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12/25/2025

🎄 Wishing You Peace, In Whatever Way This Season Finds You 🎄

At The Soaring Center, we know the holidays can hold many things at once: joy and grief, connection and distance, celebration and reflection.

Whether you’re gathering with loved ones, setting boundaries to protect your peace, or simply moving through the season in your own way, we’re holding space for you.

This year, we’re grateful for:

✨ Survivors who continue to rise and reclaim their power
✨ Advocates, healers, and truth-tellers showing up with care
✨ Communities working to make safety and dignity a reality for all

💡 However this season looks for you, you are not alone. We’re wishing you rest, warmth, and moments of ease.

12/18/2025

🎁 Honoring Your Needs During the Holidays 🎁

The holiday season can bring joy, and also stress, grief, and complicated memories. For many survivors, this time of year can feel heavy.

💡 “What is one boundary you’ve set during the holidays that supported your healing?”

Maybe it was skipping a gathering that didn’t feel safe.
Maybe it was limiting contact with certain people.
Maybe it was choosing rest over obligation.

💬 Share in the comments if you feel called to. Your boundary might be the reminder someone else needs this season.

💡 Explore more trauma-informed support at thesoaringcenter.com.

12/11/2025

🌍 Universal Human Rights Month: Safety Is a Human Right 🌍

This December, during Universal Human Rights Month, we reaffirm a truth that is central to everything we do at The Soaring Center:

Every survivor has the right to be safe, to be heard, and to heal.

Too often, human rights conversations overlook survivors of violence, especially those impacted by gender-based harm, systemic racism, and institutional neglect. But safety, dignity, and justice are not optional. They are rights.

Here’s what a trauma-informed human rights lens reminds us:

✨ Safety is a right — not a privilege.
✨ Healing should be supported — not silenced.
✨ Systems must protect — not retraumatize.
✨ Survivors deserve power — not punishment.

💡 Human rights begin in the everyday, in how we respond to harm, how we listen to survivors, and how we build systems rooted in care.

12/11/2025

🌍 International Human Rights Day 🌍
December 10

Today, we reaffirm a truth that is central to our mission at The Soaring Center:

Survivors’ rights are human rights.

Too often, systems treat safety, dignity, and justice as privileges, not guarantees. But every person has the right to live free from violence, to be heard and believed, and to access care without shame or fear.

On this day, we call for:

✨ Systems that protect, not punish
✨ Support that uplifts, not retraumatizes
✨ Policies shaped by survivors, not imposed on them
✨ Healing spaces that honor autonomy and dignity

💡 Human rights are not abstract ideals — they’re everyday essentials. And we won’t stop advocating until they’re upheld for every survivor.

12/04/2025

💛 When Support Hurts: Rethinking How We Show Up for Survivors 💛

Most people want to help when someone shares that they’ve experienced trauma. But even well‑intentioned responses can unintentionally cause harm, leaving survivors feeling blamed, dismissed, or unseen.

In our latest blog, Micha Star Liberty explores why this happens and how we can respond with care, presence, and humility. Instead of fixing, minimizing, or questioning, real support means listening, believing, and letting survivors lead their own healing.

At The Soaring Center, we know that support is not about getting the words perfect — it’s about creating safety through compassion and accountability.

💡 Read the full blog to learn how to offer support that heals rather than hurts: thesoaringcenter.com/blog

11/27/2025

🍂 Honoring Gratitude, Holding Complexity 🍂
This Thanksgiving

At The Soaring Center, we hold space for many truths today.

Gratitude and grief can exist side by side.
Healing and heartache often share the same table.
For survivors, the holidays can bring warmth and also deep discomfort.

Today, we honor those who are gathering and those who are grieving.
Those celebrating, and those setting boundaries.
Those surrounded by family, and those choosing their own.

This season, we’re grateful for:

✨ Survivors who choose themselves, even when it’s hard
✨ Communities that practice compassion over judgment
✨ Systems that are learning to listen and do better
✨ The power of small, everyday acts of care

However, you're spending the day, or not spending it, know that your healing matters. Your boundaries matter. You matter.

