Helping Clients By learning about responding to human trafficking, centers can help those who might be misidentified as "difficult clients."Helping clients is what pregnancy resource centers are all about. I know that. Staff and volunteers at pregnancy resource centers and maternity homes are my heroes. Sidewalk...
Human Trafficking Awareness Month January is human trafficking awareness month. January 11th is international human trafficking awareness day! In honor of victims, with great respect for survivors, and to the equipping of advocates we have decided to post one module of the video portion of the...
Winning Wednesday? What does it mean to win? Winning If you have ever been involved in politics or campaigns or even vote, you might experience the barrage of calls, texts and emails that candidates and political parties send night and day. They all want to win. I...
The day after the post from June 26th, 2019, I got a call that turned the world upside down. The next day I had just finished a glass of wine after work, when I got a call. The woman on the other end of the phone asked...
First, don't be afraid of life. Not So Easy It may be easy to say, "First, don't be afraid of life." But it is not easy to control fear of the unknown. Even if you have a steady job and a healthy family, life is full of...
Life is hard, but your suffering is not worthy of death. Neither is anyone else's suffering or potential suffering worthy of death. We all die, but we are not all killed. Suffering There is no person on earth that will escape the experience of suffering. It just...
"No greater love, has anyone that this: to lay down their life for another," DP translation of John 15:13. No Greater Love You can say the words all you want, but if you are not actively making sacrifices for another person's benefit and wellbeing, you are not...
What is the value of your life? Are you the sum of your parts or only worth what you can contribute or is your value up to some arbitrarily contrived standards? Your Body Our bodies are the mechanism by which we interact with the world. It is...
This publication is so full of smut. Teen Vogue is grooming your kids for exploitation. The Thin, Fragile Veil If you have read Wisdom Speaks blog before, you know about the thin and fragile veil between prostitution and sex trafficking. Legally, any commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) of...
How often do we recognize that timing is everything?Hitting traffic on the highway, gathering people for a meeting, the beauty of a blooming flower: the list of possibilities wherein ‘timing is everything’ is infinite. Obviously, some things require more convergence than others. The photo above...