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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

09/18/2025

🌱 Honoring the Lessons Along the Way 🌱

Healing is rarely a straight line. It’s a process filled with moments of clarity, struggle, and unexpected wisdom.

💡 “What is one lesson your healing journey has taught you about yourself?”

Maybe you discovered you’re stronger than you thought.
Maybe you realized that your worth was never tied to what happened to you.
Maybe you learned that setting boundaries is an act of self-respect.

💬 Share in the comments if you feel moved to. Your lesson might be the reminder someone else needs today.

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

09/11/2025

🎓 Why Trauma-Informed Training Matters 🎓

Whether you’re a teacher, healthcare provider, attorney, or leader, understanding trauma is no longer optional — it’s essential.

At The Soaring Center, we believe trauma-informed training equips professionals to show up with empathy, respond without harm, and build systems that heal instead of retraumatize.

Here’s why trauma-informed training matters:

✨ It Enhances Safety – Understanding trauma helps professionals create environments where people feel physically and emotionally safe.
✨ It Improves Outcomes – When clients, students, or patients feel seen and supported, trust grows and results improve.
✨ It Prevents Unintentional Harm – Trauma-informed practices help avoid triggers and re-traumatization in everyday interactions.
✨ It Builds Stronger Systems – Widespread training leads to cultures of care, not crisis, across entire organizations.

💡 Trauma-informed training isn’t just about knowledge — it’s about changing how we lead, serve, and connect.

🔗 Learn more about our training approach at thesoaringcenter.com

09/10/2025

🕯️ Today is World Su***de Prevention Day 🕯️

We hold space today for those who have struggled with suicidal thoughts, for the lives lost, and for the people who continue to carry those losses with them.

At The Soaring Center, we know that su***de is not about weakness; it is about pain that feels unbearable and unseen. Preventing su***de means creating spaces where people feel safe, supported, and never alone in their struggle.

Here’s what prevention can look like:
✨ Listening without judgment
✨ Checking in, even when it’s hard
✨ Honoring someone’s pain without rushing to fix it
✨ Reminding someone they matter, even when they can’t see it themselves

💡 You don’t have to have the perfect words. You just have to show up.

You are not alone. You are loved. You are needed.

🔗 Find support at thesoaringcenter.com or by calling 988 for the Su***de & Crisis Lifeline.

***dePreventionDay

09/04/2025

💔 Trauma Bonds: When the Harm Feels Like Home 💔

Why is it so hard to leave a relationship that hurts?

In our newest blog, Micha Star Liberty explores the psychology of trauma bonds, how cycles of abuse and reconciliation create emotional attachments rooted in fear, not love.

At The Soaring Center, we believe that understanding trauma bonds is a vital step toward freedom, clarity, and healing. With compassion and practical insight, this piece unpacks the abuse cycle and offers tools for support, safety, and recovery.

💡 Read the full blog to learn how survivors can begin to break free from trauma bonds and reclaim their voice: thesoaringcenter.com/blog

09/01/2025

🛠️ Labor Day: Honoring Work, Dignity, and Safety for All 🛠️

This Labor Day, we honor the labor of all workers, paid and unpaid, seen and unseen, whose effort sustains families, communities, and entire systems.

At The Soaring Center, we know that true workplace justice goes beyond fair wages. It includes safety, respect, and trauma-informed environments where people can show up as their full selves.

We envision a future where work does not retraumatize but restores. Where policies reflect care. And where every worker, no matter their title, background, or story, is treated with dignity.

💡 Today, we remember that healing and justice belong in every workplace.

08/28/2025

📚 Book Review Spotlight: The Slave Next Door by Kevin Bales & Ron Soodalter

The Slave Next Door is a powerful exposé that confronts a deeply uncomfortable truth: slavery did not end; it evolved. In this urgent and eye-opening work, Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter reveal how human trafficking and modern slavery continue to exist in homes, businesses, and communities across the United States.

At The Soaring Center, we know that exploitation often hides in plain sight. This book challenges us to look closer, to understand the mechanisms that keep people trapped, and to take responsibility for building systems that protect rather than ignore.

From survivor stories to systemic critique, The Slave Next Door makes one thing clear: freedom is not a guarantee; it is a collective responsibility. And the first step is choosing to see what has too long gone unseen.

💡 Read Micha Star Liberty’s full review and explore how this book deepens our commitment to trauma-informed awareness, survivor advocacy, and systemic change.

🔗 Visit thesoaringcenter.com/blog

08/21/2025

🌿 Reflecting on Shifts in Perspective 🌿

Healing often invites us to see things differently to challenge what we once believed about ourselves, others, or the world around us.

💡 “What is one perspective that shifted for you during your healing journey?”

Maybe you stopped blaming yourself. Maybe you started believing you were worthy of care. These mindset shifts can be powerful turning points in how we heal and grow.

💬 Share in the comments if it feels right for you. Your insight could help someone else feel seen on their path.

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

08/14/2025

🔍 Accountability Starts with How We Investigate 🔍

When harm happens in a workplace or institution, the process of investigating it can either deepen the harm or begin the repair.

At The Soaring Center, we believe independent investigations should be rooted in ethics, transparency, and care, not damage control.

Here’s why ethical investigations matter:

✨ They Prioritize Truth Over Optics – Real accountability requires a willingness to face hard truths.
✨ They Avoid Re-Traumatization – Survivors deserve processes that protect their dignity and psychological safety.
✨ They Address Root Causes – Beyond surface-level findings, ethical investigations examine systemic failures.
✨ They Build Public Trust – Integrity in process leads to trust in outcomes.

💡 How we respond to harm matters as much as the harm itself. Justice starts with honest examination, and a commitment to do better.

🔗 Learn more about our approach at thesoaringcenter.com

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