Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne.

Rachel Grant is the owner and founder of Rachel Grant coaching and is a sexual abuse recovery coach.

She's also the author of Beyond Surviving the Final Stage in Recovery from Sexual Abuse.

She works with survivors of childhood sexual abuse who are beyond sick and tired of feeling broken,

unfixable, and burdened by the past. She helps them let go of the pain of abuse and finally feel normal.

Welcome, Rachel.

Thank you, Anne. So nice to be here today. Her website, which you can go to later, we'll also say

it again at the end of the podcast, is Rachel Grantcoaching.com. Rachel has an MA in counseling psychology.

How did you arrive where you are now to specialize in sexual abuse recovery coaching?

In my personal journey, I was sexually abused by my grandfather when I was 10 years old.

From that moment of that trauma starting, life just changed.

It's amazing how immediately life shifts when abuse starts.

For quite some time my grandfather lived in our home and he had prior to that really been a very close friend and companion someone who I enjoyed

spending time with but then you know overnight all of that changed. Finding

myself immediately in this situation at 10 years old where I'm scared I'm confused I don't understand what's going on that was really daunting

It went on for quite some time when my parents discovered what was going on, my mom just happened to walk by one day and

noticed what he was doing, they immediately got him out of my home, which was something I've always

been very thankful for because I know having worked with survivors now for 11 some years that

that's not always the case.

And you know, and even though he was out of the house that really didn't do anything to stop

the experiences that I was having, the thoughts that were now there with me on a day-to-day

basis, you know I've done something to cause this I'm bad. thoughts that were now there with me on a day-to-day basis.

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