How I finally ran a half marathon 10 years after being raped during training

I did about three months of intense counseling, in which I underwent a psychotherapy treatment called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) that’s often used on people who have experienced trauma. It basically helps to get your brain “unstuck” — and it helped me remember details from the attack that I had been suppressing, and talk about them out loud so I could get them out of my head. Through this therapy, I was able to forgive my attacker. [Excerpt]

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Amanda Dufresne Lee

Lee, A. D. (2016, April 21). How I finally ran a half marathon 10 years after being raped during training. Teen Vogue. Retrieved from http://www.teenvogue.com/story/rape-survivor-run-half-marathon