08/09/2025
rolfingseattle.net
Trigger warning: The following post is about healing from childhood sexual abuse.
As of late, our various media sources are cycling through the many sordid and horrifying layers of the Epstein Files.
For those who have been sexually abused as a child, this can be a re-traumatizing event. If it isnāt a full on trigger, it certainly can stir the unconscious pot.
Child sexual abuse is a topic that is usually kept at arms length. It has the tendency to be kept in a hushed, suffocating and quiet place. Much to the detriment of those who have survived sexual abuse as a child.
There is no trauma quite like it.
It can touch and rattle a person to their very core.
Here are the sobering statistics:
The CDC states that at least 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 20 boys in the U.S. experience child sexual abuse.
According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 13 boys will be sexually abused before they turn 18 years old.
Keep in mind these statistics are based on REPORTED cases of sexual abuse. There are many more that have never been reported.
To seek out healing from such abuse takes a type of courage and strength many cannot begin to fathom.
If you are already on or about to embark on a journey to heal from the wounds of childhood sexual abuse, it is imperative to work with a licensed psychotherapist.
This is a critical, and necessary step, in the recovery process.
That said, when the time is right, it is also important to reclaim the vibrant being of your body through body work . . . through touch.
As a RolferĀ®ļø, as a body worker, I am deeply committed to healing in all its myriad forms.
Every time I am working with a client, I am touching history.
Sometimes this history involves sexual abuse. Sometimes a client is aware of this abuse. Sometimes a client is not.
Either way, the work we do is done with empathy, compassion and a deep reverence for your emotional and physical autonomy.
It is an opportunity to create a space and relationship that can be absolutely antithetical to the dynamics of sexual abuse. This can be, fundamentally, deeply healing.
Where before boundaries were annihilated, and now they are respected.
Where before a client hid their body in shame, and now they can reclaim all parts of their soma and psyche. They can become more whole. Recovery.
Where before their trust was broken, and now it can be renewed and even deepened.
For those of you who were sexually abused, know that you are safe here.
If you are healing from sexual abuse, I commend you.
Yours is a journey like no other.
