February 2026

When you hold abusers accountable, you are supporting a victims healing. Cover up culture is part of my story. I spent a majority of my younger years (6yrs old to almost 30yrs old) in the same church. There are 3 different times the act of sexual abuse was covered up by leadership and these are just the stories I know of. One of the stories played out while I was a young teenager and didn’t pay much attention to what was going on around me. Another story happened while I was

The process of healing from trauma quite often involves revisiting past experiences. It takes a trained professional in most cases to help us navigate this process. We learn new skills and techniques to deal with the pain that was caused us. We first learn to admit there is pain. We learn how unregulated our nervous system became because of the abuse and trauma. We grow to understand that if we don’t learn to regulate our nervous system, it will physically affect us adversely

My healing journey from childhood abuse and trauma started in 2005. Over the course of the following 10 years, I had been to counseling, support groups and an outpatient program for a major episode of depression and PTSD. In 2020, I finished writing and published a book about the abuse and what I have learned during the healing process. Journaling was a tool that helped me to process the pain of childhood sexual abuse so I had plenty of material for my book. Fast forward to