Survivor Spotlight: Amber Higgins

SURVIVOR SPOTLIGHT

Amber Higgins

Survivor

Amber Higgins is a survivor of child sexual abuse, a speaker, and a domestic violence center advocate who is dedicated to empowering other survivors. Abused by her best friend’s dad, Amber worked with law enforcement to secure a confession from her abuser, who was sentenced to prison. Today, Amber is committed to ensuring that survivors feel heard, validated, and supported in their healing journey.

Healing Journal

A healing journal is a way for survivors of sexual abuse to explore their thoughts and ideas and has proven to help with healing and recovery.

Trauma-Informed Yoga

Regular yoga is a physical and mental practice that typically focuses on improving flexibility, strength, and balance through various poses and breathing techniques. It may involve some mindfulness practices, but it is not necessarily designed to address the specific needs and concerns of individuals who have experienced trauma.

Tip Sheets

Tips for Child Sexual Abuse Survivors Who are Parents

You Are Not Broken – Child sexual abuse is far more prevalent than most people realize. If you were harmed as a child, that does not mean you will be a parent…

Sharing Your Story: A Guide on Speaking Publicly on Child Sexual Abuse

Often, survivors of sexual assault do not speak out about their experiences, sometimes due to feelings of shame, guilt, or self-blame. Some survivors keep silent out of a sense of duty to…

Sexual Trauma, Healing & Liberation

In episode 492 of The Trauma Therapist podcast, Ignacio G Hutía Xeiti Rivera talks about their sexual trauma, healing, and liberation for marginalized people. This episode involves an intergenerational conversation and lessons…

More from Amber

The Role of Yoga & Meditation

So now we’ve talked about our feelings we’ve let a lot of stuff out what do we do something that’s really helpful when you’re doing this and you’re starting to express these…

Transforming Your Negative Feelings

Sometimes in this journey we’re going to have these feelings of dread and sadness right and it may not be where you’re able to talk to someone or you’re able to go…

Why Do I Feel Sad When I Should Be Happy?

I think a big question I hear among survivors and even why I think I asked myself many times early on in my journey is why do I feel sad or depressed…

Amber’s Story

Amber is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and currently works as an advocate for a domestic violence shelter in Colorado. She shares her story of being groomed and sexually abused by…

The Role of a Trial in Healing

You know something I really wish that someone would have said to me in the process of this journey is that at the end of the trial you know if you are…

The Role of Therapy

I’d like to go a little deeper into the role that therapy plays in your journey um for me once I found a therapist that I truly felt comfortable with I was…

If Your Case Doesn’t Go to Court

You know something else I think that’s important to talk about is the other side the people who aren’t able to go to court and get Justice for themselves so I think…

Finding a Therapist

Let’s talk about therapy and I know that that’s a very scary word for some um and I think that the problem is sometimes is that we look at therapy as okay…

Conflicted Feelings About Abuser

So there’s something I feel like that’s a little controversial but so normal among all survivors so say you have a an abuser and you know there’s kind of the normal well…