Mar 31, 2020
Julie Peters’ experience of sexual assault and the healing that came afterwards is powerful and a story that has to be told. This episode is full of “a-ha” moments and deep wisdom. Julie talks about her book “Want: 8 Steps to Recovering Desire, Passion, and Pleasure After Sexual Assault” and how it breaks down the healing process in an easy to digest, gentle format. She and Jen also unpack the complexities of socialization and how it shapes rape culture, and Julie gives some surprising insight into how food can help with healing. Find Julie at her website.
Key Quotes from the Episode:
“One of the things that I really discovered in the process of recovery for me and my experience was that it’s really not about going back to anything, it’s really much more about uncovering a new sense of self and a new perception on what the world is and really taking the lessons from whatever it is you went through and letting those be your gems and riches.”
“I did a lot of research around trauma and female sexual desire and all kinds of research, but really the work of the book was delving into myself and my journey and what I’d been through and really digging up some things and processing them and working them through.”
“We live in a society that has some gender binary and there’s a lot of misogyny in our culture. Even if you haven’t been sexually assaulted, something like 80+% of people who identify as women has been catcalled on the street, sexually harassed at work, felt disempowered by some way in another by the medical system, not listened to. We have a lot of these experiences where we’re told one rand over again ‘you have less value, you don’t have power.’”
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This episode was originally published on shamelesslyfeminine.com/episode-66.
Produced by Creating Space Communications.