#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our Culture

In early January, educator, facilitator and applied theater practitioner, Channie Waites, led a remarkable Hollaback! Resilience workshop  to help people process the compound traumas of the Jan 6 attempted coup by White Supremacists. 

Hear Channie share generously of her own wisdom about our nation’s illness of racism and the necessity of truth telling, reconciliation and joy. She unpacks many steps toward healing, drawing on her years of work in Rwanda, as well as personal experiences of grief, racial trauma, and resilience. 

In this bonus episode to conclude Season 3 of our #HealMeToo #AtHome series, Channie dives deeply into:

• The nature of racism
• The ways trauma and resilience can take shape within us
• The imperative of facing “what is” and then telling our stories
• How inhabiting our bodies and our power of choice help build resilience
• Why joy belongs at the heart of every step, even in grief or other painful feelings
• Why our culture cannot heal until we tell all the truths of White Supremacy, facing and feeling the ways racism infects us, and impairs our connections 
• A joyful movement practice to shake it all out, inspire the giggles, and help shift stuckness in the body
• And so much more

Learn more about Channie and Hollaback!, and find links to resources on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0311.

Subscribe now and catch new episodes of the #HealMeToo Podcast in 2021 on Apple and all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our YouTube channel — for insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now.

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Music Credits:
Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. 
Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.

The final episode of 2020 and the concluding episode of Season 3: #HealMeToo #AtHome centers the needs (and the extraordinary resilience) of young people experiencing unprecedented isolation and many forms of trauma.

As we enter a new year, with many young people resuming remote learning, we're sharing an interview recorded in early fall, with insights, guidance and practical tips from Ashleigh Anderson, a Relationship Abuse Prevention Program coordinator at NYC's Edward R. Murrow High School, working with Day One, a nonprofit that partners with youth to end dating abuse and domestic violence through community education, supportive services & legal advocacy. 

In this episode, learn about:

• Teen and middle-schoolers specific vulnerabilities to tech abuse in this time
• Creating boundaries when we're at home and everyone's connected 24/7
• Why helping our kids can be tricky when we adults are enduring the same traumas, too
• A deeper take on self-care (it's not just taking baths)
• How adults sometimes gloss over the impact of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter Movement for young people
• Ways to normalize the way kids and teens are feeling
• Tips for recognizing and helping address some symptoms of PTSD  

Learn more about Ashleigh and Day One, and find links to resources on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0310.

Subscribe now and catch new episodes of the #HealMeToo Podcast in 2021 on Apple and all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our YouTube channel — for insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. 

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Music Credits:
Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. 
Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.

In this Podcast Extra, Hollaback! Deputy Director and bystander intervention trainer, Jorge Arteaga, leads listeners in a short grounding practice called "Box Breathing." This practice is used by the military and you may find it comes in handy to help de-escalate every other type of stress too.

Learn more about using Box Breathing to keep steady when witnessing and intervening in harassment and other harmful situations during the full interview with Jorge in S3 E9: Bystander Intervention for Racism, Police Violence & Ending Harassment in All Its Forms. Or, watch the Video Podcast on our YouTube channel.

Join us throughout 2020 for new episodes on all your favorite podcast platforms as well as on YouTube as we wrap up Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home--focused on the needs of now.

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Edited by Hope Singsen
Opening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)

After a hiatus to organize and lead election activist events 7-days-a-week, we’re back! 

Our guest this week: Jorge Arteaga, the Director of Operations for Hollaback!—an incredible FREE bystander intervention training org whose mission began with stopping street sexual harassment and has expanded, to stop harassment in all its forms.

Jorge is also the originator of their training in Bystander Intervention to Stop Police Sponsored Violence and Anti-Black Racist Harassment, which he previews during our interview. 

In this episode:

• Hear Jorge’s powerful personal story
• Learn techniques to safely practice the 5 Ds of Bystander Intervention (Distract, Delegate, Delay, Document & Direct intervention), especially in the presence of police violence. 
• Find out about all the empowering free trainings Hollaback! offers 
• Practice a meditative exercise called Box Breathing, which can help reduce the stress and even trauma when performing bystander interventions. (We’ll also share this practice as a Podcast Extra you can tap into any time you need a reminder or a moment of Zen!)

