For years behavioral scientists, therapists, and psychologists preached those victimized by childhood sexual violence and rape shout fit neatly into two boxes – Victim and if you’re lucky you can ascend to be a Survivor.

Here’s the truth, from the moment you were first violated you were on survival mode, it wasn't an option, you had no choice but to figure out how to live each day.

Survival mode is exhausting, you live in constant state of fear, and willingness to do whatever it takes to numb your fear, pain, shame, and blame for a crime that was committed against your minds, bodies, and spirits. 

Life on survival mode is leads to addiction, suicidal thoughts, depression and lifetime of health and mental health conditions

The power of this program is learning how to tap into the positive Survivor Instincts, the skills you master to survive, to get by, to live each day, for you to be here today.

You had to adapt to live and function in at least two worlds.

The first world adapting to the power and adapting to constant mode changes of your sexual predator violated – if you lived with your predator - instinctively figured how the sound of your predator's footsteps the mode he was in, you learned how to become small and try your best to become invisible.

If your predator was your coach, clergy, teacher, or family member who was violating you, you braced yourself for these encounters, how others praised this individual, watching his smile and knowing behind all those smiles and power is a monster who is trying to destroy you.

The second world – life away from your sexual predator, you learn how to speak differently, if your able to look others in the eye, you can smile, but you have this able to sniff a room, identify those who are potentially dangers and have the freedom to walk away

This program will teach you how to maximum your survival instincts and use them not only to heal but in your everyday life.

 A great example of one of the nation's leading civil rights leader Mrs. Rosa Park. In 1931 a white man attempted to rape her she fought him off but never forgot that feeling of someone trying to steal her virginity.

This was her motivation in 1943, twelve years before Rosa Parks' famous protest movement she started by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery bus in 1955, she worked at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

She worked in rural Alabama on behalf of black men who were falsely accused of raping white women and black women raped by white men.

Imagine, there were no cell phones, most black families did not have telephones in their homes, or reliable means of transportation.

But there she was fighting for their rights, enduring threats to her life, and still she carried on her fight.

Imagine the power of this woman!!!!

The Montgomery Bus Strike is often hailed as the beginning of Martin Luther King becoming the spokesman for Civil Rights Movement.

The real power behind the Civil Rights Movement was Mrs. Rosa Parks and the underestimated and devalued often silenced African American women who depended on  the busses to transport them to their jobs as domestic workers simply refused to ride the buses, they walked in all forms of weather as their protest.  

The back story, which is seldom discussed, for years African American women were terrorized on those buses, the bus drivers beat them, slapped them, threw them off the bus and sexual violated them.

These women, said NO, the most powerful word in any language, to riding on buses where they were subjected to violence. 

These are the same women who were the mothers and grandmothers of the children of the Civil Rights movements who withstood the water hosing, attacked by dogs, and police beatings.

We will discuss Rosa Parks and Native American and Indigenous women, Asian women, and other immigrant women who broke the silence of sexual violence, trusted in, and acted on their survival instincts and became advocates for social justice of sexual violence and the economics of sexual violence.