October is Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Healing After Trauma with Help from HER: Part II

Even though I've dedicated my life to the concept of healing, after graduate school classes and lived experience, I realized just how hard of a topic this is to cover. It was important to me to share just how hard it is for a survivor to heal, and I hope that by learning about domestic violence, you understand how complex this topic is.

In order for me to share what healing is, I decided to go inward. Here is a piece of my story. Here is what healing means to me.

When I first started "healing," I thought that going to therapy twice a week was the definition of healing. But after a couple of mo...