The Brave Project
Reclaim Your Brilliance from Sexual Violence.
Sexual violence is a violation of the soul. While many people have had some form of mental, emotional, even physical healing, few people know or understand how to heal the soul. Most sexual violence survivors live but never reclaim their own light, passion or life or take back their power.
I know. Because I was this person too.
Hi, I'm Tonya Whittle, creator of The Brave Project, author of Unchained where I detail my own journey to true healing from sexual abuse as an adult.
I was like most survivors. I put it behind me. I said it didn't change me or impact me and that I WAS FINE. I didn't think about it. I put it away where it belonged. I refused to be a statistic. I created a life that was as far away from someone who had been abused could get it.
Until my abuser died and my past met my present.
I was catpulated into a life of denial, of running, of being strong on the surface to protect myself in all the ways I knew how.
I was alive and surviving but I was not living. I was proving myself. Pushing myself relentlessly, driving myself to be successful.
Because if I could be perfect, the cracks wouldn't be visible and no one would know.
Not only was that not the truth, but I was working 18-20 hour days, I had no life outside of work and didn't know how to function outside push, high drive.
I was in trauma mode all the time. And this moment of impact led me to facing the past, stop running from it and truly heal so I could embrace the woman I was and create the life I really wanted, not one I was too scared to live.
Despite all the therapies, all the CBT, Trauma counselling, there was simply part of me missing. I knew all the right things to say, but there was a part of me that was simply - gone. Untouchable. Not accessible.
Facing my past became also facing that sexual abuse is a violation of the soul. And mindset and cognitive functoning can't heal the soul.
This led me on a true spiritual journey, not religion (please don't confuse the two) but a deep inner excavation of my most authentic self, a deep healing of the wounds I was carrying and a restoration of my own soul.
It was only then, I truly felt healed, and only then my mindset, emotional and cognitive work could in fact work and be used to help me in my everyday life.
It took ancient wisdom and soul work to heal me. And I knew then I wanted to share this with others. For too many of us struggle in silence acting each day as if we are ok, while, pushing ourselves to create and do and live normal.
When we feel anything but normal.
The Brave Project
is a free course Healing The Spirit from Sexual Violence to bring awareness, knowledge, support, healing to people struggling to feel fully alive or healed from sexual violence.
This isn't a therapy program. It won't replace therapy.
But this course offers insight, information, education, knowledge about a healing modality that few know about and that I believe is a missing link for true healing, not just of sexual violence survivors but all trauma survivors.
When we experience a traumatic event, we often "split" or dissociate from ourselves.
You never feel "right" or "whole" again. In modern therapy we call disassocation.
In ancient wisdom and shamanic practises we call this soul loss.
How to know if you've experienced soul loss:
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