For survivors, the world is especially unmooring.
Body Trust® Is an
anchor
in the storm.
Anvchoring
ANCHORING is a monthly community gathering and drop-in learning space to deepen your Body Trust® practice this summer.
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, so you can access some summer joy.
Built by queer survivors, for queer survivors--an affirming space for folx who are done translating themselves before they begin to heal.
A place to land
when the ground is shifting and the past feels present
Those of us who have experienced sexual harm, abuse, and exploitation are carrying past experiences that show up when we least expect it. Suddenly, we're dropped into a memory we thought we'd already dealt with, and we know we can't keep handling it the same way. That's even harder because it feels like everyone is talking about survivors right now.
I've noticed that the voices of actual survivors are often the quietest in the room — even when everyone is talking about the things that happened to us.
We need a space where other folx get it. Where our survival strategies are honored. Where we can stay connected to our own knowing — even when the world makes that hard.
ANCHORING is that space. In it, we'll reclaim the Body Trust® that is our birthright.
a place to return to what you know
What this looks like
One simple, short practice delivered to your inbox every other week to support your connection to your body and your knowing
A monthly drop-in live call with members of the community to check in about what's coming up in your Body Trust® practice
Optional prompts for reflection, journaling, and art-making
Ongoing access to the archive of practice resources
This summer, we're making space to learn, rest, and reflect with new Body Trust® practices. Small reminders for you and your body that trust is something you can move toward — gently, and at your own pace.
Once a month, we'll gather for a drop-in live call to explore what's coming up in your Body Trust® practice and in your life as a queer survivor. It's a space that can hold your Pride adventures, meltdowns on the floor, bathing suit drama for gender and size-related angst, GLP-1 rage, unmasking, laughter and tears. You'll be held by a community of folx who get it and are figuring it out right alongside you.
Every other week, a practice will land in your inbox. You can do what you want with it. You'll also have access to our full archive of Body Trust® practices and reflections — there when you need it, on your own time. Your practice is yours. As much or as little as feels right.
Between calls, something small will find you — a song, a poem, a piece of art, a meme. A small anchor for the weeks ahead.
Then we come back together.
what this feels like
In Community
We'll ground our work in the Foundations of Body Trust® while creating space for what's happening for you in the moment. Together, we'll explore core Body Trust® practices that 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 and it doesn't need to happen in isolation. 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
2 drop-in gatherings with other queer survivors building a Body Trust® practice and finding moments of queer joy this summer.
A deeper connection to your voice, agency, and truest story--a foundation that can hold you in whatever's happening.
Body Trust® practices in your inbox every 2 weeks--reminders of what you know and specific tools for connecting with your body.
A community space that can hold your complexity, humanity, and contradictions.
Recognizing that other people feel this, too — the wish for a carefree summer, the hypervigilance even in moments that are supposed to feel good, the brief moments of joy that come wrapped in grief. Here, 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 space 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 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]
SUMMER DROP-In LIVE Call Dates
8:00-9:30 pm Eastern Time
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
Steady Rate
$75 in full or $37.50/month
Money is hard.
Pay what you can. No questions asked. Use code STEADY at checkout
Support Rate
$100 in full or $50/month
Money is hard.
Pay what you can. No questions asked. Use code SUPPORT at checkout
Sustain Rate
$150 in full or $75/month
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.
Available as an add-on at checkout.
ANCHORING
a holding ground for transformation