11/27/2025

📚 Book Review Spotlight: Waking the Tiger by Peter A. Levine

In Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, Peter A. Levine invites readers to reimagine trauma not as a psychological flaw, but as survival energy trapped in the body. Blending biology, storytelling, and somatic wisdom, he introduces Somatic Experiencing®, a groundbreaking approach that helps release frozen trauma responses and restore the body’s natural balance.

At The Soaring Center, we know that trauma is not only held in memory — it is held in the nervous system. Levine’s work offers a powerful reminder that healing is often a biological process as much as an emotional one. His gentle techniques, focus on the “felt sense,” and emphasis on safety align deeply with trauma-informed practice.

This book is an essential read for anyone who has ever wondered why talk therapy alone sometimes falls short, and how listening to the body can open the door to profound healing.

💡 Read Micha Star Liberty’s full review and explore how somatic approaches can transform the path to recovery: thesoaringcenter.com/blog

11/20/2025

🌟 Honoring the Healing Power of Choice 🌟

Healing often begins with a choice — one that no one else can make for you.

💡 “What is one decision you made that helped you reclaim your power?”

Maybe it was saying no for the first time.
Maybe it was asking for support.
Maybe it was deciding that you deserved more.

💬 Share in the comments if it feels right. Your moment of choice might help someone else find their own.

💡 Find more trauma-informed support at thesoaringcenter.com.

11/13/2025

📣 Survivor Feedback Isn’t Optional — It’s Essential 📣

When policies are made without survivor input, they often miss the mark. They may look good on paper, but fail in practice. At The Soaring Center, we believe survivor feedback should shape the systems meant to protect them.

Here’s why listening to survivors changes everything:

✨ It Reveals Real Barriers – Survivors know where systems break down because they’ve lived it.
✨ It Informs Better Policy – Firsthand insights help leaders design responses that actually work.
✨ It Centers Lived Experience – When survivors help shape policy, dignity and healing are prioritized.
✨ It Builds Trust – Including survivors builds transparency, accountability, and long-term impact.

💡 Survivors don’t just need a seat at the table — they should help set the agenda.

11/06/2025

🌿 Self-Compassion in Leadership Isn’t Optional — It’s Foundational 🌿

Leadership is often associated with strength, decisiveness, and pushing through. But the strongest leaders are often the ones who extend kindness inward, especially when things get hard.

In our latest blog, Micha Star Liberty explores the vital role self-compassion plays in leadership and healing. Far from being soft or self-indulgent, self-compassion helps leaders remain grounded, resilient, and responsive in moments of stress, failure, or uncertainty.

At The Soaring Center, we’ve seen that leaders who care for themselves are better able to care for their teams, their communities, and the systems they’re working to change.

💡 Read the full blog to explore how self-compassion can transform leadership from the inside out: thesoaringcenter.com/blog

11/03/2025

🪶 Native American Heritage Month 🪶

This month, we honor the cultures, histories, and ongoing resistance of Indigenous peoples across this land. We celebrate Native brilliance, storytelling, and survival — and we commit to telling the truth about the systems that continue to harm Native communities.

At The Soaring Center, we hold space for the reality that Native women and girls experience some of the highest rates of sexual violence in the U.S. Many go missing without answers, and many more are never believed. This is not ancient history. It is a crisis happening right now.

Honoring Native heritage means more than acknowledgment. It means accountability, advocacy, and action.

💡 This month and every month, we uplift Indigenous voices, support survivor-centered justice, and call for systems that protect rather than erase.

10/30/2025

📚 Book Review Spotlight: A Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0 by Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil

Reconciliation is not a moment; it’s a process.

In A Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0, Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil offers a thoughtful, spiritually grounded, and practical framework for healing across lines of race, power, and history. With honesty and wisdom, she guides readers through disruption, realization, solidarity, and action, four essential stages for those committed to real and lasting justice.

At The Soaring Center, we believe reconciliation must be more than symbolic. It must be relational, structural, and rooted in truth. Dr. McNeil’s roadmap invites individuals, communities, and systems to do the courageous work of showing up differently, not just with good intentions, but with integrity, accountability, and purpose.

💡 Read Micha Star Liberty’s full review and explore how this book offers a path toward collective healing, rooted in justice: thesoaringcenter.com/blog

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