top of page
Search
Kristin Ray
Aug 8, 20223 min read
A Peace I've Never Felt Before
When I started The Broken & Brave Blog, I wasn't sure there could be moments between the broken and the brave. Today after my third year...
850
Kristin Ray
Jul 5, 20223 min read
Origin Stories of a "Control Freak"
Moving through trauma, anxiety, and chasing control As I work through my trauma with EMDR as well as “traditional” therapy sessions, it’s...
630
Kristin Ray
Jun 2, 20223 min read
Life's Great Relay Race
Who Are You Passing the Baton to? I recently listened to a Brene Brown podcast episode featuring the amazing, Viola Davis. During that...
180
Kristin Ray
May 11, 20223 min read
The Circle of Safety
Very early on in my pregnancy with my daughter, I read about the importance of forming a circle of safety, so to speak, for kids. A...
210
Kristin Ray
Apr 20, 20223 min read
The Power of Peers - How Finding a Fellow Survivor to Confide in Can Be Incredibly Healing
As we move through Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Child Abuse Prevention Month, I have something to celebrate. When the month...
320
Kristin Ray
Apr 10, 20225 min read
What It Means to Be A Secondary Survivor
I’ll never forget the first real panic attack I ever had. I had been in back-to-back advocacy/counseling sessions with survivors since...
450
Kristin Ray
Apr 3, 20223 min read
"Good" Days
The word “good” can mean a lot of things. Trust me, I looked it up. The definition that makes the most sense to me is: “satisfactory in...
460
Hannah Gottschalk, LMSW
Mar 18, 20223 min read
The Importance of Community Resources for Survivors
My name is Hannah Gottschalk and I serve as the Executive Director of SafeCenter Domestic and Sexual Violence Services of Clinton and...
620
Kristin Ray
Feb 20, 20222 min read
My Child and My "Big Feelings"
As a mom, who is journeying through trauma survival, it goes without saying that this journey affects my child. Of course, at the age of...
850
Kristin Ray
Jan 30, 20223 min read
The Broken is Still So Loud
Throughout my posts in this blog, you will hear me reference My Brave and My Broken - thus the name of the blog itself. My Brave is the...
820
Kristin Ray
Jan 12, 20223 min read
Reframing What it Means to be a "Good Girl"
Part of my focus on intentional parenting is to carefully message the values my husband and I hold to our daughter. For me, there are as...
830
Kristin Ray
Dec 31, 20213 min read
Intentions - Not Resolutions, for a New Year
For weeks I’ve been challenging myself to think of what my new year's resolution should be for 2022. Nothing really came to me, not...
340
Kristin Ray
Dec 15, 20214 min read
How to Hear Hard Truths from Those We Love
As the holidays approach, I think each day about how these are supposed to be special times, filled with joy, peace and family. For some...
850
Kristin Ray
Dec 6, 20212 min read
EMDR Lightbulb- The Haze
So, I'm sitting in what feels like my 900th session of EMDR therapy today working through another extremely traumatic memory of abuse...
860
Kristin Ray
Nov 22, 20213 min read
Silence, Shame and Smallness
From the very early stages in our lives, the message girls are sent is to be sweet, nurturing, appealing and pleasant, both in our...
750
Kristin Ray
Nov 7, 20213 min read
Trapped in a Trigger
It happened again tonight, like it’s happened too many times to count. The fact that I've had so many moments like this, makes me...
910
Kristin Ray
Oct 24, 20214 min read
How EMDR Therapy Changed My Life
About a two and a half years ago, I found myself seeking an alternative healing method for my struggle with childhood trauma. I had...
1470
Kristin Ray
Oct 10, 20215 min read
My Truth. My Why.
I have control issues, so there was no way, when I found out I was pregnant three years ago, that I was going to make it through nine...
1540
bottom of page