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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

10/23/2025

🌟 Celebrating the Strength to Begin Again 🌟

Healing isn’t always about moving forward. Sometimes, it’s about starting over.

💡 “What is one moment when you gave yourself permission to begin again?”

Maybe you walked away from something that no longer served you.
Maybe you reached out for help after a setback.
Maybe you simply woke up one morning and chose to keep going.

💬 Share in the comments if you feel called to. Your moment might inspire someone else to take their next brave step.

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

10/16/2025

💔 Domestic Violence Awareness Month 💔
Why Survivors Don’t “Just Leave”

Every October, we shine a light on the realities of domestic violence. One of the most common and harmful questions survivors face is: “Why didn’t you leave?”

At The Soaring Center, we know that leaving is often the most dangerous and complicated step a survivor can take. Here’s why it’s not that simple:

✨ Safety Risks – Violence often escalates when someone tries to leave. For many, staying feels like the only way to stay alive.
✨ Financial Control – Abusers often restrict money, leaving survivors unable to afford basic needs or secure housing.
✨ Emotional Bonding – Cycles of abuse and apology can create powerful attachment rooted in survival and fear.
✨ Systemic Barriers – Survivors are often failed by courts, police, and systems that do not see or support them.
✨ Forced Isolation – Many are cut off from friends, family, or help, making it feel like no one would be there if they left.

💡 Instead of asking why they stayed, we ask: What would it take to make leaving safe, supported, and sustainable?

Survivors don’t need judgment. They need compassion, safety, and systems that listen, believe, and protect.

10/10/2025

🧠 World Mental Health Day 🧠
October 10

Mental health is not a luxury. It is a right.

Today, on World Mental Health Day, we honor the truth that healing takes time, support, and safety, and that no one should have to struggle in silence.

At The Soaring Center, we believe mental health care must be trauma-informed, accessible, and rooted in dignity. That means listening to survivors. It means creating systems that support wholeness, not just crisis response. And it means holding space for the full complexity of healing.

✨ Let’s keep building a world where mental health is treated with the same urgency and care as physical health.

You are not weak. You are not alone. You are worthy of care.

💚 Support and resources: thesoaringcenter.com

10/09/2025

⚖️ Transforming Justice: Centering Survivor Voices ⚖️

What if justice wasn’t just about punishment, but also about healing?

In our latest blog, Micha Star Liberty explores how legal systems are beginning to shift toward survivor-centered reforms. Too often, survivors are treated as bystanders in processes that were never built with their healing in mind. But change is possible, and it’s already happening.

From trauma-informed courtrooms to restorative justice options, this post outlines how real justice must include voice, dignity, and choice for those most impacted.

At The Soaring Center, we believe survivors should not just be heard, they should help lead the way.

💡 Read the full blog and discover what a survivor-centered justice system can truly look like: thesoaringcenter.com/blog

10/02/2025

💜 October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month 💜

Domestic violence is not just physical — it can be emotional, psychological, financial, digital, and more. It thrives in silence, shame, and systems that fail to protect.

At The Soaring Center, we know that survivors often face impossible choices, isolation, and deep fear. Leaving is not always safe. Healing is never linear. And every survivor’s story is valid.

This month, we raise awareness not just about what domestic violence is, but about what survivors need:

✨ Safety without conditions
✨ Support without judgment
✨ Systems that listen and believe
✨ Healing that centers dignity, voice, and choice

💡 Ending domestic violence means transforming the conditions that allow it to persist, and building communities where survivors are seen, heard, and never alone.

09/26/2025

🪶 Native American Day: Honoring Truth, Protecting Lives 🪶

Today, we honor the cultures, histories, and contributions of Native peoples, and we also name the crisis that continues in silence.

Native women and girls experience some of the highest rates of sexual violence in the United States. On many reservations, the statistics are staggering, and the systems meant to protect them too often fail to respond. Indigenous women are:

🔸 2.5 times more likely to experience sexual assault
🔸 Frequently targeted by non-Native perpetrators
🔸 Disproportionately affected by the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)

Too many are taken. Too many are never found.

At The Soaring Center, we believe that honoring Indigenous communities means standing with survivors, demanding accountability, and transforming the systems that disappear Native women in life and in law.

💡 Justice must include the voices long silenced. Healing must include those long ignored.

09/25/2025

📚 Book Review Spotlight: It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn

In It Didn’t Start with You, Mark Wolynn explores a powerful truth many of us feel but struggle to explain: that some of our deepest emotional patterns may not begin with us at all. Drawing on the science of epigenetics and years of clinical practice, Wolynn reveals how inherited family trauma can quietly shape our fears, our relationships, and our sense of self.

At The Soaring Center, we’ve seen how trauma can ripple across generations. This book offers not just insight, but hope, showing how awareness, language, and intentional healing can help break long-standing patterns.

Wolynn’s framework invites us to explore our family history with compassion, not blame, and to reclaim our own story with courage and clarity. This is a deeply validating read for anyone who has ever wondered, “Why do I feel this way when nothing in my own life explains it?”

💡 Read Micha Star Liberty’s full review and discover how inherited trauma may be influencing your healing journey and how it can end with you.

🔗 Visit thesoaringcenter.com/blog

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