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Join Judge Rosemarie Aquilina and Shari Botwin, LCSW for meaningful conversations aimed at empowerment, healing and knowledge. They tackle varying topics that include issues surrounding trauma, pain, and parenting. These important and raw conversations will instill hope, insight, coping strategies, how to maneuver the law, and when to ask for help. Most important, how to be the hero in your own story. Judge Aquilina is the author of "Just Watch Me." Shari Botwin, LCSW author of "Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing" counsels patients in recovery from all types of trauma.

Warrior Women Speak: With Judge Rosemarie Aquilina and Shari Botwin, LCSW Judge Rosemarie Aquilina and Shari Botwin, LCSW

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    • 4.5 • 21 Ratings

Join Judge Rosemarie Aquilina and Shari Botwin, LCSW for meaningful conversations aimed at empowerment, healing and knowledge. They tackle varying topics that include issues surrounding trauma, pain, and parenting. These important and raw conversations will instill hope, insight, coping strategies, how to maneuver the law, and when to ask for help. Most important, how to be the hero in your own story. Judge Aquilina is the author of "Just Watch Me." Shari Botwin, LCSW author of "Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing" counsels patients in recovery from all types of trauma.

    Empowering Survivors with Gloria Allred

    Empowering Survivors with Gloria Allred

    Gloria Allred
    is a founding partner of Allred,
    Maroko & Goldberg (AM&G) with offices in Los Angeles and New York. Her firm
    has been the leading women’s rights private law firm in the nation for 47
    years, winning hundreds of millions of dollars for victims. Ms. Allred has won
    countless honors for her pioneering legal work on behalf of victims who have
    been discriminated against due to gender, race, age, physical handicap, sexual
    orientation, sexual harassment or because they have AIDS. AM&G is also
    well-known for its work on behalf of victims of rape, child sexual abuse and battered
    women. Ms. Allred also founded the Women’s Equal Rights Legal Defense and
    Education Fund (WERLDEF).

    Netflix "Seeing Allred"
    Watch Seeing Allred | Netflix Official Site

    Fight Back and Win
    Fight Back and Win: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Injustice--And How You Can Win Your Own Battles: Allred, Gloria: 9780060739300: Amazon.com: Books

    • 34 min
    Relationships and Dating Violence

    Relationships and Dating Violence

    A List of Resources for You

    Resources for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, rape and intimate partner sexual assault:

    RAINN: www.rainn.org

    The National Domestic Violence Hotline: www.thehotline.org

    Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: www.childhelp.org

    Suicide Prevention: www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org

    Find a Therapist: www.psychologytoday.com

    Find a Lawyer: www.americanbar.org or contact the State Bar Pro Bono Section of your state

    Eating Disorders Support: www.nationaleatingdisorders.org

    Online Alcohol and Drug Addiction Support: www.recovertogether.withgoogle.com

    Email us with suggestions of topics, questions or comments anytime! warriorwomenspeak@gmail.com Follow us on social media www.instagram.com/warriorwomenspeak  www.facebook.com/warriorwomenspeak

    For more on Judge Aquilina's memoir check out Audible.com and it is now in Paperback, Hardcover and ebook and available on Amazon. For a copy of “Just Watch Me“ go to https://www.amazon.com/Just-Watch-Me-Rosemarie-Aquilina-ebook/dp/B09SP9ZNNZ/ref=sr_1_2?crid=O03HX163WLPR&keywords=just+watch+me+rosemarie+aquilina&qid=1645311525&sprefix=just+watch+me+ro%2Caps%2C47

    For more information on Shari Botwin's book now in Paperback, Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing go to Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing: Botwin, Shari: 9781538162675: Amazon.com: Books Also visit www.sharibotwin.com Follow Botwin on Psychology Today Blogs: Thriving After Trauma | Psychology Today Other Books by Judge Aquilina Amazon.com: Feel No Evil: 9781733696432: Aquilina, Rosemarie: Books Amazon.com: ALL RISE (ALL RISE SERIES): 9781733696463: Aquilina, Rosemarie: Books Amazon.com: Triple Cross Killer (State Detective Special Forces): 9781733696401: Aquilina, Rosemarie: Books

    • 47 min
    Destigmatizing Asking For Help

    Destigmatizing Asking For Help

    Everyone needs help sometimes. Join Judge Rosemarie Aquilina and Shari Botwin, LCSW as they discuss the importance of reaching out and how that translates into living better, happier lives. 

    A List of Resources for You!


