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Fake It Until You Make It: When Everything Is Not Enough
What do you do when you’re already doing everything you can think of? Fake it.
My $300 Drink and How Getting Drugged is Not Your Fault
I am that girl who refills her cocktail glass with water so no one offers to get her another drink. I still got drugged. I am not on Tinder. I am not out there in the ways that people are. I still got drugged.
But even if I was drunk and on an Tinder date, it would still not be my fault.
Suicide and Me: A Painful Confession
Overwhelmingly, the last year has left me questioning where I fit in and what kind of purpose I have. With each new hurt I stepped further and further away from nearly everyone I knew. I also stepped further and further away from myself.
My Fight With Hunger
Growing up, I always got just enough food. If it was the weekend I got three meals. No one made sure I had breakfast or lunch so I often went without. I even remember a teacher buying me lunch one day at school. Friends would share their lunches with me in middle...
Why I Can’t Choose Joy
Every once in a while a neat little catch phrase will come into the common vernacular and it seems to be all inclusive. It gets tossed around like a beach ball at a concert and is much the same; full of air and of little weight. It can give the user or hearer a little...
Speak Your Silence – Childhood Sexual Abuse
On July 23rd in the Kansas City area, Rethink Trauma is holding a gala in support of Speak Your Silence. I recently interviewed Matt to get some more detail into the specifics of the organization Matt Pipkin is a pretty contagious guy. He doesn't look like what people...
Happy? Mother’s Day
I have a complicated relationship with holidays. By far the most complicated of which is one to make Freud proud: Mother's Day. I stay home from church to avoid sermons about mothers and all we owe them and how God sees motherhood. I limit the mother-lauding Facebook...
Beauty Standards and Sexual Abuse
This week my mom sent me a link to a blog post that hit me really hard. The message came with simple instructions, "Read this blog", but I don't think either my mother or myself were prepared for the intensity of the message I needed to receive. The post by author,...
The 30 Million and 1 Reasons I Quit My Job
Global estimates put the number of enslaved persons between 21 and 30 million people. Million. Statistics point at 76 percent of those people being in forced labor. 22 percent of victims fall under the category of sex slavery. I don't engage in the commercial sex...
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