075: Marlee Liss on Restorative Justice for Sexual Assault
Marlee Liss joins us this week to share her personal experience of sexual assault and the events that occured to conluding her case with restorative justice; a form of reconciliation that focuses on repair, rather than punishment.
Episode Notes
Marlee Liss is a women’s embodied love coach and Founder of Re-Humanize, an organization focused on uplifting cultural standards of empathy. Marlee has shared her story of restorative justice for sexual violence, the first of what will hopefully soon be many, in Canada, across major platforms such as Forbes, Huff Post, Buzzfeed, Mel Robbins Show and more.
In this episode we discuss:
Restorative justice as a means of preventing the retraumatization of victims
Marlee’s personal experience with sexual assault
Why most assault victims don’t report it
What marlee did immediately after her assault
How the traditional justice system falls short
Getting your assailant to agree to go to therapy
Working in sacred sensuality after sexual assault
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