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01/22/2026

🚨 Honoring Stories That Are Too Often Ignored 🚨
January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month

Survivors of trafficking often carry their stories in silence, not because they lack courage, but because the world too often fails to listen.

💡 “What is one thing you wish more people understood about exploitation or trafficking?”

Maybe that it doesn’t always look like what’s shown in the media.
Maybe that it happens in homes, workplaces, and communities every day.
Maybe that healing takes time, safety, and real support.

💬 If it feels right, share in the comments. Your insight could help shift someone’s understanding and create space for deeper change.

💡 Learn more and explore survivor-centered resources at thesoaringcenter.com.

01/15/2026

🚨 National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month 🚨

Human trafficking is not a far-off issue. It happens in neighborhoods, workplaces, and communities across the country. And too often, survivors are criminalized, overlooked, or retraumatized by the very systems meant to support them.

At The Soaring Center, we know that prevention and healing require more than awareness. They require a trauma-informed, survivor-centered response.

Here’s what that looks like:

✨ Center survivor voices — not savior narratives. Survivors know what they need. Let them lead.
✨ Prioritize safety, choice, and dignity — in every program, service, and policy.
✨ Challenge myths — like the idea that trafficking only looks like kidnapping or chains.
✨ Address root causes — like poverty, racism, and systemic exploitation, not just the symptoms.

💡 Prevention means more than rescue. It means building systems that make exploitation impossible and healing accessible.

01/08/2026

🔥 Burnout Is Not Just Exhaustion — It’s a Call for Repair 🔥

For trauma survivors, burnout often runs deeper than fatigue. It can echo past wounds, unspoken expectations, and survival strategies that no longer serve us.

In our latest blog, Micha Star Liberty offers a gentle, trauma-informed guide to rebuilding after burnout. This is not about bouncing back. It’s about creating something new, rooted in rest, boundaries, and self-compassion.

At The Soaring Center, we believe that healing from burnout isn’t just about slowing down; it’s about unlearning what told you to push through in the first place.

💡 Read the full blog to explore five steps toward repair, reflection, and rebuilding: thesoaringcenter.com/blog

01/01/2026

🌟 Welcoming 2026 with Intention and Care 🌟

At The Soaring Center, we enter this new year honoring what we’ve carried and holding space for what’s to come.

For some, 2025 was a year of breakthroughs.
For others, it was a year of survival.
Both are worthy. Both are enough.

As we step into 2026, we’re guided by a vision where:

✨ Healing is centered, not rushed
✨ Survivors are believed, not questioned
✨ Systems are changed, not just adjusted
✨ Community care becomes the norm, not the exception

Whatever this year holds, may it include moments of rest, resistance, joy, and reclamation, and the reminder that you are not alone.

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.

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