Help Abbey Norton Build a Healing Practice for CSA Survivors

Hi everyone -

My name is Abbey Norton and I am a psychic, dancer, LMT, energy healer, and childhood sexual abuse survivor. I have been on a journey of personal healing for a few years now, which has led me to recover memories of childhood sexual abuse. My memories resurfaced after years of following my heart and attempting to reconnect with my body and my authentic self while dealing with chronic dissociation. My journey started with opening up my intuition and discovering I was psychic, to applying & attending massage therapy school, to reconnecting with my passion for dancing, to unconsciously-led movement outdoors, to opening up energy work in my body, and finally to my first memory surfacing and realizing I am a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.

I want to offer my gifts and a safe, nurturing environment to other survivors to aid them in the process of reconnecting with their authentic self, outside of the lens of shame that stems from the abuse. Healing from childhood sexual abuse is an immense struggle that cannot be done alone. We all heal together. I want to provide survivors with a space where they can connect with themselves, their memories, each other, a Higher Power, and the promise of unconditional love.

My practice will include all of the skills I developed while on my own journey of healing - intuition, unconscious movement, imagination, healing touch, and most of all, love and hope. It can feel hard for survivors of childhood sexual abuse to connect with people who do not understand their experience. Healing from childhood sexual abuse is a unique journey - the healing lies in the connection to other survivors first and foremost. I hold the space not only as a healer, but as a fellow survivor.

Being on a quest for my first memories led me out of work and into a lot of debt. Due to burnout, I wasn't able to work for over a year. I need help raising money for this practice so I can offer my gifts to the community in which they belong: with childhood sexual abuse survivors, to help them connect with their authentic selves, to guide with love and hope. This is not only for them - I need this for myself, too. I need to heal in community. I need to connect with survivors in order to reconnect with my authentic self.

I trust in the power and the beauty of following your heart - I've been doing this for over a year now, and it finally led me here, to what feels so truly to be my life's work. I need your help gathering the financial support that will open up the doors for me, in order to offer healing services to my community, childhood sexual abuse survivors.

As a fellow survivor tells me, survivors are "gifted, wounded angels." We all are gifted, wounded angels. I am grateful to be a survivor.