‘Telling is healing’: New audio-video podcast gives voice to survivors of sexual violence

Donna Jenson used to harbor a horrible secret. She couldn’t tell anyone that her father was sexually abusing her. She didn’t even want to acknowledge it herself. It took decades before she could reckon with the abuse privately, let alone speak publicly about it. But now, she’s helping other survivors amplify their own paths to healing. Jenson, a survivor of incest and longtime advocate for survivors of sexual violence, will launch a new audio-video podcast, “Healing Conversations,” on Sunday, Nov. 18, a date she chose because the Hebrew word for the number 18 is the same as the word for “life.” She will release four episodes on the day the show debuts, then once a month after that for a total of 15 episodes. The podcast will feature one-on-one conversations between Jenson and other survivors of sexual violence. She asks them to say what they survived in one sentence.

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