Victory in Healing

DATE: January 31, 2023

PODCAST NAME: Victory in Healing

EPISODE TITLE AND NUMBER: Episode 4-Let Your Voice Be Heard

BRIEF SUMMARY OF EPISODE: In this episode, Julie talks about how to prepare yourself when making the decision to tell your sexual abuse story. While this is a bold step in the healing process, Julie talks about some adverse reactions that you need to know before telling your story.

DATE: January 18, 2023

PODCAST NAME: Victory in Healing

EPISODE TITLE AND NUMBER: Episode 3-Coping with Strong Emotions

BRIEF SUMMARY OF EPISODE:
In this episode, Julie Posey helps you understand understand some of the common emotions associated with healing from child sexual abuse. We'll talk about some of the losses a survivor faces and go through the stages of grief as they apply to recovering from the trauma of child sexual abuse.

0:00 Disclaimer

1:00 Coping with strong emotions

3:02 Dealing with shame

5:11 Grief and losses

6:21 Denial

8:14 Bargaining

10:56 Anger

12:34 Depression

13:46 Acceptance

15:09 Losses

19:26 Conclusion

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DATE: January 11, 2023

PODCAST NAME: Victory in Healing

EPISODE TITLE AND NUMBER: Episode 2-Child Sexual Abuse Culture

BRIEF SUMMARY OF EPISODE:

Child sexual abuse culture is a part of rape culture. It is the common belief and societal attitude that the perpetrator is seldom at fault and the refusal to acknowledge that the child sexual abuse is harmful to children. Child sexual abuse culture has been used explain away the destructive behavior and causes the survivor's report or story to be viewed with skepticism, hostility, and as not credible.

0:28 Introduction

0:41 Survivors of Sexual Abuse Facts

1:58 Child Sexual Abuse Culture

7:26 The Impact of Sexual Abuse on Survivors

9:37 Summary and Conclusion

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DATE: January 4, 2023

PODCAST NAME: Victory in Healing

EPISODE TITLE AND NUMBER: Episode 1-Inside the Mind of The Sexual Perpetrator

BRIEF SUMMARY OF EPISODE:
In this episode, Julie Posey helps you understand what constitutes a sexual offense, the behaviors and characteristics of sexual perpetrators, and the very methodical process they use to lure their victims. Understanding how the mind of the sexual perpetrator works, helps you understand how they work so you can understand that the abuse is never your fault.

Introducing the host, Julie Posey [01:17] 

Myths and Facts About Child Sexual Abuse [03:23]

Understanding Sexual Offenses [08:56]

Understanding Sexual Predators [14:47]

Understanding the Grooming Process [17:38]

Summary and Conclusion [24:20]

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Victory in Healing is a new podcast offering hope and healing for sexual abuse survivors.

The podcast is hosted by Julie Posey, a sexual abuse survivor who endured the trauma of sexual abuse throughout much of her childhood. 

Later, she spent a decade working with law enforcement investigating crimes against children facilitated on the Internet. Her work led the conviction of over one hundred dangerous child sexual predators. Through that, she came to understand the mind of the abuser and the dynamics of child sexual abuse.