For survivors, the world is especially unmooring.
Body Trust® Is an
anchor
in the storm.
Anvchoring
Anchoring is a weekly community gathering and learning space to deepen your Body Trust® practice built by survivors, for survivors. Each week, you'll receive a new practice to explore and consider. We’re looking to support your life, so this is meant to be easy, accessible, and without pressure. Think of it as a gentle, consistent support and reminder of your humanity.
This is a queer-led, queer-affirming space — built by and for folx who are done translating themselves before they can begin to heal.
A place to land
when the ground is shifting and the past feels present
In the wake of the Epstein files, those of us who have experienced similar kinds of harm, abuse, and exploitation are deeply impacted. Our past experiences feel more present, we're confronted with things that we thought we'd dealt with, and we're coping in ways we thought we'd left behind. I've read a million think pieces about the sexualization of childhood, but I've noticed that the voices of actual survivors are quiet. Lots of us are in a deep freeze response to the evolving narratives, the memories stirred up in our own bodies, and the complete silence or action that might signal that the world cares about our pain. We need a space where other folx get it, where our survival strategies are honored, and where we can stay connected to our own knowing.
Anchoring is that space.
In it, we'll reclaim the Body Trust® that is our birthright.
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a place to return to what you know
What this looks like
One simple, short practice delivered to you each week to support your grounding, healing, and connection to your knowing.
A weekly live call with members of the community to reflect on our experiments with Body Trust® practices in these difficult times
Optional prompts for reflection, journaling, and art-making
Ongoing access to the archive of practice resources
Every Wednesday we meet together live to learn a new Body Trust® practice — something concrete you can carry into your week.
In the live calls you'll have space to reflect on what's kept you grounded, and you'll be held by a group of survivors who get it and are figuring it out right alongside you.
After each call, you'll receive a recording of that week's practice — so it's there when you need it, on your own time, at your own pace. Then your practice is yours. As much or as little as feels right.
On Mondays, something will land in your inbox to support you between sessions — a song, a poem, a piece of art, a meme. A small anchor for the week ahead.
Then we come back together. And do it again.
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A Place to return to what you know
what this feels like
In Community
We'll ground our work in the Foundations of Body Trust while creating space for grief, re-grounding, and community care. Together, we'll explore 6 core practices that will shore up your foundation and bring you back to what you know.
We'll explore:
How to stay steady when the ground is shifting underneath you.
What to do when the past feels really present.
How to know and trust what you know.
Including your body in your healing work.
Putting shame where it belongs.
Connecting to your full humanity.
Honoring your self-preservation practices.
Learning to trust what we know.
Body Trust® is about allowing ourselves to know what we know. It's about learning to exist in your body when your body hasn’t been a safe place to be and the typical distractions just aren’t doing it anymore.
If you’re looking for a way to exist in a body that has experienced deep harm, this is a place for you.
This is about building a home and a life with our bodies that we want to stay in.
Where we can sift through what truly belongs to us, what has helped us survive, what things never belonged to us in the first place, and decide what we want to keep.
Here, we’re learning strategies for staying close to what we know, for honoring the truth of our experience, naming harm when it is happening, unlearning the lies told by shame and secrecy, and becoming more fully ourselves.
This is incredibly hard work, but it is especially hard right now. Anchoring is a space where you don't have to do it alone.
Hi, I''m Christina
I'm a queer non-binary survivor, Body Trust® provider, and social worker. More importantly, I'm a person reclaiming trust in my own body, learning to trust my own experience, and trying to survive in this world. I've been a therapist for almost 20 years, but I've been in my own therapy for even longer, reckoning with the impact of my lived experiences of sexual exploitation and abuse. I'm here doing this work right alongside you, as a person reclaiming Body Trust®.
Together
Connection & Community
The world tries to disconnect us from our knowing and from each other. Create rooted, connected community navigating this moment alongside you.
you can trust what you know
Uncover the moments where we have known our own truths, even when individual and collective harm have tried to bury our truths.
building a practice
Steady practices ground us. Right now, we need simple, accessible ways to stay in our knowing. This is a reminder of what to do when we lose our way.
there is room for all of your complexity here.
What you get
4 intentional gatherings with other survivors focused on deepening trust with ourselves and our bodies.
A deeper connection to your voice, agency, and truest story--a foundation that can hold you in this moment.
Specific tools and practices to carry with you each week that bring you back to yourself.
A community space that can hold your complexity, humanity, and contradictions.
Recognizing that other people feel this, too--the exhaustion, fear, overwhelm, numbness, grief, and confusion--and that it's something that can be held and tended.
Access to an archive of practice resources.
Tell me more….
is this course open to
all survivors?
This course centers the experiences of
people who have survived commercial
sexual exploitation, trafficking, image-
based/online sexual exploitation, ritual
abuse, and childhood sexual abuse.
So often, folx with these experiences
are told that our histories are “too much”
in traditional healing spaces. Your
experiences are welcome here.
Does my experience ‘count’?
Yes. Even if you're not 100% sure that your experience is “real” or you don't have “proof," or if it “wasn't that bad” or “only happened once” or any of the other things that we tell ourselves. There's not a test for belonging here.
Do I Actually Belong Here?
If you're a suvivor with a body, you belong here. Even if you're not sure about body liberation, divesting from dieting, or trusting your body. If you're curious about these ideas, there's a place for you here. This course isn't therapy, but it can be a deeply transformative experience.
What is Body Trust®?
Body Trust®is a strengths-based, trauma-informed, scientifically grounded healing modality that encourages movement toward a compassionate, weight-inclusive model of radical self-care to address body oppression, heal body shame and associated patterns of chronic dieting and disordered eating.. The Center for Body Trust® was co-founded by Hilary Kinavey, LPC, and Dana Sturtevant, RD. You can learn more here.
IS THIS THERAPY?
Nope. This isn't therapy, but it can be a deeply transformative experience. It is a collective learning space, but it isn't and shouldn't be a substitute for therapy.
What if I have more questions?
Let us know! Email [email protected]
Pricing
We know that money and payment are complicated for survivors.
We want you here.
Choose a collective care rate below
additional equity pricing is available
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Steady Rate
$150 in full or $37.50/week
Money is hard.
Pay what you can. No questions asked. Use code STEADY at checkout
Support Rate
$200 in full or $50/week
Money is hard.
Pay what you can. No questions asked. Use code SUPPORT at checkout
Sustain Rate
$250 in full or $62.50/week
Money is hard.
Pay what you can. No questions asked. Use code SUSTAIN at checkout
Individual Coaching sessions
Sometimes, this work asks for deep witnessing.
Individual coaching sessions offer space for your unique story.
If this sounds like you
Contact Christina at [email protected]
Anchoring
a holding ground for transformation