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Vanessa Cook

Vanessa Cook is a trauma-informed holistic wellness practitioner, breathwork facilitator, and founder of Starlight & Sage Wellness in Reedsburg, Wisconsin.

Sep 18, 2026

SirenHOST
19:39
What, what other parts are there.
19:43
yeah, there unfortunately is a multitude of things, which I feel like is very, um, it's not uncommon for women to have these like moments in their life that they look back on and say, man, I can't believe I did this or yeah, I did this because of fear or again, the lack of education.
20:04
Um, my, uh, me into, um, being sexually active was one that was non-consensual.
20:15
I had been sexually abused by my father, which then led to me putting myself in a situation where I was raped by the time I was 14 from an ex-boyfriend.
20:28
And that moment for me was the moment that I believed that my body was worthless.
20:36
And part of that, of course, was the belief not only in religion but society as a whole that when you lose your virginity you lose your purity that innocence like this supposed like gift and grandeur that we put on the act of having sex for the first time and so i very freely gave my body away i gave my body away as a tool to control those around me to believe that i had control of various situations um which led me into really betraying myself, but also utilizing my body in a way that dehumanized me in general.
21:22
And so in that, I really had to heal from a lot of sexual trauma and the recognition that Although my experiences were really out there, my experiences are shared by so many women and that I wasn't alone in this idea of worthlessness because of an experience and then everything that I did to compound that trauma.

14 MINS LATER

SirenHOST
36:07
um so what else in the how do you usually come about your clients is it a lot of direct referrals um they find you through your social medias like how is this a full-time job for you like I mean it's clearly your passion and your calling

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