Reshaping Trauma Through Somatic, Creative and Heart-Centered Approaches with Atira Tan
As the CEO and Founding Director of Art to Healing, Atira Tan has spent nearly two decades supporting countless trauma survivors, including women and children who have faced the horrors of child sex slavery. In this episode, Atira shares the origins of her work in trauma intervention and the deeply personal story behind her mission to uplift survivors. Her commitment to liberating women from repression and cultivating direct healing is evident, as she confronts the urgent need to reshape societal narratives that perpetuate imbalances.
Listen in as she dives into the transformative alliance between plant medicine, somatic practices and art as potent forces for healing and growth. She reveals that these natural remedies hold the key to unlocking psychological defenses and establishing a connection with the subconscious. You will learn about the defensive strategy of retreating into one's mind as a response to life's overwhelming challenges and how plant medicine can help liberate you from this mental refuge and re-engage you with the present moment.
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What You’ll Learn in Today’s Episode:
Where Atira’s desire to support trauma survivors came from.
The value in creating safe places for survivors to be able to heal.
The importance of being an advocate for yourself.
How we can help bring direct healing to women.
The first steps we can take as a community to help women overcome repression.
How Atira is helping women transform pain into power.
How plant medicine can help us peal back the defensive psychological layers.
The power of art therapy and how this can help those with a trauma imprint.
Ideas Worth Sharing:
“Sometimes you have to move through the layers of pain in order to find that connection to your blueprint. This process is not always easy, but it can be necessary.” - Atira Tan
“Through the intelligence of these plants, our defensive psychological layers can start to soften and connect us to things that were unconscious. That is so powerful in the journey of healing.” - Atira Tan
“Often, women internalize abuse that happens to them. However, through expressive arts, when they are able to externalize what has happened to them, they can acknowledge that the issue is separate from them. This allows them to change the relationship they have with that issue and allows them to reclaim who they are without the trauma.” - Atira Tan
