First Light

First Light currently hosts community events focused on connection and conversation. In parallel, we are developing a structured program and group offerings to support women as they transition from survival toward thriving.

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Our Mission

Our Mission is to guide women from survival mode back to wholeness, provide a safe community to heal after trauma, and to rebuild identity through community, accountability and honesty.

1 in 3 women experience sexual violence in their lifetime.

— CDC

More than half of survivors don’t tell anyone for years—if ever.

— CDC

Over 70% of sexual assaults go unreported.

— RAINN

  • Radical Tools & Conversations

    From journaling prompts to live calls — resources that help you take charge and responsibility, not just comfort you.

  • Local Empowerment Groups

    Women gathering together with different speakers, sharing the same desire to change and heal.

  • Private Online Community

    A safe Skool space for reflection, knowledge, and sisterhood.

Impacts After Trauma

31–45% of rape survivors develop long-term PTSD in their lifetime.

Many survivors feel disconnected from their bodies—even years later.

Harmful coping is common when pain goes unprocessed, can include disordered eating, self-harm, emotional detachment, or people-pleasing

Some survivors become hypersexual as a way to reclaim control, feel wanted, or avoid emotional pain.

All are valid trauma responses not character flaws. People often minimize or normalize what happened to them.

At First Light, We don’t turn survival into a diagnosis, we name the experiences, understand them, and gently walk with women as they find their way back to themselves.

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Next Steps

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  • Skool Community launching soon

  • Empowerment groups launching soon

  • Invite someone to one of our groups or to do the 6 month HEALED program.