I hope to help juvenile sex trafficking survivors and adult survivors too. Both labor and sex trafficking happen here in the United States and both domestic and international victims need help to become survivors. Ultimately, for survivors to thrive, safe housing and a restorative environment...
Prostitution is not a victimless crime. Even where it is legal, there are victims. Victimless Crime Our laws are ostensibly written for people. However, in the last half century, an administrative state has been creeping into the realm of lawmaking, by making rules that equate to laws....
Don't hide your warts, but you don't need to showcase them either. Everyone's got 'um Every person has some form of warts. With filters and editing on every device we can hide the superficial, visible imperfections. Maybe you have freckles or scars that you don't like. Or...
Three women managed to derail a bill that would help protect children from traffickers. They hijacked hearings. How did they beguile the committee? Criminal Justice and Public Safety The Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee of the NH House of Representatives is made up of regular people. We...
Do you remember the song with the immensely annoying repetition of the line, "Say what you need to say."? Say What You Need to Say It's interesting that such a simple phrase can say so much. There are literally hundreds of words that essentially mean, "say." It...
He makes everything new. This year, is a major shift year for me. How about you? Everything New I can't think of a more frightening thought. Change is hard, but for those of us who have had significant trauma, it's really hard. I like my sameness, my...
The hashtag, #WhyWeMarch, has been used for a while to spread the word about the wide variety of reasons people attend the national and state March for Life events. Why Everyone's 'why' is a little different, but the bottom line is that babies die from abortion. On...
The video of Module 1, below, answers the question: What is human trafficking? Awareness January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month, so I thought I'd share a video portion of the course that I have created. Responding to Human Trafficking for PRCs is designed specifically for pregnancy or...
Should I be defending my existence? Should you? Do we need to validate our lives with achievements or awards? Are we invalidated, if we don't have alphabet soup after our names or some big social media presence. Or maybe we need to just prove that...
How is it possible to make all things new? Perspective Everything we encounter is interpreted exclusively by each person, even when more than one person is experiencing the same event. I noticed an announcement for some corrective lenses for color blindness and was instantly reminded that even...