Our meetings follow the ASCA (Adult Survivors of Child Abuse) format (www.ascasupport.org). To quote the Survivor to Thriver manual: 'The purpose of ASCA meetings is to allow survivors to share their abuse and recovery experiences, to receive support and affirmation for their recovery efforts; to try out new, more adaptive behaviors and, in so doing, to better understand themselves and their recovery process.' This is a peer support group not a therapy group and is for abuse survivors only. For …

We are a community based support group following the Adult Survivors of Child Abuse (ASCA) program developed by the Morris Center (ascasupport.org) in San Francisco. This is a peer support group and not a therapy or counseling group. It is also for adult abuse survivors only, who are not currently perpetrating abuse on others. "The purpose of ASCA meetings is to allow survivors to share their abuse and recovery experiences, to receive support and affirmation for their recovery efforts; to t …

TRE - Releasing toxic, trapped energy So why shaking?  Shaking is nature’s release valve for your body to get rid of trapped energy, stress, tension, and traumas.  When someone is in a car accident the body absorbs all that energy from the impact and then they will shake, it’s natures way to release all the energy.  You’ll notice the same thing happens if someone is really stressed, really scared or really angry or really afraid or tense you’ll see the same shaking response because the body is a …