    Resource for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, rape and intimate partner sexual assault: RAINN: www.rainn.org
    The National Domestic Violence Hotline: www.thehotline.org
    Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: www.childhelp.org
    Suicide Prevention: www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org
    Find a Therapist: www.psychologytoday.com
    Find a Lawyer: www.americanbar.org or contact the State Bar Pro Bono Section of your state
    Eating Disorders Support: www.nationaleatingdisorders.org
    Online Alcohol and Drug Addiction Support: www.recovertogether.withgoogle.com

    For more on Judge Aquilina's book, Just Watch Me go to Just Watch Me: Aquilina, Rosemarie: 9798985513417: Amazon.com: Books

    For more information on Shari Botwin's book, Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing go to Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing: Botwin, Shari, White, Jo Anne Dr.: 9781538125601: Amazon.com: Books

    • 39 min
    Nichols, Floyd and Linked Fate

    Nichols, Floyd and Linked Fate

    Another senseless death captured the world's attention as the video of Tyre Nichols final moments of life were released. Elected officials and community members expressed shock and sadness after seeing the police body camera and neighborhood security camera footage​, which showed multiple Memphis Police Department (MPD) officers kicking, punching and striking Nichols with a baton as he screamed for help. Join Judge Aquilina and Shari Botwin, LCSW in an emotional conversation about Nichol's death, and how we can take action and demand change. Linked fate is when others can imagine that Floyd, Nichols and others could have been their sons, husbands, parents or teachers. These types of tragedies hit close to home. How can society trust people in authority when some of them act in horrific ways?

    "Like so many, I was outraged and deeply pained to see the horrific video of the beating that resulted in Tyre Nichols’ death," President Biden said in a statement on Friday evening. "It is yet another painful reminder of the profound fear and trauma, the pain, and the exhaustion that Black and Brown Americans experience every single day." U.S. reacts to video of Tyre Nichols' fatal beating by Memphis police (axios.com)

    A List of Resources for You!


    Resource for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, rape and intimate partner sexual assault: RAINN: www.rainn.org
    The National Domestic Violence Hotline: www.thehotline.org
    Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: www.childhelp.org
    Suicide Prevention: www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org
    Find a Therapist: www.psychologytoday.com
    Find a Lawyer: www.americanbar.org or contact the State Bar Pro Bono Section of your state
    Eating Disorders Support: www.nationaleatingdisorders.org
    Online Alcohol and Drug Addiction Support: www.recovertogether.withgoogle.com

    For more on Judge Aquilina's book, Just Watch Me go to Just Watch Me: Aquilina, Rosemarie: 9798985513417: Amazon.com: Books

    For more information on Shari Botwin's book, Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing go to Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing: Botwin, Shari, White, Jo Anne Dr.: 9781538125601: Amazon.com: Books

    • 38 min
    Our Bodies Store Trauma

    Our Bodies Store Trauma

    A List of Resources for You!

    Resource for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, rape and intimate partner sexual assault: RAINN: www.rainn.org
    The National Domestic Violence Hotline: www.thehotline.org
    Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: www.childhelp.org
    Suicide Prevention: www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org
    Find a Therapist: www.psychologytoday.com
    Find a Lawyer: www.americanbar.org or contact the State Bar Pro Bono Section of your state
    Eating Disorders Support: www.nationaleatingdisorders.org
    Online Alcohol and Drug Addiction Support: www.recovertogether.withgoogle.com

    For more on Judge Aquilina's book, Just Watch Me go to Just Watch Me: Aquilina, Rosemarie: 9798985513417: Amazon.com: Books
    For more information on Shari Botwin's book, Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing go to Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing: Botwin, Shari, White, Jo Anne Dr.: 9781538125601: Amazon.com: Books

    • 44 min
    Turning Trauma Into Success

    Turning Trauma Into Success

    No one is immune from trauma. Everyone has trauma that isn’t realized. The emotions and memories live within us and cannot be ignored. It can be turned into success, through better understanding of ourselves, the world, and all those around us. Turning trauma into positive personal change, and growth increases the ability to succeed. Join our discussion about flipping the script, by being optimistic and open to seeing the world in new ways and with positivity that embraces change snd releases the trauma we hold. 

    • 37 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
21 Ratings

21 Ratings

Shehnaz Abdrabboh ,

Thelma & Louise

These two are so fun together, especially listening at 1.5x speed lol. Down-to-earth and personable with a simple yet informative approach. They provide the listener comfort where discomfort may otherwise be common. I appreciate that if they don't know something, they say so. Often times we already know what speakers are talking about, but amid life's chaos it's nice to be reminded about the simple things.

Jane McFarland ,

Inspiring and encouraging

A dynamic, energetic and passionate duo having honest conversations that inform, inspire, encourage, teach and motivate!

nicholasNotAfool ,

Trauma dissociation

Great show! I was hoping Shari could shed some light on childhood dissociation related to trauma. I’m 35 and as a nurse I’m struggling staying present. Thanks!

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