10/23/2024
After careful consideration we are now supporting Logos Wilderness Therapy and Healing Institute by donating 10% of our proceeds to the nonprofit organization. We have been financially supporting Logos for the past 5 years. We personally have a relationship and trust the owners of the nonprofit organization and are confident that the organization has a unique and effective approach to healing the complex trauma that survivors of human trafficking, sexual exploitation and domestic abuse live with each day. We now want to invite our clients to understand the impact they are having on a population that often feels hopeless that they will live with freedom from their past.
Clinical Counseling and therapy is a topic that both me and Lexie are passionate about. We believe clinical counseling and other therapeutic modalities has been crucial in our ability to live a whole life and also serve our clients well. As me and Lexie have found healing through our own clinical counseling as well as the stillness found in nature we have chosen Logos as the charity that our clients will be supporting when choosing to work with Iceberg Christmas Lights.
Read more about Logos below:
Therapy Intensives Survivors of Trauma
We hold a foundational perspective of healing and freedom. We believe that interpersonal and sexual trauma is at the root of the obstacles that survivors face, initially and well after they have exited trafficking. Holding the impact of unresolved trauma while also dreaming of a better future, engaging in healthy relationships, and living into wholeness is like asking someone to swim with their hands and feet tied. Maybe they can swim for a little while but sooner or later they will become exhausted, overwhelmed, and give up. On Logos trips, we provide the space and facilitation for survivors to begin to untie the bondages of trauma and to reimagine, restore, and reclaim wholeness.
Program impact
Since 2019, Logos Wilderness Therapy has provided intensive trauma therapy to 46 survivors of child sexual abuse, commercial sexual exploitation, and/or satanic ritual abuse (SRA). Preliminary research conducted in collaboration with the University of Denver on the effectiveness of this program points toward a 98% rate of success with increases in self-agency, self-regulation, capacity for trust, and an overall decrease in trauma related symptoms. Here is a testimony from a survivor who participated on a Logos trip in 2020 amidst the uncertainties of Covid-19. "Despite having access to a wide variety of healing modalities and interventions, an amazing and outrageously supportive family and community, and a richness and depth of personal and professional resourcing, knowledge, and awareness; I was beyond a point of despair prior to going on the Logos trip. Thoughts of su***de and death pressed upon me daily. I did not want to die; but the heaviness from the violence and horror of the exploitation I experienced, was quite literally sucking the life out of me. In the weeks leading up to the trip, my day to day life was reduced to making small, hourly goals to just stay alive. Friends and family were committed to spending time with me to help me move through the next hour or moment and into the next. When not with my loved ones, I was putting miles and miles and miles under my feet by running, hiking, moving in an effort to release the despair into the ground beneath me. I had little hope for great change in spending less than a week unplugged and sleeping on the ground; but my desperation for connection, camaraderie, care, and relief drove me to try, to risk, to hope just a little bit. I do not understand the totality of what happened in those six days in the mountains. However, I believe a combination of the outdoors, an opportunity to just be, the physical challenges and choices, the emotional support, and the professional and therapeutic guidance allowed for more dramatic shifts and changes in me than any other therapeutic modality I had previously experienced. For the first time in years, I have felt like myself; strong, peaceful, connected, able to manage my story and the hardships that accompany it, clear headed, purposeful. The time away didn't change my story, it doesn't change the torture that I experienced, but it did allow me to draw in a deep breath, gain perspective, and provided a much needed reset to my body, mind, and soul" - Anonymous, Survivor Participant
Learn more about Logos here:
https://www.logoshealinginstitute.org
Give to Logos here: https://www.coloradogives.org/organization/Logoshealinginstitute
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