Episode 54: Recovering from Sexual Assault with Holly
Wine, Dine, and 69
English - April 08, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 588 KBSexuality Health & Fitness Society & Culture Relationships sex sexuality relationships love communication therapy dating self love Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
**Content Warning: This episode discusses sexual assault and may be triggering for some listeners.** Rachel shares some PleazeMe news and then gets straight to today’s topic. Today’s guest is Holly Moyseenko who is a sex educator and works with survivors of sexual assualt. Holly talks about what can happen in the aftermath of an assault, how a survivor can take care of themselves, how a survivor can approach intimacy again once they are ready, and how you can support a loved one who is a survivor of assault.
**Content Warning: This episode discusses sexual assault and may be triggering for some listeners.** Rachel shares some PleazeMe news and then gets straight to today’s topic. Today’s guest is Holly Moyseenko who is a sex educator and works with survivors of sexual assualt. Holly talks about what can happen in the aftermath of an assault, how a survivor can take care of themselves, how a survivor can approach intimacy again once they are ready, and how you can support a loved one who is a survivor of assault.
Episode Notes:
Conversation with Holly begins at 00:05:25.
“Trauma results when a person has control over her body taken from her, she freezes, and she can’t unlock.” - Emily Nagoski, Come As You Are.
Resources:
- Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): www.rainn.org, 1-800-656-4673
- Crisis Text Line: https://www.crisistextline.org, Text HOME to 741741 to reach a Crisis Counselor
- Scarleteen: https://www.scarleteen.com/
Other things mentioned in this episode:
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel van der Kolk
- Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life, by Emily Nagoski
- The Rejection Hotline that Holly and I refer to appears to be no more, but check out these other similar hotlines to turn people down nicely (or not)!: https://lifehacker.com/give-out-these-fake-prank-numbers-to-creeps-1826672360
- PleazeMe WeFunder link: https://wefunder.com/pleazeme
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Podcast artwork by Yogesh Nankar (Design by Dreamers).
Intro and Outro music by John Bartmann.
Promo photo by Darius Bashar on Unsplash.