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      <image:title>History of TBO - Our Mission: Taking Back Ourselves is committed to empowering women survivors of sexual abuse, violence, and incest to be whole, healed, and connected to others.     Taking Back Ourselves supports that purpose by offering healing weekends for women survivors that provide a deep and joyful multi-modal experience and create a powerful community of women that will continue long after the weekend.    Taking Back Ourselves is committed to empowering women survivors of sexual abuse, violence, and incest to be whole, healed, and connected to others.     Taking Back Ourselves supports that purpose by offering experiential Weekends of Recovery for women survivors from every background, race and creed, to provide a deep and joyful multi-modal experience and create a powerful community that continues long after the weekend.    TBO is committed to providing scholarships for participants who are otherwise unable to afford to participate. Each weekend can accommodate a maximum of 28 women and 8 facilitators—remarkable therapists from across the US.   This ratio of therapists to participants in small groups is a powerful adjunct to recovery.  Each member of the TBO team has decades of experience and skill in sexual trauma therapy, body and authentic movement, and process work. Each participant learns and implements tools for inner and outer safety, tells her story in small group where she will be heard—and with the power of community—creates a new template for recovery that continues long after the weekend. Taking Back Ourselves (TBO) is committed to making the Weekends absolutely accessible to women who have little access to support because of race, culture, or economics.  But weekends like this are expensive to run.  TBO is vigilant about finding facilities that are welcoming to the work, provide enough physical and environmental space to be safe and nurturing, and are still reasonable in price.  We areextremely careful about choosing facilities that have NO strong ties to religious or philosophical institutions that may be reminiscent of past violations.  We are also committed to providing small stipends for the facilitators that donate far more in hundreds of hours a year to this project.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Photo by F Dillon</image:caption>
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      <image:title>History of TBO</image:title>
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      <image:title>Empowering yourself to go on a weekend</image:title>
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      <image:title>Home - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://takingbackourselves.org/new-page-55</loc>
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    <loc>https://takingbackourselves.org/resources-for-those-who-struggle-with-addiction</loc>
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    <loc>https://takingbackourselves.org/new-page-5</loc>
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    <loc>https://takingbackourselves.org/resources-for-survivors-with-autism</loc>
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      <image:title>Scholarship  Application - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Advanced Weekend of Recovery</image:title>
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    <loc>https://takingbackourselves.org/about-what-we-do</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-03-31</lastmod>
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      <image:title>What We Do</image:title>
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      <image:title>What We Do</image:title>
      <image:caption>Photo by NL</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://takingbackourselves.org/about-weekends-of-recovery</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-02</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Weekends of Recovery</image:title>
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    <loc>https://takingbackourselves.org/about-events-of-healing</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-02-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events of Healing</image:title>
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    <loc>https://takingbackourselves.org/worwelcome</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-01</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58dffccf9f7456e9885f8672/1753291751232-4N943XGMKDTP69DMVC3Z/Therapist+Letter+2025.1.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Welcome to the 2025 Weekend of Recovery</image:title>
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      <image:title>Welcome to the 2025 Weekend of Recovery</image:title>
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    <lastmod>2025-04-29</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>From Red Women's Workshop</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Resources</image:title>
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    <loc>https://takingbackourselves.org/facts-and-hope</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-22</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Facts &amp; Hope</image:title>
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    <loc>https://takingbackourselves.org/new-page-95</loc>
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    <loc>https://takingbackourselves.org/statement-for-survivors</loc>
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    <loc>https://takingbackourselves.org/who-we-are</loc>
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      <image:title>Who We Are</image:title>
      <image:caption>Standing in back row, from left to right: Sandy, Chad, Abbe Sitting in front row, from left to right: Mikele, Denise, Elika</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Who We Are - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Who We Are - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58dffccf9f7456e9885f8672/aed2d39c-da6e-4eb3-9013-f418b1d60285/Chad%2BCorbley.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Who We Are - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58dffccf9f7456e9885f8672/ac5b0f7d-b93b-488a-a90e-bc673e918f8a/IMG_1467.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Who We Are - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Who We Are - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Who We Are - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Who We Are - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Who We Are - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Impact - Healing in Community</image:title>
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