If you don't know Hollaback! you'll love this org and their excellent trainings, which offer ways each one of us, whatever our identities, can show up as allies for others in trouble. Hollaback! has dedicated training modules to help intervene to stop workplace sexual harassment, LGBTQ+ harassment, street sexual harassment, online trolling, COVID-related Asian/American and xenophobic harassment and this fall they added a training in stopping voter intimidation at the polls! 

Hollaback! also offers advanced techniques for conflict de-escalation, a training to help examine and shift our implicit biases, and a beautiful training to strengthen our resilience to start healing from all 2020 has entailed. 

Learn more about Jorge and find links to resources on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0309.

Subscribe now and catch the 10th episode of the #HealMeToo #AtHome Season 3 later this month on Apple and all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our YouTube channel — for insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. 

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Music Credits:
Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. 
Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.

In this episode, we changed up the format to #KeepSharingtheMic with Jovan Martinez and Cassity Yeye of the STEPS to End Family Violence Early Relationship Abuse Prevention Program, who graced the stage at a #HealMeToo Festival pop up event earlier this year, A Love Thing, recorded for Season 2 of the podcast. Jovan’s beautiful lead singing at that event also graces the opening and closing credits of each episode in Season 3, sampling The Whispers.

We're so grateful that Jovan and Cassity returned to the platform to have a conversation about their work, about the intersections of so many types of stress & trauma at all times and especially right now for survivors of color, about how they're managing in 2020, and what wisdom they could share about how to heal.

About the #ShareTheMicNow and #KeepSharingtheMic Campaign
In June, four badass women and Instagram luminaries founded the #ShareTheMicNow campaign. Bo-zoma Saint John, Luvvie Adjaii Jones, Glennon Doyle and Stacey Bendet worked together to center Black women’s voices on White women’s platforms. As they wrote: 

"When the world listens to women, it listens to white women. For far too long, Black women’s voices have gone unheard, even though they’ve been using their voices loudly for centuries to enact change. Today, more than ever, it is NECESSARY that we create a unifying action to center Black women’s lives, stories, and calls to action. We need to listen to Black women."

 Later they invited all of us to #KeepSharingtheMic. They wrote:

"This campaign was born out of relationships. We invite other black and white women in relationship to recreate this action in their own spaces."

Learn more about Jovan and Cassity on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0308

Subscribe now and join us throughout the summer and fall for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on Apple and all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our new YouTube channel as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now.

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Music Credits:
Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. 
Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.

In such traumatic times, and especially in light of the Movement for Black Lives against systemic racism, as well as the dangers, lost lives and lost incomes in the pandemic, right now our workplaces and work relationships are pressed to become more centered in care. But how can each of us, as workers or employers, adjust our practices to do this?

Akia Squitieri is an award-winning Producer, Director, Arts Administrator, and Anti-Harassment Advocate. She is the Founding Artistic Director of Rising Sun Performance Company and Co-Executive Director for the Innovative Theatre Foundation & New York Innovative Theatre Awards. She’s also the founder of Creating Safe Spaces, which offers anti-harassment training for theatrical environments.
 
Akia coined the term "Culture of Care" to describe the shift in culture needed now, and joined Hope for a conversation delving into the challenges and opportunities for transformation of our shared spaces. 

• Ideas and strategies for employers to self-assess and level up their support for workers
• Questions and practices that may help White folks acknowledge and check our privilege,  acknowledge our participation in the system of White Supremacy, and change our behavior
• The accountability facilitated by call-out and cancel culture, at their best

Learn more about Akia and find links to resources on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0307.

Subscribe now and join us throughout the summer and fall for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on Apple and all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our new YouTube channel as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. 

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Music Credits:
Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. 
Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.

