st webinar restoration 6 out of 6

Rebecca Born, LISWExecutive Director, Connections: A Safe Place

rborn1@fuse.netwww.connectionssp.org

This program is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not meant to replace the counsel or treatment of a licensed therapist.

Beyond Recovery to Restoration

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Take Care of you!

http://www.thrivingnow.com/tapping-points-and-instructions/

• Use Grounding techniques– Place feet solidly on ground– Look away from screen focus on something in

room.

• Use Mindfulness techniques– Step back and “observe” your thoughts/reactions.

Restoration

http://sexualabusesupport.onehealth.com/

Let each become all he was created capable of being.Thomas Carlyle

Sculpture by Dean Kermit Allison

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Review of Restoration concepts

• Internalize• Recognize• Responsibility• Power of Agreement• Willingness• Woundology

04/26/2023 2013 Svava Brooks, educate4change.com

Today I Live my Life. . .

Today I live my life as if I am still that exploited little girl.Today I live my life as if I am powerless, but she has the

power to keep me stuck in that long ago world.

Today I live my life as if I agree with the perpetrator and I have little value and not rights.

Today I live my life as if forever I will be plagued with the chaos of long lonely nights.

04/26/2023 2013 Svava Brooks, educate4change.com

Today I live my life. . .

Today I live my life, as if this were still my yesterday instead of the possibility of making exchanges for a restored me and a new day.

But underneath how I live today, is a need to internalize new messages and open up the way.

Rachel Davis

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Exchange

• Give up one thing for another

• Not just covering up the old

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Today I live my life…

. . . as if I am still that exploited little child.

. . . as if I am powerless, but she has the power to keep me stuck in that long ago world.

04/26/2023 2013 Rebecca Born, connectionssp.org

Today I live my life . . .

. . . as if I agree with the perpetrator and I have little value and no rights.

04/26/2023 2013 Rebecca Born, connectionssp.org

Today I live my life . . .

. . . as if forever I will be plagued with the chaos of long lonely nights.

04/26/2023 2013 Rebecca Born, connectionssp.org

Today I live my life…

. . . as if this were still my yesterday, instead of the possibility of making exchanges for a restored me and a new day.

04/26/2023 2013 Rebecca Born, connectionssp.org

Exchanges provide:

• New possibility

• Discovering YOU!

• New protection• Safe People• Boundaries

MAKE THE EXCHANGE!

04/26/2023 2013 Svava Brooks, educate4change.com

Resources• Survivor Support and Resources

siawso.orgmalesurvivor.orgCall 211OneHealth.comacestudy.org

thelamplighters.org1in6.orgpsychologytoday.comeducate4change.comJusttell.orgjaimeromo.comTaalk.orgsurvivormanual.comsurvivingspirit.comconnectionssp.org

The healing begins with you andthe suffering can end with you.

--Svava Brooks

Great Books for survivors: The Courage to Heal – Ellen BassBreaking the Cycle – Sandra RigginsRepair Your Life – Marjorie McKinnon