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Not just nudes: Read our report on image-based abuse in Pakistan and the diaspora
Our global resources have been created with care by survivors and experts. Available in multiple languages and formats - you can use them to spot abuse, collect evidence, stay safe, get well and connect to local services.
Over the past two years, Chayn has been speaking with more than 60 Pakistani women — from cities and villages across Pakistan and from the diaspora. Our research shows that any image can become a weapon once it is in the wrong hands. Hear survivors stories or download the full report.
Image-based abuse
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Chayn
Feeling unsafe or uncertain online? Created in collaboraton with our friends at EndTAB, this guide offers practical, trauma-informed steps to help you feel safer, build confidence, and find support. Suitable for anyone experiencing digital harm, or those supporting them. This guide is currently available in English, and we’ll be adding more languages over time—stay tuned!
Online safety
Image-based abuse
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Chayn
Deciding whether to share our experience after abuse or harm is a deeply personal choice. Choosing whether, how, and who to tell can be an important step in healing—but it can also feel complicated or uncertain. This guide explores what might influence that decision and offers gentle support to help us make choices that feel right and safe for us.
Sexual trauma
Mental wellbeing
Toxic relationships
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Chayn
This 40-minute audio conversation shares truths related to image-based abuse that can support you on your healing journey. It’s available in Urdu, Pashto, Punjabi, Balochi and Sindhi. You can also read the transcript of the conversation.
Image-based abuse
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Chayn
We're building an AI tool that produces formal takedown letters to websites hosting images or videos of you that you didn’t consent to being uploaded. Join our list to get more updates.
Image-based abuse
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Chayn
Not all kinds of abuse and toxicity show themselves through physical violence. This guide shows us how to identify manipulative situations and people, and how to deal with them.
Toxic relationships
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Chayn
Grounding exercises can help to bring us back to ourselves and the present moment when we feel distressed, overwhelmed, or disconnected from our bodies and the world around us. They engage with our senses — sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste — to help ground us in the here and now. You can use these exercises anytime you want. They’re always here for you, whenever you need them.
Mental wellbeing
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Chayn
We explore the social context of image-based abuse and learn tools for processing our emotions, understanding our responses, and healing from trauma. We remind ourselves that we are not to blame.
Online safety
Image-based abuse
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Chayn
Explore body image, sexual desire, the trauma response, and coping mechanisms after sexual trauma, and rebuild a sense of identity with varied recovery tools. Powered by Bloom by Chayn.
Sexual trauma
Mental wellbeing
Sexual health
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Chayn
In this course, we discuss abusive tactics, the cycle of coercive control, the science of trauma, and how abuse can affect our relationships and coping mechanisms.
Toxic relationships
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Chayn
Through narrative therapy and journaling, identify triggers, learn the science of trauma, re-build self-esteem, unlearn shame - and find your natural resilience. Powered by Bloom and Soul Medicine.
Mental wellbeing
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Chayn
Identify victim-blaming stigmas and myths, look at how these prejudices might have affected our healing journey, and understand how sexual violence is facilitated by both individual predators and patriarchal power structures.
Sexual trauma
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Chayn
Romance fraud is a form of abuse where someone builds a fake relationship, usually online, to gain our trust, then uses that trust to cause emotional and financial harm. Hear survivor Anna Rowe's story of a 14-month relationship built on a fake identity, and Kiera Brodie from Refuge's tech abuse team explain the tactics of romance scams.
Online safety
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Chayn
After experiencing romance fraud, navigating banks, police, and legal systems can be one of the hardest parts. Vidushi from Refuge shares practical steps for securing our accounts, understanding our rights, and reporting. Anna from LoveSaid and Kiera from Refuge also explore why institutional responses often fall short.
Online safety
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Chayn
Healing from romance fraud isn't linear. Survivor Anna Rowe reflects on her recovery and learning to trust herself again, and Kiera from Refuge explores rebuilding self-trust, and making space for anger and grief.
Online safety
Mental wellbeing
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Chayn
A podcast from Chayn exploring the experiences of survivors who report sexual violence, and how the systems that are meant to protect us are failing. Less than 2% focuses on the UK but is globally relevant.
Legal rights
Sexual trauma
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Chayn
A step by step guide for how to collect and present evidence of abuse.
Legal rights
Toxic relationships
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Chayn
This guide will assist us in knowing all of our options and give a realistic picture of abortion, understanding the process practically and emotionally.
Legal rights
Sexual health
Supporting loved ones
Mental wellbeing
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Chayn
What if healing wasn’t something we just talked about, but also something we feel in our body? In this video, somatic practitioner, Bhargavi Raman, explains that somatics is a practice that invites us to listen to the body in a way we may never have done before, building body awareness to form a foundation for deeper healing.
Mental wellbeing
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Chayn
Somatics is about more than individual healing—it’s shaped by history, power, and collective struggle. In this conversation with Nishma Jethwa from Healing Justice London, we explore how reconnecting with our bodies can also be a practice of justice and liberation.
Mental wellbeing
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Chayn
Violence, stress, and fear can leave deep imprints in the body, shaping how we feel and respond. Somatic practitioner, Bhargavi Raman, looks at how somatic work can gently shift us from survival mode, widen our capacity to cope, and begin repairing even intergenerational wounds.
Mental wellbeing
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Chayn
Helen was told by a friend that he’d seen videos of her on a porn site. But these videos weren’t real, they were deepfakes—images or videos created using artificial intelligence technology to look like us. In this conversation, we explore the impact on Helen and why the effects of deepfakes are very real, even when the images are faked.
Online safety
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Chayn
In questa pagina puoi trovare informazioni utili se stai pensando di denunciare il tuo partner per gli abusi subiti.
Toxic relationships
Legal rights
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Chayn Italia
A short guide that will give you practical and simple advice on how to better support a loved one in an abusive relationship.
Supporting loved ones
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Chayn
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