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Thank you so much for listening. Jim E.Binika Eiborne is a survivor, advocate, and mental health professional whose expertise focuses on healing from trauma and sexual assault. Despite experiencing great loss and grief as early as she can remember,

she has also always been a loving force to be reckoned with. Thus, she utilizes her own

heartbreaking grief and experiences and her status as a co-victim of murder to advocate for victims

from marginalized communities and

beyond. We are so grateful she joined us today to discuss all that came and still comes next

in her journey. My name is Jimineke Eiborne. Some folks know me as the trauma queen.

I always like to share, I'm going to say a few hard things.

So if you need to take a break, if you need to take a breather, please take care of yourself.

I've always said that I am a child of trauma.

My mother was murdered in front of me when I was one by my sperm donor.

It was around Christmas time, which definitely changed Christmas for a lot of my family and the structures of it.

From there, I was raised by my grandparents, who are her parents.

They were always so loving and caring.

They were firm, but also I knew that I was always loved.

They have always told me about my mother,

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