The past several days have been joyfully FULL. Thursday night, I lead a workshop in Denver at the Freyja Project for CRAVEfuel (Stylish Women Entrepreneurs) about Fueling Your Creative Rampage. I opened with pranayama, shared part of my story of my journey to wellness, provided nutrition and lifestyle tips and techniques, then closed out with a lovely vibration-raising [...]
Today, RIGHT NOW, the Military Justice Improvement Act is on the Senate floor. I received the following schedule from one of Senator Gillibrand's staff members: The military sexual assault time agreement will be executed on Thursday, 6 March 2014 - there will be up to four votes, beginning at around 2pm.- Roll call vote on the motion [...]
The debate continues about whether the historic reforms offered by the Military Justice Improvement Act will be fulfilled. Cheers to Senator Gillibrand for her continued efforts, as well as the efforts of the supporting Senators, to create a more judicially sound environment in which some felony level cases - such as rape - can be [...]
Summary: Members of Congress are unlikely to adopt one measure that many victims say is essential: taking away from commanders the ability to decide whether to pursue assault cases. Members of Congress say that step would undermine order and discipline in the ranks, and the Pentagon agrees. You can listen to the full 4min 15sec [...]
(the screen-shot images are hyperlinked to the video) Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I gotta be honest, folks. I was SUPER nervous about this interview for some reason on Sunday and felt like I had serious brain fog all weekend. (Plus Mara was talking [...]
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I just discovered that NBC Nightly News repurposed parts of our interview a couple weeks ago (from an interview about a month ago). I was glad to see that they showed more of my response, though, because 1. It doesn't make sense to [...]
An excerpt from Maureen Dowd's article titled "Cut the Strings to George III:" The brass agreed there was a “cancer” in the military, but their rigid, nonsensical response boiled down to: Trust us. We’ll fix the system, even though we don’t really believe it’s broken. They were unanimously resistant to the shift that several of [...]
First and foremost, thank you to Anu Bhagwati and all of the staff at Service Women's Action Network who afforded me the opportunity to speak out. Also, thank you to Nancy Redd for running a compassionate interview and Troian Bellisario for her questions and sincere care to learn more about the realities of this crime. [...]
Ever wonder why I'm so motivated to do what I do? Well, I'll give you a short answer for now. I care so deeply about helping people heal from physical, mental, and spiritual stress and trauma because I know how crippling it can be to suffer. It's not about me anymore, though. It's about YOU. [...]
On 1 August 2012, I was honored to be a guest on the Dr. Laura Ciel radio show, On the Edge of Exceptional. You can listen to segments 1 and 2 of the show and/or see more on my press page at http://www.SemperSarah.com/media. Below, you can read a bit of our “Q&A” session. These were [...]
