Jungle Flower Dragon Heart: Healing Out Loud from Abuse & Sexual Violence

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This performance includes explicit descriptions of relationship violence and its impact. While shared with intention and purpose, the material may be activating for some audiences and is offered for those who feel resourced enough to witness it.

This is an intimate, storytelling experience for those who are walking the long arc of healing.

In 2019, I left Toronto on a one-way ticket to Southeast Asia. I stayed there for ten months, writing about the psychologically abusive relationship I'd experienced thirteen years prior. My story had never been spoken fully, to others or myself, and those thirteen years after my escape saw continued harassment from the abuser.

While moving through jungles, coastlines, and ancient cities, I wrote. Post by post I shared my story on Instagram, while the abuser watched, uninvited. Through sharing my truth in this way, and the incredible support of my online community, something profound happened: the abuser finally left me alone, for good.

I turned these Instagram posts into a one-woman show woven with major lessons, spoken word poetry and the self portraits I'd taken on this journey through the stunning landscapes of Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Upon my return to Toronto that same year, the show opened to a sold-out audience and went on to be presented at schools across Turtle Island (Brown University, Queen's University, Dalhousie University, Seneca College, University of Toronto, Toronto Metropolitan University, Trent University, University of Waterloo, Western University, and San Diego State University).

Jungle Flower Dragon Heart highlights the major lessons I've learned on my healing journey and now, I am offering this experience in a much more intimate way. Hosted in my wellness studio, this is a living-room style session: smaller scale, up close and personal.

• Live storytelling drawn from personal experience
• Original spoken word poetry
• Projected self-portraits created during solo travel through Southeast Asia
• Reflections on trauma, identity, intuition, voice, and self-authorship
• A calm, intentional atmosphere designed for nervous system safety

• People with lived experience of relational trauma
• Those navigating post-traumatic growth and integration
• People drawn to story as medicine
• Folks seeking resonance, reflection, and embodied truth in an intimate setting

A photographer for over two decades, Jungle Flower's work has spanned music, portraiture and humanitarian storytelling. Her grassroots organization, Reclaim Your Voice, was created to offer free support to people who have experienced abuse and sexual violence, and received the Mayor's Community Safety Award from the so-called City of Toronto. Her work has been presented at universities, cultural institutions, and sold-out venues, inviting audiences to explore the many ways healing can be approached.

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