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21. Sahiyo highlights programs intern for scholarship win
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... Economics, and Arabic. While working at Sahiyo she has helped to organize many dynamic webinars, including Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing After FGC, Art, Activism, and Healing: In ...
Created on 08 March 2021
22. Your questions answered: Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing After Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
 Last fall Sahiyo partnered with three award-winning and talented speakers Farzana Doctor, Sarian Karim-Kamara, and Joanna Vergoth to host Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing After Female ...
Created on 01 February 2021
23. Dear Maasi: Where do I begin with psychotherapy after undergoing khatna?
(News & Blog)
... I am a psychotherapist—I found psychotherapy very helpful in working through my own khatna-related emotional and sexual trauma. None of my psychotherapists had heard about khatna, or had been trained ...
Created on 14 January 2021
24. Art, Activism, and Healing webinar: In Conversation Around Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... and Emotional Healing, the speakers will first introduce their work and their personal journeys related to this subject and then we will have a question and answer session led by Sahiyo co-founder Mariya ...
Created on 08 January 2021
25. Sahiyo Resources
(Resources)
... Emotional Healing After Female Genital Cutting Sahiyo partnered with three award winning and multi-talented speakers Farzana Doctor, Sarian Karim-Kamara, and Joanna Vergoth. Hear from these speakers ...
Created on 04 December 2020
26. Digital advocacy: The future of activism for survivors and activists
(News & Blog)
... respectively. In contrast to the physical mobilization of masses in protests, picketing, and policy-based activism, storytelling is a distinctly emotional and psychological mobilization. I remember watching ...
Created on 10 November 2020
27. A Reflection on Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing After Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... and Emotional Healing After Female Genital Cutting (FGC). During this webinar, we had the opportunity to hear from these speakers about the mental and emotional consequences of FGC, how FGC can impact ...
Created on 02 November 2020
28. From Saving Safa to Seven: How authors use writing to shed light on FGC
(News & Blog)
... will speak about her work and activism at the Sahiyo webinar, Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing After FGC, on October 22nd, at 12 noon. Expert panelists Joanna Vergoth and Sarian Karim-Kamara ...
Created on 08 October 2020
29. Dear Maasi: "Should I tell my new partner about my experience with khatna?
(News & Blog)
... #2: When our loved ones understand how a trauma can trigger us emotionally, physically or sexually, they can be better allies in our healing.  Here’s an example: Once in a while a certain kind of touch ...
Created on 13 September 2020
30. Upcoming webinar: Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing After FGC
(News & Blog)
 By Cate Cox Female genital cutting (FGC) often comes with a multitude of physical and psychological issues that can impact sexual functioning for many survivors. Yet, oftentimes too little attention ...
Created on 04 September 2020
31. Trauma and Female Genital Cutting, Part 4: Psycho-sexual functioning
(News & Blog)
... of biological, physiological, psychological, sociocultural and interpersonal factors that contribute to a combined experience of physical, emotional and relational satisfaction. Nevertheless, symptoms ...
Created on 05 July 2018
32. Art: A Tool for Healing and Dialogue with Communities Affected by FGM
(News & Blog)
... one another. Art can heal emotional wounds through the creation of meaning-making and metaphor. This year as a German Chancellor Fellow through the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and under the guidance ...
Created on 30 May 2016
33. Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing Part 2 (2021-11-17)
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Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing Part 2 Last October, Sahiyo hosted a webinar called Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing After Famel Genital Cutting.  On November ...
Created on 29 November 2021
34. Reflecting on Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing After Female Genital Cutting Part 2
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On November 17th, Sahiyo hosted part two of the ‘Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing After Female Genital Cutting’ webinar. Two specialist speakers helped to lead the webinar: Haddi Ceesey, ...
Created on 15 December 2021
35. Upcoming Webinar: Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing Part 2
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By Amela Tokić Last October, Sahiyo hosted a webinar called Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing After Female Genital Cutting. This provided an opportunity to hear from three inspirational ...
Created on 01 November 2021
36. Your questions answered: Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing After Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
 Last fall Sahiyo partnered with three award-winning and talented speakers Farzana Doctor, Sarian Karim-Kamara, and Joanna Vergoth to host Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing After Female ...
Created on 01 February 2021
37. A Reflection on Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing After Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... and Emotional Healing After Female Genital Cutting (FGC). During this webinar, we had the opportunity to hear from these speakers about the mental and emotional consequences of FGC, how FGC can impact ...
Created on 02 November 2020
38. Upcoming webinar: Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing After FGC
(News & Blog)
 By Cate Cox Female genital cutting (FGC) often comes with a multitude of physical and psychological issues that can impact sexual functioning for many survivors. Yet, oftentimes too little attention ...
Created on 04 September 2020
39. Healing from Khatna with EMDR
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... this is not achieved, for example, because of the lack of emotional support in childhood to help integrate these experiences, or validation, reparation, or acknowledgment from the external world, parents, ...
Created on 24 September 2024
40. Healing as Activism: One cannot give from an empty cup
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By Anonymous Emotional burnout looms over my head like my very own Sword of Damocles, waiting to strike me down for being woefully human. But the above saying travels with me, like my shield against ...
Created on 27 November 2022
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