Healing Space Live & Online: Chats with Roxanne and Rhonda
The Podcast features in-depth conversations with professionals—including therapists, social workers, entrepreneurs, and authors—as well as individuals with lived experience of various forms of violence, including childhood sexual assault, molestation, rape, human trafficking, teen dating violence, and domestic violence.
Cultivating the healing process is the podcast's overarching goal.
Guest speakers will:
• Share evidence-based research alongside personal stories of abuse to help listeners understand the complexities of relationship violence.
• Discuss healthy relationships so listeners can learn how building and sustaining them creates positive intergenerational impact.
• Encourage survivors to develop self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-love, while supporting their journey toward self-sufficiency.
Healing Space Live & Online: Chats with Roxanne and Rhonda
Sexual Violence in Intimate Relationships: Is it Rape? Yes it Is!
Linda Lee Blakemore is a national speaker, author, advocate, and survivor. She is a member of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence Speakers Bureau (VOICES), and her second book, Entrenched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go, called “an important addition to the literature of abuse and recovery,” has been named a recommended read by NationalShelters.org. Linda has appeared in videos, on national and international radio, podcasts, and television, including the Montel Williams Show. Articles about Linda’s books have appeared in national magazines including Teen Voices, America’s Family Resources, and Seventeen. With her first book, Kids Helping Kids Break the Silence of Sexual Abuse, Linda traveled the country speaking at universities, roundtables, and child abuse conferences where she educated and advocated for children. With her current book, Entrenched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go, Linda is working with Dress for Success as well as local and national domestic violence and rape crisis centers to advocate for and educate women, especially those who struggle to confront their past or break from unhealthy relationships. Linda’s class: “From Survivor to Author” is designed to help survivors heal and share through the art of writing and storytelling.