READING (PA)
Reading Eagle
May 3, 2019
By Karen L. Chandler
Caroline Culverhouse may be in the business of healing, but her life’s journey created a need to seek healing for both herself and others.
Co-founder of the #MetooBerks Movement, Culverhouse, Alsace Township, is a psychotherapist, yoga and meditation instructor, transformational group process facilitator and Health & Wellness columnist.
She spoke about her own trauma and healing at a speaking event at the Reading Area Community College Miller Center for the Arts in late March, one of a series of free workshops.
The #MetooBerks Movement was founded to provide Berks County community members who identify as sexually transgressed, objectified or abused with a free opportunity for healing, awareness and empowerment.
Telling the story of sexual assault inflicted on her by a massage therapist during a recent trip to New York with her husband is visibly difficult for Culverhouse.
“I did not and could not say no,” she said. “I felt violated and ashamed. How could someone who helps others deal with trauma let this happen to me?”
Culverhouse explains that after the incident she immediately began to practice trauma-releasing exercises that she designed herself and reported the assault to the authorities before moving into deep meditation to gain understanding of what occurred.
She believes her meditation called her to action to go home to Berks County and start #MetooBerks.
“For me, #Metoo does not begin and end in New York City,” Culverhouse said.
Culverhouse provides more background to the traumatic event in her column on Page 4 this issue.
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