Meet Jennifer Ruiz Diaz and Lorraine Correa, two amazing advocates and counselors from the Sexual Violence Project at Violence Intervention Program (VIP) in New York City, a community-based, non-profit organization partnering with Latinx and immigrant communities to end domestic, intimate partner and sexual violence.

Jennifer and Lorraine share an update on how Latinx survivors are doing, who VIP Executive Director, Margarita Guzmán, recently described as hunted by abusive partners, abusive governments, and now by this deadly virus.

You'll hear ways we all can step up to support Latinx communities with and without status, who heroically perform a disproportionate share of the essential labor the rest of us depend on, and are bearing a disproportionate burden of Covid and economic losses.

Learn more about VIP and find links to their resources on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0306.

Subscribe now and join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on Apple at bit.ly/hm2pod and all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our new YouTube channel at bit.ly/hm2youtube as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. 

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019.

Music Credits:
Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. 
Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.

The #HealMeToo Podcast & Festival have always offered insights, art, and activism to change our culture. And today, we’re taking a break from our usual format, to focus on that third part: activism -- what each of us can do to help change the culture and meet the urgent needs of now.  

As you may have heard before from #HealMeToo Podcast host, Hope Singsen, she's led an electoral activist group since early 2017 called Swing Left Target 2020 NYC. You can learn more about that group at bit.ly/slt20.

Last week, we recorded their full group meeting, where Hope shared the plan to help Democrats Win Everything in 100 Days, and then asked each one of us to make our personal plan of action. 

Because if we want to stop the murderous lies and hate violence of the GOP toward all the vulnerable populations in our country, including survivors of sexual, gender-based and intimate partner violence, then we need to take back ALL the houses -- by winning control of the White House, the Senate, and every State House where the GOP has drawn undemocratic gerrymanders that disempower Black and Brown voters, and all Democrats. 

But to take back all the Houses, it’s going to take all of us doing everything we can. 

In this recorded meeting, you’ll learn the Swing Left strategy to #WinEverything, and you’ll get to know the candidates in Swing States that Hope's group has adopted as their very own. You’ll hear about a ton of different ways you can get active, and you’ll get a chance to make your plan of action too. 

To follow along with the slides and see Hope's speaker notes with even more details, go to bit.ly/100dayplans. You can view the meeting Agenda here: bit.ly/slt20jul20. And we hope you'll complete the survey to make your personal Plan of Action here: bit.ly/100daysignups.

Feel free to share the slides, agenda, survey and this recording with anyone you know who might feel better if they started taking action to rout the GOP from EVERY House. 

One caveat about the recording – we didn’t expect to end up sharing it here. We've used still images from the slide deck to replace all footage of group members, to protect their privacy in the comforts of their homes.

Subscribe now and join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our new YouTube channel (bit.ly/hm2youtube) as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. 

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Music Credits:: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)

Settle in for a short chair yoga exploration with Julie Fernandez, lead trainer from Exhale to Inhale, a nonprofit that teaches trauma-informed yoga for free to survivors of domestic violence and sexual violence.

(And don't miss Julie's full episode: #HealMeToo Podcast S3 E4)

Learn more about Julie and find links to Exhale to Inhale's free online classes and more on our episode page.

Subscribe now and join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as here, on our new YouTube channel as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. 

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Music Credit: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)

Discover the amazing Exhale to Inhale, a nonprofit that teaches trauma-informed yoga for free to survivors of domestic violence and sexual violence, now available online for free to everyone experiencing stress and trauma! Our guest is Julie Fernandez, lead trainer at Exhale to Inhale, and the primary trauma therapist with the Hope Integrative Psychiatry team.

(You can also experience Julie's beautiful 15-minute chair yoga as #HealMeToo Podcast S3 Xtra 4!)

