Sex Trafficking, Exploitation

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Getting UP to Zero… a cliff note survival story…

At the age of 12, I felt unwanted in my family. I decided I needed to run away from home and find another place to live. At first I moved in with other families of kids I barely knew. I quickly learned what kind of people take in runaways without contacting...

Survivor: Faith

Having been traumatized by chronic abuse, my healing required countless and various types of therapeutic treatments in order to achieve the level of health, for which I now both enjoy and feel profoundly grateful. There are many paths through and out of the dark...

Yo Ho Ho & a Bottle of Rum- Captain wanted to Kill Me

I keep thinking I want to write about “The Captain”, but in the next thought, I don’t know if I can. I don't remember a lot of it. I can’t seem to write anything else right now, so I guess I need to do this. Fine. I’ll try and see what happens, but first I have...

Fire Walking

The boxed set holder of books on cassette tape from the library was HUGE; the size of those fat yellow pages…like the ones I used to sit on so that I could see over the steering wheel to drive. After listening to the first tape, I was hooked. I was so drawn into the...

The Journey to Body Acceptance

I was a born super star… Much like Mary Katherine Gallagher from SNL... (I even did a "suphah star" pose during one of my competitions~ But I was an awkward misfit, constantly bullied…I was very petite, next to the shortest person in the entire school but...

Me – a survivor

My father used to call me Sarah Berhardt: Sarah Bernhardt October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage and early film actress. She was referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages...

Journey Through the Forest of Self-Healing

The journey through the dark forest of self-healing is just like any other journey...you have to be prepared for a very long adventure. Some of it is spectacular and surreal. At some of the lowest spits, it may cause you to question whether the breath you take to...

Welcome to CrazyVille…

Welcome to CrazyVille...(also known as the time in my life when all I could eat I was a turkey subway sandwich for breakfast, lunch and dinner). It's all I could get down because of my panic...Today I bought a subway sandwich and ate it with absolutely no issue...