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🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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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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