She Is Not Your Rehab
Consider Before Consuming
Fight the New Drug
4.8 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The following podcast episode contains discussions of child sexual abuse, violence, and sex trafficking. Listener discretion is advised.
Matt and Sarah founded She Is Not Your Rehab and launched the concept in Matt’s 2019 TEDx talk.
In this Consider Before Consuming episode, Matt shares how his vulnerability around his personal history of abuse and porn consumption helped other men in his barbershop to open up about their experiences. And Sara shares how her work in the anti-trafficking space led her to establish strict boundaries around pornography consumption and fight to create homes free from violence.
Their work to combat domestic violence, through an invitation for men to acknowledge their own childhood trauma and take responsibility for their healing, has reached millions.
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Watch: Matt's Ted Talk
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Article: 10 Reasons Why You Should (Not) Be Cool With Your Partner Watching Porn
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| 0:00.0 | Life growing up for me was very unsafe, if I was to use one word. |
| 0:05.0 | My father was a heavy alcoholic. |
| 0:09.0 | Violence was a normal part of our lives. |
| 0:11.0 | And when I say normal, we would wake up at 3 o'clock in the morning |
| 0:14.0 | to my mother screaming, being choked, being beaten, |
| 0:18.0 | and we would just go back to sleep. |
| 0:33.1 | Well, Matt and Sarah, thank you so much for being here with us today. |
| 0:35.0 | We love the work that you guys are doing. |
| 0:36.8 | We're so grateful for the work that you're doing. |
| 0:40.3 | And we're really excited to kind of share this with our audience. |
| 0:47.7 | So for anyone who's maybe unfamiliar, can you help our audience understand what she is not your rehab is? |
| 0:56.6 | She Is Not Your Rehab really started out as just a community initiative from our barbershop. So we never set out to create a big movement or even a campaign. It was just simply, I guess, a heartfelt response to what |
| 1:03.7 | we witnessed in our community around domestic violence and sexual abuse, also given that that was |
| 1:10.5 | also mixed experience. |
| 1:12.7 | So what started out is just a humble community, I guess, outreach, turned into this crazy |
| 1:20.6 | viral movement in our book and different campaigns and projects that we've kind of undertaken. |
| 1:26.9 | And simply, it's just an invitation |
| 1:29.3 | for men to acknowledge that their childhood trauma wasn't their fault, but their healing now is |
| 1:35.5 | their responsibility. And so I guess that sort of sums it up. Yeah. Well, but. Yes. So amazing. |
| 1:42.6 | And some of the inspiration, as you just mentioned, kind of came from Matt's |
| 1:46.1 | own experience. Can you speak a little bit about what life was like for you growing up, Matt? |
| 1:52.2 | Yeah, life growing up for me was very unsafe, if I was to use one word. My father was a heavy |
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