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Back on October 25, 2023, MenHealing continued the tradition set in 2022 of Recognizing that day as Male Survivor Awareness Day to coincide with the month of October’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month. While they planned their own event, Drew Boa of Husband Material and I thought it would be good to again set up another live event this year, after doing a similar event for 2022. This included par...

Back on October 25, 2023, MenHealing continued the tradition set in 2022 of Recognizing that day as Male Survivor Awareness Day to coincide with the month of October’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month. While they planned their own event, Drew Boa of Husband Material and I thought it would be good to again set up another live event this year, after doing a similar event for 2022. This included par...

In honor of Male Survivor Awareness Day 2026 (October 25th annually), we have a panel of 3 prior guests for an honest conversation about trauma-related flashbacks and nightmares. The panel shares personal experiences with somatic and visual flashbacks, triggers, night terrors, and dissociation, and discusses how therapy and support can help. They explore practical ways to ground and process diffic...

Dean Sikes is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, and since January of 1993, Dean Sikes has been on the road, communicating words of hope in high schools, Teen Challenge Centers, churches and prisons across America and in nations of the world. To date, he’s spoken at over four thousand four hundred events, sharing the YOU MATTER message with millions of people. In addition to an active road outr...

Dean Sikes is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, and since January of 1993, Dean Sikes has been on the road, communicating words of hope in high schools, Teen Challenge Centers, churches and prisons across America and in nations of the world. To date, he’s spoken at over four thousand four hundred events, sharing the YOU MATTER message with millions of people. In addition to an active road outr...

Dr. Dave Janvier is a licensed therapist, certified sex therapist, trauma & somatic specialist, spiritual director and founder of SIIMDA Soul Care, a trauma-informed healing modality that integrates faith, psychology, neuroscience and spiritual formation. Dr. Dave operates a private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania providing clinical and spiritual companionship to those struggling with a varie...

Dr. Dave Janvier is a licensed therapist, certified sex therapist, trauma & somatic specialist, spiritual director and founder of SIIMDA Soul Care, a trauma-informed healing modality that integrates faith, psychology, neuroscience and spiritual formation. Dr. Dave operates a private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania providing clinical and spiritual companionship to those struggling with a varie...

Dominique (Dom) Benninger is a technologist, researcher, and institutional accountability advocate based in Pennsylvania. A survivor of the high-control college group known as the Narrowgate Fellowship, Dom has spent years documenting how spiritual manipulation, psychological coercion, and authoritarian control operate within religious communities. After later blowing the whistle on a convicted pr...

Dominique (Dom) Benninger is a technologist, researcher, and institutional accountability advocate based in Pennsylvania. A survivor of the high-control college group known as the Narrowgate Fellowship, Dom has spent years documenting how spiritual manipulation, psychological coercion, and authoritarian control operate within religious communities. After later blowing the whistle on a convicted pr...

Dominique (Dom) Benninger is a technologist, researcher, and institutional accountability advocate based in Pennsylvania. A survivor of the high-control college group known as the Narrowgate Fellowship, Dom has spent years documenting how spiritual manipulation, psychological coercion, and authoritarian control operate within religious communities. After later blowing the whistle on a convicted pr...