by Sarah Beaulieu | Feb 10, 2014 | Pregnancy, Parenting, and Birth
In the wake of the birth of my second child, I feel compelled to write about my experience in real-time, which is something I don’t typically do. Birth is raw and messy, and my feelings about it are still raw and messy, made more so by the hormones and sleep...
by Sarah Beaulieu | Feb 7, 2014 | Pregnancy, Parenting, and Birth
When I gave birth to my son, I had no idea that birth could be traumatic. And as a survivor of sexual violence – even one who had spent 15 years healing – I went into pregnancy and birth without the knowledge and awareness I needed to make empowered decisions to...
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by Sarah Beaulieu | Feb 4, 2014 | Pregnancy, Parenting, and Birth
I’d bet you a million dollars that if you ask happily married couples in their seventies or eighties to describe the easiest phase of their marriage, that none of them would wax poetic about the time when their kids were in diapers. At least this is what I tell myself...
by Sarah Beaulieu | Oct 29, 2013 | College Students
In the wake of negative media coverage for colleges and universities being sued under Title IX, a number of institutions of higher education are announcing new hires in sexual assault prevention. These hires are receiving media attention, and there is no doubt that...
by Sarah Beaulieu | Oct 25, 2013 | Sexual Violence in the News
Trauma has been in the news lately. We just passed the 6-month anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing, the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting in Aurora, and ongoing coverage of returning veterans facing PTSD, so there has been extensive coverage about...
