Healing through Spirituality and Writing with Emily Bernath

Healing through Spirituality and Writing with Emily Bernath

From RAFT by RAFT: Indrani Goradia, Alyce Jurgensen, Jeremie Miller, Amy Jaffe

February 27, 2025 · 1h 15m · Season 1

About this episode

Emily Bernath shares her survivor story and discusses how spirituality and writing helped her heal.

In this episode, the RAFT team is joined by survivor, author, and advocate Emily Bernath. She shares her survivor story, how she healed through spirituality, and how that led to her book series, Broken Lenses. Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions about sexual violence and assault, including personal survivor experiences. We encourage you to prioritize your well-being while listening. Episode Time Codes 00:00 Intro 00:25 Trigger Warning 00:55 Gratitudes 05:00 Who is Emily Bernath? 06:55 How Emily’s writing started 09:30 Emily discusses levels of healing through her advocacy journey 15:15 “How do you know that it’s love?” — How did you know who to trust through this journey 16:15 “Coincidences don’t just happen” – Emily speaks about faith leading her journey 19:10 “Freedom brings healing” 21:10 “The world hasn’t given survivors a lot of hope to report” 21:30 How Emily knew she was being sexually assaulted 23:15 “As soon as a survivor comes to me – the one thing I can not do is nothing” 25:38 Emily shares how she found her trust in her faith 33:05 “What do you…

People in this episode

Guest: Emily Bernath

Topics covered

  • spirituality
  • healing
  • writing
  • survivor stories
  • advocacy

Keywords

  • sexual violence
  • assault
  • Broken Lenses
  • faith
  • trust

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Broken Lenses

Books & works: Healing through Spirituality and Writing, Broken Lenses

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