About Restoration
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We are capable of much more than just "getting over" trauma. And we are not powerless to overcome the impact of sex abuse. Our power lies in being restored to our authentic identity.Restoration provides a framework to accomplish a new level of healing. By identifying misaligned beliefs and exchanging them for empowering truths, the victim of trauma reclaims the power to become all she was created capable of being.The four ranges of restoration provide a pathway to reconnect to ones authentic self and thus reconnect to your world.In the book, Beyond Recovery to Restoration, the Restoration Ranges: Refugee, Overcoming, Conquering, Identity are defined, belief structures and obstacles exposed, and therapeutic approches provided.
Foundational Principles of Restoration1. Restoration is about finding the beliefs the victim has about herself and her world as a result of the abuse. It is not about memory retrieval. Focus on memories can be re-victimization and does not touch the deep impact of trauma.2. Restoration is about self awareness. When the victim learns what is going on inside, she can make change from the inside out. That is where change really happens.3. An exchange of belief systems is required. The victim must give up old ways of thinking and doing.4. Personal power is found under the misbeliefs in reconnecting to authentic identity.5. Teach missed developmental skills. Download the FREE pdf file of the book!
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Rebecca Born, MSW
Seeing the lack of resources for assisting victims of sex abuse, Rebecca envisioned and birthed a center to meet the long-term needs evidenced in the impact of the trauma. At Connections: A Safe Place, victims of sex abuse invited her into their journey and from them she learned of the needs for restoration.Rebecca is an accomplished and passionate speaker and lives in Cincinnati, OH.Rachel Davis, MSAs co-founder of Connections, Rachel is dedicated to assisting victims of sex abuse to reconnect to their authentic selves and has the knack for discerning a lesson from songs, quotes and art. Rachel is an artist working in oil paints and hand thrown potter. She resides in Cincinnati. OH. Together Rebecca and Rachel designed the Restoration program and authored all materials.
Portfolio - Nature
- Animal
- People
- Fashion
Material Categories
Nature Beyond Recovery To Restoration
Traditional recovery models are based on the premise that if you admit powerlessness over the substance or behavior that is controlling
your life, you have a key to freedom from it.
In Restoration we acknowledge the behavior and assign to ourselves the power to change the compulsion that drives the behavior. How? By identifying the belief system or power behind the drive and make appropriate adjustments to align ourselves to healthy thinking.
Recovery provides freedom.
Restoration provides liberty.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Why a New Paradigm
Chapter Two: Changing our Language
Chapter Three: Refugee Range
Description of a refugee
Belief Systems
Emotions
Obstacles and Therapeutic Strategies
Core Tasks
Activity Examples
Chapter Four: Overcoming
(Same breakdown as for Refugee)
Chapter Five: Conquering
(Same breakdown as for Refugee)
Chapter Six: Identity
(Same breakdown as for Refugee)
Chapter Seven: Connections
Appendix
Animal 
Breakthrough!
These 26 lessons are designed to break through the surface of the behaviors and emotions that adolescent girls present in order to help them understand:
Why they do the things they do Why they feel the things the do and Why they need the things they need Each participant is challenged to explore their individual realities. The focus is not to give them a new skill, the goal is to facilitate self-awareness that ultimately empowers the teen to believe in her capabilities. Each activity provides a lesson plan, all worksheets and everything you need! People Sample Activity
Where is She Taking Her Heart
Discovery!
The material is presented in a non-traditional manner that disrupts thinking patterns. and creates opportunity for self discovery.
By filling in worksheets and doing the simple projects, participants uncover inner belief systems, thought patterns and emotions. This new inner knowledge provides opportunity to make changes from the inside out that result in outer behavior change.
Each of the 27 activites include a lesson plan and all the worksheets needed.
Where is she taking her heart? _______________________
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Has she ever allowed her heart to be there? Why or why not? _______________________________________________
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What are her plans to keep her heart safe? _____________
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What has she learned in the past that can help her now?____________________________________________
Fashion 
Table of Contents
Introduction - Defining a Hero
Chapter One - Unmasking a Hero
Detour One - On the Right Path
Chapter Two - A Hero's Stand
Detour Two - No Loitering
Chapter Three - The Call to Adventure
Detour Three - On the Right Path
Chapter Four - Caller I.D.
Chapter Five - Road of Trials/Preparing for the Journey
Pit Stop - Core
Detour Four - Understanding the load you carry
Chapter Six - Road of Trials/Rugged Terrain
Chapter Seven - Traveling companions
Detour Five - Face to Face with our enemies
Chapter Eight - Belly of the Whale
Chapter Nine - The Great Hunt
Chapter Ten - The Transformed Hero
Chapter Eleven - A Hero Returns
A Hero's Quest
An experience of self-discovery for men overcoming sexual abuse and other trauma.
Using the Star Wars IV: A New Hope film, The Quest uses the elements of a hero's journey to develop the self awareness necessry to overcoming trauma. Our definiton of a hero is someone who exchanges one way of doing things for another.
The Quest and it's elements can be a useful tool in looking at and understanding each of the unhealthy ways one has employed to manage trauma.
Like all our materials, the creative fill in the blank worksheets propel the participant into new understandings of self with the goal of changing from the inside out.
