside the bedroom and what that looks like discuss the role of acceptance and forgiveness in healing sexual trauma share how Michelle deals with triggers and her daily practice of talking to herself share how Michelle playfully and creatively changed her language to create a reality in which she was whole and not broken talk about patterns of self-sabotage and noticing the feelings in our bodies while offering nurturing and nourishment to our whole selves Work with Michelle Belief Beyond the Binary self-paced course No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.