What could it be?
What can it be? What’s this things potential? It’s truly not hubris when I say I think this thing can be big… because nobody gives a rats ass about people who survive the pain of abuse. There’s a massive gap in the world of trauma therapy. Firstly, its expensive. Yeah that little light bar they use to help process traumatic memories, costs a cool three hundo. The trainings that certify us to treat trauma? THOUSANDS. So affordability is really a place to focus. Now that creates a problem… since this world is expensive to live in, I can’t provide everybody with cheap therapy. I need to eat and keep a roof over my cats heads, so what the hell do I do? Take insurance? Well no… I’m not trying to sell my soul to an insurance company that is only gonna give me $60 for a session. I’d rather solve this problem creatively…
Okay so here’s my thought. I have a nonprofit that I registered in my last year of school. I did it because at the time I had an inkling that I was going to want to start one. I watched insurance fail to pay therapists over and over and over and over. I watched bosses work therapists to the bone. I watched people charge clients hundreds of dollars for care that was NECESSARY. Nobody chooses to be a survivor of something horrific. This care is needed and nobody wants to make it accessible. So I’m gonna fund this therapy with donations and grants.
For starters, I can do this because I myself am insane. I am delusional enough to believe I’m gonna do this and succeed. Also I happen to have set myself up quite nicely. Ya see when I was an undergraduate student I decided to apply for some crazy writing program that teaches you how to write professionally. So I learned how to grant write… and I applied for grants for various businesses and nonprofits… and I got those grants for those people. So I got that goin for me.
Also I have a giant studio with my best friend and business partner. She’s a yoga teacher! So we got a yoga teacher! Also that woman loves a fundraiser so there’s that.
Finally… what do I want this nonprofit to do? Well it’s gonna be a trauma survivor network. It’s going to be a place you can go to find therapy, doctors, psychiatry, community support, businesses, etc. All of these things must align with the ethics of trauma awareness and trauma-focused care.
So if you need to know a safe place to get therapy, medical attention, hell even a tattoo… you can go to our network/directory and find one.
Alright let’s watch me turn this into a reality
* cracks knuckles *