Come out of shame and into the light of hope, healing, and love

Sweet Friend,

Let me take you in my arms and hold you and tell you you’re not alone. There is hope and I’m going to help you see it, find it, fight for it, live it. 

Inside you have a beautiful gift. It’s called your imagination. We’re going to use it to rewrite your past and find the truth about you. And that will rewrite your present and future.

People may have lied to you about who you are and here’s the deal – you get to choose not to believe them anymore. Your life will be filled with hope, healing and love. That’s my mission. I’ve done it, and I know you can too.

I feel like there is something you need to hear, that maybe you never heard; something I needed to hear all those years ago too.

It wasn’t your fault. Let me say that again.  It wasn’t your fault. Let me whisper it to your shattered heart and shout it from the rooftops. You can too. Say it over and over and over again until you believe it. 

Together let’s walk the road that leads out of shame and into the light. The road that leads to hope, healing, and love you can’t even fathom exists right now.

I’m proof that it does exist and I won’t stop until I tell everyone I meet that hope, healing, and love do exist. They exist for me and they exist for you and they exist for every one of us.

This is a fight I’m not about to lose. I’m fighting for you and for me and for every survivor. Let’s be warriors together.

This picture was taken just after I smashed an old TV with a sledgehammer and battled a tree (both of which I pretended were my perpetrators), and ran along a path in the woods screaming for help – something my body had wanted to do as a child to escape, but couldn’t. My husband set the whole thing up for me complete with TV, ax, sledgehammer, gloves, protective eye-wear, and the place. I am truly blessed.