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02/26/2026

📚 Book Review Spotlight: My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem

In My Grandmother’s Hands, Resmaa Menakem challenges us to understand trauma not only as a psychological experience, but as something carried in the body across generations. Through a somatic lens, he explores how racialized trauma lives in the nervous system and shapes health, behavior, and collective memory.

This powerful work reframes healing as embodied practice. It asks us to consider what the body needs to feel safe again, especially in communities impacted by centuries of racial violence and systemic oppression.

At The Soaring Center, we recognize that trauma-informed care must include the body. Menakem’s work aligns deeply with our commitment to safety, regulation, and healing that honors lived experience and intergenerational truth.

This is essential reading for anyone seeking racial healing, embodied liberation, and a deeper understanding of how trauma moves through families and systems.

💡 Read Micha Star Liberty’s full review and explore how embodied healing shapes justice work: thesoaringcenter.com/blog

02/19/2026

💬 The Power of Being Believed 💬

For many survivors, one moment can shift everything — the moment someone truly listens and believes them.

💡 “What is one moment when you felt truly heard and how did it impact you?”

Maybe it was a friend who didn’t question your story.
Maybe it was a therapist who held space without rushing you.
Maybe it was the first time you believed in yourself.

Being heard can be the beginning of healing.

💬 Share in the comments if it feels right. Your reflection might help someone else feel less alone.

💡 Explore trauma-informed support at thesoaringcenter.com.

02/12/2026

🖤 Black Healing Is Justice 🖤
This February, we hold space for both truth and transformation.

At The Soaring Center, we know that trauma does not affect all communities equally. Black communities have carried generations of harm, from systemic violence and medical neglect to carceral trauma and economic exclusion, while also carrying generations of resistance, wisdom, and care.

A trauma-informed future must include:

✨ Centering Black survivors in conversations about justice and healing
✨ Addressing how racism compounds trauma and shapes recovery
✨ Building systems that see and serve Black communities with integrity
✨ Supporting Black-led solutions rooted in lived experience and community care

💡 Healing justice means racial justice. And honoring Black history means creating a future where safety, dignity, and care are real for everyone.

02/05/2026

🧠 From Compliance to Compassion 🧠
Rethinking “Difficult” Behavior in Schools and Workplaces

When someone shuts down in a meeting, lashes out in class, or refuses to follow instructions, we’re often quick to label them as “non-compliant” or “resistant.” But what if those labels are silencing a deeper story?

In our latest blog, Micha Star Liberty explores how trauma-informed practice invites us to shift from control-based responses to compassionate accountability. Because behavior is communication, especially when someone doesn’t feel safe.

At The Soaring Center, we believe people shouldn’t be punished for having nervous systems that are trying to protect them. With clarity, curiosity, and connection, we can build environments that support healing and growth, not just compliance.

💡 Read the full blog to learn how to shift systems from punishment to repair: thesoaringcenter.com/blog

02/04/2026

✊🏿 Black History Month: Honoring Legacy, Demanding Justice ✊🏿

At The Soaring Center, we believe Black history is not just a story of survival. It is a story of power, resistance, brilliance, and deep-rooted healing.

This month, we honor the Black leaders, survivors, visionaries, and community builders who have shaped every movement for justice. We also name the ongoing violence that too often goes ignored, including the disproportionate impact of trauma, sexual violence, incarceration, and systemic neglect on Black communities.

To honor Black history is to:

✨ Tell the truth about systems of harm
✨ Uplift Black voices in trauma and justice spaces
✨ Build systems that center healing, not punishment
✨ Follow the leadership of Black survivors, organizers, and healers

💡 Black history is now. And healing justice must be part of how we carry it forward.

01/29/2026

📚 Book Review Spotlight: No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder

In No Visible Bruises, Rachel Louise Snyder exposes domestic violence as a public crisis, not a private failing. Through investigative journalism and deeply human storytelling, she reveals how intimate partner violence hides in plain sight and how myths like “why didn’t she leave” continue to put lives at risk.

At The Soaring Center, we recognize what this book makes unmistakably clear: abuse is not only about physical harm. Control, fear, isolation, and systemic failure are often the most dangerous forces at work. Snyder’s exploration of survivors, perpetrators, advocates, and institutions shows how deeply interconnected violence is with culture, policy, and access to power.

This book challenges us to move beyond awareness and toward accountability. It calls for trauma-informed responses, coordinated systems of care, and the courage to treat domestic violence as the public health emergency it is.

💡 Read Micha Star Liberty’s full review and explore why seeing what’s invisible is essential to healing and justice: thesoaringcenter.com/blog

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.

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