In this Season 3 Episode 4, you’ll hear about:

• Julie’s personal story of regaining comfort with her body and breath through yoga and embodied practices (after hating yoga to start with!) 
• The anxiety and insomnia Julie is observing in clients right now, whether that’s due to the menace of COVID or the long-suppressed racial trauma that is now surfacing in order to heal through the Movement for Black Lives and a deeper reckoning with White Supremacist culture.
• How body-based work can gradually help us feel more comfortable within discomfort, something so many people need in this time of disruption, danger and stress
• Why Exhale to Inhale is different from other yoga practices, from its welcoming affirmation of Black and Brown participants and every body shape, to its emphasis on the experience of choice for survivors that pervades every exercise 
• How yoga and other embodied work may help survivors to sit with and gradually lessen the discomfort and heal the disconnections between our body, emotions, heart and mind that can stem from trauma
• The research and theories that explain why embodied practices like Exhale to Inhale can help survivors reclaim their feelings of agency and power 
• Short movement and meditation practices led by Julie 
• How all of Julie’s work is intended to help clients feel safe in their bodies, comfortable in the world, and embodied, integrated and whole. 

Learn more about our guests and find links to Safe Horizon support resource links on our episode page.

Join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as our new YouTube channel as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—focused on the needs of now. 

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019.

Music Credits:
Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. 
Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.

Learn how technology is getting weaponized during the COVID-19 shutdown (and always) for people dealing with toxic relationships & intimate partner violence, as well as in the sextortion and abuse of minors and men--and most importantly, learn strategies that can help.

Guests Carrie Goldberg of Victims’ Rights law firm, C. A. Goldberg and #HealMeToo Podcast returning guest, Maisie Breit of the NYC Mayor’s Office to End Gender Based and Domestic Violence (ENDGBV) share a wealth of insights and resources that illuminate:

• The uses of technology in sexual, gender-based and intimate partner harassment & abuse
• The ubiquity of tech abuse as part of intimate partner violence
• Navigating PTSD from past Tech Abuse in this virtual time 
• What changing trends advocates are seeing in these times, including increases in domestic violence, targeting of minors, and sextortion of men, as well  
• What parents and each of us can do to better protect ourselves and prevent our technology
• Ways to safeguard your cell so it’s less of a tracking device
• The importance of keeping a log of all tech abuse events and all evidence of stalkingHow advocates are also using virtual tech to provide support while survivors have been stuck at home.  

Learn more about our guests and find links to Safe Horizon support resource links on our episode page.

Join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as our new YouTube channel as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—focused on the needs of now. 

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019.

Edited by Hope Singsen
Music Credits:
Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. 
Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.

A very special Podcast Extra with Sherina Davis, professional trainer, ontological coach and educator with Safe Horizon, the largest non-profit victim services agency in the United States. Sherina led us in a short guided meditation to explore the grounding comfort of being quiet and simply present with our bodies, and with deep and gentle breaths.

Sherri Papamihalis, Clinical Director at Safe Horizon’s Counseling Center, and Maureen Curtis, VP of Criminal Justice & Court Programs, joined us for the meditation, and share about the experience afterward.

Learn more about our guests and find links to Safe Horizon support resource links on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0302.

Join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our new YouTube channel as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—focused on the needs of now. 

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Edited by Hope Singsen
Opening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)

Learn about the incredible work of NYC’s Safe Horizon, the largest non-profit victim services agency in the United States. Maureen Curtis, VP of Criminal Justice & Court Programs and Sherri Papamihalis, Clinical Director at Safe Horizon’s Counseling Center, help kick off the #HealMeToo #AtHome series with an update on the spike in domestic violence and childhood sexual abuse experienced through the shutdown, the sudden recession, and the toll of racial trauma coming up in response to increasing White Supremacist violence, unrelenting police brutality, and the uprising in defense of Black Lives.

Sherri and Maureen also shared ways Safe Horizon has adjusted its therapy and advocacy to address survivors’ changing needs during this crisis, and how virtual services may actually serve to strengthen their offerings, even after they can resume in-person services.   

Learn more about our guests and find links to Safe Horizon support resource links on our episode page.

Join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as our new YouTube channel as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home—focused on the needs of now. 

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019.

Edited by Hope Singsen
Music Credits:
Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. 
Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.

