This article explores the kind of insights survivors can provide into understanding sexual violence and its prevention. I begin in fairly orthodox fashion, reporting on a qualitative study with 10 South Australian men and women who have direct experience of the problem. However, the data produced from narrative-based interviews display their desire to tell stories about recovery rather than the topic under investigation. As interlocutor in these conversations, I reflect on the nature of knowledge produced in the space created between the researcher and the researched. The data illustrate that participant understandings are informed more from alternate and ‘new age’ ideas than from current discourses in the literature. However, the data also show that participants, as survivors, offer situated knowledge about rejuvenation in the aftermath of sexual violence, through their focus on personal ethical transformation. While contributing further to debates about how to prevent sexual violence, this article also discusses participant insights about how to heal from its effects.