Sarah Stauffer

Hello Everyone!!

I wrote for Bella Online previously, serving as Human Rights editor for about a year. I love my family. My husband is a chef and I am an artist and future massage therapist. I love art, photography, music, yoga, and mochas. I create intuitive art cards and paintings, called Bella Boheme. I also write. We moved to North Carolina this summer and we love it. I am originally a southern girl, from New Orleans.

I am a mama on a healing journey. I am a sexual abuse, incest, rape, parental abandonment, and emotional abuse survivor but more than that, I am a strong, courageous, fiercely loving, loved, lovable thriver! I hope to help people in need of emotional healing from trauma through art and soul warmth and massage therapy once I am certified. My children and husband are the most important gifts in my life, having children inspires me to want to be as nurturing a woman and mother as possible. I am all about where we can go beyond survivorhood.

My healing journey has led me to have a different perception of life, of my life, of my abuse, of your abuse, of what it means to not only be victimized, to cross the river into survivorhood, but to THRIVE.

Although life can have many times of bliss, even after horrific trauma. I mean creating a healed life, crawling into the darkest caverns of pain and grief, rebirthing ourselves, finding our true essence, de-brainwashing ourselves from all the crap we absorbed from the abuse, and letting that inborn light we all have fill us again. This is the way it came to me. I am here to share it with you! As a parent who has struggled in the past with post traumatic stress disorder, I see an enormous need for ideas, support, and honest feedback on the subject. One out of three girls and one out of five boys are being abused as children. Many people endure both covert and overt abuse in life, with post traumatic stress disorder being the result. Whether warring at home or in another country, children are growing up traumatized, then having children of their own. Parenting brings the gift of healing, but the paradox is that being triggered as a parent can feel like rewounding. This when misunderstood can contribute to serious problems for both parent and child. I wish to provide compassion and hope for anyone who is a parent with PTSD. Namaste.