Women's Trauma Recovery & Empowerment Group

The model of recovery includes the following elements: Basic education about emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. How current behaviors are linked to past abuses. A reframing of current symptoms as attempts to cope with unbearable trauma. An appreciation of the problem-solving attempts locked and hidden in certain repetitive behaviors. Education focusing on basic skills in self-regulation, boundary maintenance, and communication. Basic Education about female sexuality, correcting misperceptions and misconceptions Creation of a healing community by providing recovery services within a group format Rediscovery of and reconnection to lost memories, feelings, and perceptions.