Empowering Adult Survivors of Child Abuse Through Community

Empowering Adult Survivors of Child Abuse Through Community   Humans are, by nature, social beings. We live together as family units and as part of a community. We work in teams. When disasters strike, we band together to provide support. So it’s not just that we...

Whipped and worked in Indiana

Whipped and worked in Indiana I was one of six kids growing up in Indiana in the ’70s and early ’80s. My parents were extremely devout Missouri Synod Lutherans and were convinced that almost everything us kids did aside from praying, chores, sleeping or...

PTSD and Adult Survivors of Child Abuse

PTSD and Adult Survivors of Child Abuse   Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is frequently associated with military veterans. It’s especially prevalent in vets who faced combat or other horrors of war. However, survivors of child abuse can also experience...

Surviving Child Sex Trafficking

Surviving Child Sex Trafficking It’s difficult to comprehend many things more despicable than child sex trafficking. The thought of selling an innocent child into sexual exploitation for profit is simply more than most of us can grasp. Yet, every day, predators sell...

I may fall, but I’ll always get back up

I may fall, but I’ll always get back up With the hell I’ve lived through, nothing could stop me from chasing my dreams. 45 – 105 years without the possibility of parole was my Dad’s sentence for what he did to me and my brother until I was 10 years old. He...