In this Podcast Extra, therapist and Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, David Fredrickson, leads listeners in a short practice called "Supportive Touch." To learn more about this practice, listen to the full conversation with David in S3 E1: The Kindness & Support of Mindful Self-Compassion. Or, watch the full episode on our new YouTube channel.

Join us throughout the summer for new episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as on YouTube as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home--focused on the needs of now.

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Edited by Hope Singsen
Opening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)

In this Podcast Extra, therapist and Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, David Fredrickson, leads listeners in a short practice called a "Self-Compassion Break." To learn more about this practice, listen to the full conversation with David in S3 E1: The Kindness & Support of Mindful Self-Compassion. Or, watch the full episode on our new YouTube channel.

Join us throughout the summer for new episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as on YouTube as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home--focused on the needs of now.

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Edited by Hope Singsen
Opening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)

In the Premiere Episode of Season 3, hear the therapist and teacher of a healing practice called Mindful Self-Compassion, David Fredrickson, and learn some techniques that may help you offer yourself loving kindness, support or even comfort right when experiencing stress, discomfort or pain. 

Throughout the #HealMeToo #AtHome series, we'll explore tools that may help with the many forms of trauma that survivors and our communities are encountering in these times of hate violence and the Uprising in Defense of Black Lives, ongoing state violence against immigrants, and the losses, confinement, and economic stress of the COVID-19 pandemic.

David generously shared three guided meditations during the episode, which we’ll offer as Podcast Extras as well, so you can dial them up anytime! At the end of the interview, David also drew on his deep experience working with children who have experienced trauma, to offer ways we can support kids who may be suffering in this hard time. Learn more about David on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0301

Join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as our new YouTube channel as we premiere Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home--focused on the needs of now.  

Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Edited by Hope Singsen
Music Credits:
Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers 
Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie

Announcing the #HealMeToo Podcast's third season -- #HealMeToo At-Home — with insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. Tune in on July 6 on your favorite podcasting platform or on our new #HealMeToo Podcast & Festival YouTube channel.

It’s never been more urgent to change our culture. It’s also never been clearer that all forms of violence intersect, and impact some communities more brutally than others.

Throughout the #HealMeToo At Home series, we’ll highlight ways listeners can take action. And we’ll keep centering the intersecting harms that so many survivors and communities are going through right now. We'll #KeepSharingtheMic to invite advocates, healers and community members to share stories that aren’t getting told, together with ideas and tools that may help.

On July 6, our first episode explores a meditative practice called Mindful Self-Compassion, which can offer support when you are in the grips of pain.

Our second episode welcomes advocates and therapists from Safe Horizon, the largest non-profit victim services agency in the United States, so we can get an update on that spike in domestic violence form early in the shutdown, as well as other family violence we’re not hearing about.

We’ll have conversations that unpack the compound trauma for Black and brown communities in this time—and all times.

We’ll center Latinx survivors with and without status, who’ve been hunted by the government, and now by COVID 19.

We’ll ask how tech abuse is changing in this virtual age.

We’ll learn what the shutdown means for kids dealing with family violence or sexual abuse. And how to spot signs of trauma in young people, and be ready to respond if and when they disclose.

Tune in July 6, to join Founding Artistic Director & Host, Hope Singsen, for the first episode of Season 3: #HealMeToo At Home.

Music Credits:
Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez
Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie
Sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers 

Sexologist Joli M. Ienuso (@jo_li_brary on IG) discusses the road to heal our intimate relationships after sexual, gender-based or intimate partner violence, including options to gradually reclaim sexual well being and even good sex. Learn more on the episode details page on our website.

In Season 2, we've explored ways survivors and our allies can experience healthier relationships -- in our dating relationships, within our own voice and body, and now, in our sexual practice, too. The pandemic and shutdown interrupted our plans for Season 2, and this episode will be the last in the series on Relationships.

Join us on July 6, 2020 and throughout the summer for new episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as our new YouTube channel as we premiere Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home--focused on the needs of now.  

Subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast & binge Season 1 today, then look for new episodes resuming July 6. Till then, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Audio Direction by Delaney Hafener
Edited by Hope Singsen
Opening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)

Learn about the powerful work of The Angel Band Project and the unique relationship we have with own own voice—including a playful exercise you can join in from home. Guests include music therapist Katie Down, back again after her appearance in Episodes 1 & 2 of this season, and Rachel Ebeling, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Angel Band Project, as well as Amber, a survivor who just recorded her Song of Survival with Katie and Rachel, for the Angel Band Project’s upcoming cd release. 

In this episode you’ll hear:

• The experience of healing through music that launched The Angel Band Project
• Ways music and playful, curious collaboration can help open up the heart to heal
• Details of a survivor's story navigating, leaving, and starting to heal from a harmful relationship, and how writing and recording a song helped her step forward to be heard
• Excerpts from The Angel Band Project’s original Songs of Survival album, including:
  
  
  • Time To Be Free by Dawn Mason, Lead Vocals Dawn Mason, Vocals: Courtney Arndt
  • Rise Up by Hannah Tombley, Vocals and Piano: Hannah Tombley
  • I’m Not Silent Anymore by Deb Busch, Vocals Deb Busch, Piano: Rocky Tucker
  • Just Keep Running by Tess Sundhausen, Lead Vocals: Tess Sundhausen, Vocals: Courtney Arndt, Guitar: Chris Helmick and Courtney Arndt, Ukelele/Vocals: Devon Cahill
  • Start Living by Erin Rieke, Lead Vocals: Erin Rieke, Accompanying Vocals: Heather Lawyer, Piano: Dave Drebes 
  • Home by Judy Rosen, Tibetan Singing Bowls and Melody: Judy Rosen, Violin: Judy Lindquist, Cello: Caitlin Hawkins, Double Bass: Courtney Arndt, Vocal: Judy Rosen

Buy The Angel Band Project's Songs of Survival on Amazon and cdbaby. For guest bios and related links, visit the episode details page at healmetoopodcast.com.

Throughout Season 2, we'll explore ways survivors and our allies can experience healthier relationships -- whether that’s at work, in our communities, within our own bodies and ourselves, or in our intimate sexual lives.

Subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast & binge Season 1 today, then look for the second installment of A LOVE THING next week. Till then, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

The recording facilities and engineer for this episode were provided through the generous support of Fr. James Hauver, Pastor of St. Columba Church, and Fr. Walter Niebrzydowski of The Fr. Walter Outreach, inc., a nonprofit organization working to repair the effects of sexual violence and gender oppression. You can learn more about their mission to promote the true, the good, and the beautiful through spirituality, media, and technology at fatherwaltersparish.org.

Recorded & Engineered by Corey Kaup
Edited by Hope Singsen
Opening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)

Hear dancer, choreographer, educator, playwright, and trained natural healer, Jinah Parker explore the ways and reasons that telling our story through movement can be a powerful resource for healing. Jinah is the creator of “SHE” which explores intersections of racial injustice with sexual violence, which The Root describes as “a choreoplay that fiercely tackles sexual, physical, emotional and state violence, along with self-care and healing.” 

Throughout the episode, Jinah shares insights and creative healing tools that we can use from home to sit with whatever we’re feeling, connect with those around us, foster dynamic conversations with our communities, build a more positive relationship with our bodies, and use movement and music to spark some better feelings in our body and self, when we’re feeling stuck.

See Jinah's bio, photos and more details about the episode on the episode detail page. 

Throughout Season 2, we'll explore ways survivors and our allies can experience healthier relationships -- whether that’s at work, in our communities, within our own bodies and ourselves, or in our intimate sexual lives.

Subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast & binge Season 1 today, then look for the second installment of A LOVE THING next week. Till then, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.

The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Audio Direction by Delaney Hafener
Edited by Hope Singsen
Opening & closing music: "Love Is Rising" written by Vanessa Marie Milanesi & Helga Kaefer, performed by Vanessa Marie (@vanessamariemusic)