Episode 20: Safe Relationships

Today, we are talking about Relational Health in our Survivors Have Paid Enough series. This is episode 8 of the series, where we explore eight areas of health and dive into how survivors of sexual violence have all areas of their lives impacted by the trauma they’ve experienced. We started this series by exploring how mental health is affected by sexual violence and taking a deep dive into PTSD. We then began unpacking emotional health and what it looks like to field big emotions and practice good emotional hygiene. For this episode, we are exploring how our relationships have been impacted by surviving sexual violence. We are going to look at how survivors end up in a situation where they don’t have many (or any) healthy relationships, the feelings of isolation, and how to tell if a person or a community is safe.