Trauma, Consent & Healing: Jimanekia Eborn on Reclaiming Your Body and Voice

Aug 03, 10:00 AM

In this powerful episode, Michele Locke sits down with trauma expert, comprehensive sex educator, survivor advocate, and Tending the Garden founder Jimanekia Eborn for an honest conversation about resilience, healing, and reclaiming your voice. Jimanekia shares her deeply personal journey as a survivor of sexual assault and childhood domestic violence, including the devastating loss of her mother and how those experiences shaped her life's work. She discusses creating Tending the Garden to provide culturally responsive support for marginalized survivors and how the organization evolved through unexpected challenges.

How do we reclaim our bodies, rebuild trust, and create a life that's defined by more than survival?

Jimanekia shares her deeply personal journey as a survivor of sexual assault and childhood domestic violence, including the devastating loss of her mother and how those experiences shaped her life's work. She discusses creating Tending the Garden to provide culturally responsive support for marginalized survivors and how the organization evolved through unexpected challenges.

The conversation explores survivor-centered healing, body autonomy, consent, pleasure without shame, trauma-informed sex education, and practical ways survivors can reconnect with themselves. Jimanekia also explains the growing role of intimacy coordinators in film and television, her work consulting on trauma-informed storytelling, and her experience serving as a mental health liaison for professional wrestling organizations.

**DISCLAIMER** The information shared in this podcast is intended for entertainment purposes only. It should not be considered as professional legal advice or a substitute for seeking professional legal advice This episode contains discussions of murder, sexual assault, child abuse, abortion, and explicit adult content. Listener discretion is advised.

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