Empowerment After Adversity

Change occurs when conversations progress beyond mere awareness and engage with our communities. 

I work closely with organizations, advocates, educators, media, podcasts, community leaders, and other professionals dedicated to enhancing understanding around domestic violence, coercive control, relational trauma, nervous system health, survivor empowerment, and healing. 

Collaboration opportunities may encompass speaking engagements, podcast and media appearances, panels, educational events, workshops, community conversations, advocacy initiatives, and partnerships aligned with these vital issues. 

If your work aligns with these critical conversations and you believe our voices can come together to create something impactful, I would love to connect with you. 

Areas of expertise include: 

- Domestic violence & coercive control  

- Psychological and emotional abuse  

- Post-separation abuse  

- Family court reform & survivor-centered systems  

- The intersection of coercive control and family court  

- Gaslighting & the erosion of self-trust  

- Betrayal trauma & relational trauma  

-Addiction and Recovery

-POTS and Dysautonomia

- Trauma and the autonomic nervous system  

- Somatic healing & nervous system regulation  

- Attachment, relationships & emotional safety  

- Survivor empowerment, agency & sovereignty  

- Spirituality, meaning-making & post-traumatic growth  

- Intergenerational trauma & breaking cycles  

- Trauma-informed advocacy & survivor support

Meet Your Hosts

Unbroken brings together two distinct perspectives — healing and embodiment alongside law, human rights, advocacy, and systemic change.

Rev. Julie Haas

Rev. Julie Haas is an ordained Interfaith Minister, somatic practitioner, Usui Reiki Master, survivor advocate, and founder of Faithfully Driven. Drawing from both professional training and lived experience, Julie explores the impact of trauma, particularly coercive control, betrayal, psychological abuse, and chronic relational stress on the nervous system, self-trust, identity, spirituality, and our ability to feel safe in relationships. Her work fosters survivor empowerment by focusing on the whole person: mind, body, spirit, and relationships, while illuminating the possibility of rebuilding a life rooted in sovereignty and self-trust.

Laura Laffitte Salis-Gabbiani

Laura Laffitte Salis-Gabbiani is a Human Rights Legal Expert, coercive control expert, advocate, and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime delegate with more than 25 years of experience across law, policy, and human rights advocacy. Her work focuses particularly on coercive control, domestic violence, human trafficking, trauma-informed policy, the protection of women and children, and the systemic structures that impact vulnerable populations. Laura’s efforts extend beyond raising awareness into fostering collaboration opportunities and systemic reform. Her international advocacy includes partnerships with the United Nations and UNODC, where she contributes her expertise and lived experience to discussions on coercive control, justice systems, human rights, and the need for stronger protections for vulnerable populations. As a survivor of domestic violence, Laura brings invaluable insights into the gaps that can exist between the design of systems and the realities faced by survivors.

Two Perspectives. One Conversation.

Together, Julie and Laura examine trauma from both the inside and the outside. Julie provides insights through the lens of the nervous system, somatics, spirituality, relationships, healing, and survivor experience, while Laura offers a perspective rooted in law, human rights, coercive control, policy, advocacy, and systemic reform. Together, they explore pressing questions such as: What happens to a person living with coercive control? How does the body respond to prolonged betrayal, fear, and psychological manipulation? Why are non-physical forms of abuse still so challenging for society — and sometimes our institutions — to acknowledge? Where are systems failing survivors? And most importantly: What needs to change?

Unbroken exists at the intersection of lived experience, healing, human rights, and advocacy — bringing crucial conversations about trauma-informed advocacy that have too often occurred behind closed doors out into the light.