Women's Self Defense and Your Mental Well Being An attack against your body can affect your mind. If you have been physically attacked and have resulted in injury or rape, the psychological affects can leave you more scared on the inside than you were scarred on the outside. Women's self defense advocacy groups monitor robberies, domestic abuse, rapes, and abductions so that they can get the women that were attacked the help that need both to mend their bodies and their minds. Women's Self Defense and Pressure Points If you decide to take a women's self defense course you will be given a variety of tools in which you can defend yourself from a would be attacker or assailant. You will be taught non-violent methods such as using a whistle or sound blaster. You will be taught avoidance techniques such as avoiding places where you might be attacked or avoiding situations in which you will be tricked into going to a place where an attack might take place. Physical safety could include violations or harm to your body, up to and including rape, molestation, bodily harm, or death. Women's self defense training helps you to set up boundaries in both the physical and verbal world in which you live and work. Tips and tools of women's self defense can let you live, work, and play with more self confidence and the total absence of fear. If you are attacked with your child, put your child down or away from the potential attacker. Place yourself between the assailant and your kid. Use the defense techniques that the women's self defense class has taught you and run after the assailant is disabled. Of course if you have any chance to escape with your child, do so immediately. Remember do not swing the umbrella like sword. It will not stop or injure the attacker. You must use the point. Aim at the face area, especially toward the eyes or mouth. If the face is not available, try the solar plexus right below the sternum. That is about two inches below the chest bone. A good jab in the ribs will also deter the assailant. There are more than a half million rapes in the United States a year. Out of that number, half of those were committed by family members or relatives. Out of the sexual assault cases, over half were women and girls under the age of twenty one. Women's self defense classes and women's advocacy groups are gearing their training to meet the needs of these young girls.