"Healthy Sexuality After Abuse" with Tabitha Westbrook, LMFT, LCMHC, LPC

About this episode

The episode features a conversation on healthy sexuality after abuse with therapist Tabitha Westbrook.

This week, Dan and Rachael sit down with therapist, trauma care specialist, and NFTC® Alumni Tabitha Westbrook for a tender and important conversation on healthy sexuality after abuse. In a space where many questions remain unspoken, this episode brings language to the shame, confusion, and longing so many carry in silence. With honesty and depth, their conversation offers a grounded invitation toward healing, one that honors the complexity of your story and the goodness of your body. This episode engages the topic of sexual abuse and sexuality, and includes mature language. Listener discretion is advised. About the Allender Center Podcast: For over a decade, the Allender Center Podcast has offered honest, thoughtful conversations about the deep work of healing and transformation. Hosted by Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen, MDiv, this weekly podcast explores the complexities of trauma, abuse recovery, story, relationships, and spiritual formation. Through questions submitted by listeners, stories, interviews, and conversations, we engage the deep places of heartache and hope that are rarely addressed so candidly in our culture today. Join the Allender Center Podcast to…

People in this episode

Hosts: Dan Allender, Rachael Clinton Chen

Guest: Tabitha Westbrook

Topics covered

• healthy sexuality
• abuse recovery
• trauma care
• shame
• healing

Keywords

• sexuality
• abuse
• trauma
• healing
• shame
• confusion
• longing

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Organizations: The Allender Center

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