Finding Her Voice: A journey from victim to survivor
For those who have been battered yet find the courage to pack up and leave their abusers, the road from victim to survivor is not an easy one. It can be filled with fear, doubt and sometimes danger. Although one battle may end when you first walk out—if you take your abuser to court, it […]
Support for Mothers Who Have Lost a Child to Domestic Violence
I interviewed Tara Woodlee, the President and CEO of BTSADV, to gain insight about how we can best support mothers who have lost their child to domestic violence. In 2013, Tara lost her daughter, Ashleigh, and her unborn granddaughter, Patience Lynn, to domestic violence. In sharing her story with me, Tara provided some information about […]
Mother’s Day After an Abusive Mom
There are so many of us that love Mother’s Day. We get to show all our love and appreciation for our mothers. They have raised, supported, loved, and taught us. Those nights when we feared thunder, they would hold us all night. Then they held us all night with our first heartbreak, and we cried […]
6 Ways to Celebrate Motherhood After Leaving an Abusive Partner
“Life doesn’t come with a manual; it comes with a mother.” Unknown Mother’s Day becomes a tough occasion to celebrate if you are someone who has recently moved out of an abusive relationship. Yet, it doesn’t have to be a day where you experience grieving, sadness, nor loneliness. Rather, it should be a day to […]
New Relationship Anxiety
Why do we get anxious when building a new connection, and what is new relationship anxiety? The butterflies and happiness we get when someone new comes into our life. The possibility of love and a future with them is a warm feeling, but quickly the warm feeling starts getting hotter. Your heart is beating faster, […]
One is a Whole Number
Let’s take things back to some elementary math: fractions and whole numbers! I know, I know, math… bleh, right? But hear me out: When we learned about fractions, we learned how they are not whole numbers. We learned that once you get to the number 1, the fraction is either officially a whole or mixed […]
