OVERCOMING ABUSE Archive

Beauty Instead Of Ashes Child sexual abuse is a wide spread problem and the growing number in statistics is shocking. The effects of the abuse can be long lasting, but Kaylee Ewing, Miss International 2018, has a message for us all, “We have a choice.” We can remain a victim or through the journey in …

From Victim to Victor She Rewrote The Story Have you ever been a party to or a witness of domestic violence? The statistics are shocking, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence 1 in 4 women experience severe intimate partner violence including both physical and verbal abuse. Research has proven that in many cases, …

Eating disorders, alcoholism and abuse, I was a victim and now I triumph as a victor. There is a universal term we all know too well and that’s the word shame, a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior. Shame is a powerful protective emotion and as shame researcher …