Treating Trauma - 015 - "Stories of Healing" with Montanna Christoffersen

<p><span class="TextRun SCXW247072417 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang= "EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW247072417 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle= "text-align-left" data-ccp-parastyle-defn= "{"ObjectId":"6686ba25-024e-458b-8587-1752f472973f|8","ClassId":1073872969,"Properties":[469775450,"text-align-left",201340122,"2",134233614,"true",469778129,"text-align-left",335572020,"1",469777841,"Times New Roman",469777842,"Times New Roman",469777843,"Times New Roman",469777844,"Times New Roman",469769226,"Times New Roman",268442635,"24",134233118,"true",134233117,"true",469778324,"Normal"]}"> This week, we invite Montanna Christoffersen to share her healing journey with us. In this conversation, we examine the importance of really, truly revealing yourself to another</span> <span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW247072417 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle= "text-align-left">to</span> <span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW247072417 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle= "text-align-left">inaugurate the process of</span> <span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW247072417 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle= "text-align-left">healing. Montanna</span> <span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW247072417 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle= "text-align-left">describes that the moment she finally allowed herself to be seen was</span> <span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW247072417 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle= "text-align-left">only</span> <span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW247072417 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle= "text-align-left">the beginning of the journey, and that life on the other side o</span><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW247072417 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle= "text-align-left">f Milestones has encouraged her to help destigmatize the notion of “residential treatment” so that people might unders</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW247072417 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="text-align-left">tand that healing is possible inside a safe environment like Milestones. Her hope is that we might reframe this environment as a beautiful place, or as she describes it, “a cocoon of healing.”</span></span><span class