When you say you believe me, I have more feelings than I know what to do with. I've never been great with managing my feelings, but...

I am painfully aware of how hard it must be to support me sometimes. I'm not always good at explaining why something is not helpful. I'm...

BILLINGS, MONTANA (June 5, 2021) — Safe House Project's team had the privilege of speaking at the ribbon cutting for the HER Campaign’s...

I remember the first time I saw a snake, Curled up inside my Cozy Coupe Calling to mind my Girl Scout Training Hershey’s kisses on its...

I had a teacher tell me once that labels were for cans. As a little middle schooler desperately trying to fit in by denouncing labels...

"Sunday, I had a trauma anniversary. A big one. I was terrified that the minute I was alone, all of the horrible things would come...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 19, 2021)—Safe House Project, a non-profit organization and national leader in the fight against Domestic Sex...

Healing isn't linear, it is a journey--a complicated amalgamation of memories, emotions, people, and spaces. I know some days you feel...

One of my biggest struggles is my longing for a mom. I have a biological mother. She is a complicated part of my life. I never had a mom...

One of our survivors at the HER Refuge confronted me about our social media pages the other day. “You make this journey seem easy, but...

Dear Advocate, You are doing good work. You don’t hear that enough. You are doing good work. The work you are doing matters. Every dollar...

In the time I’ve been writing, I’ve had handfuls of stories from other survivors placed in my lap. I’ve done my best to sit with them in...

The medical profession is without question the home to some of the brightest minds on the planet. And it makes sense why--it takes far...

Military children will say goodbye to more significant people by age 18 than the average person will in their lifetime.

“Unworthy. Undeserving. Unlovable. Those words have been branded on me since I was 4 years old. No one ever told me it could be...

“I had been taught all my life I didn’t deserve an advocate. I didn’t know what to do with myself when the advocates in my life began to...

I don’t know how to brush my teeth. I know what you’re thinking: “You’re 24 years old. What do you mean you don’t know how to brush your...

“Every medical professional I seemed to run into I felt like didn’t have the information they needed. They either didn’t know how to help...

I run because running for my life is no longer self preservation, but self love. I run because it teaches me again and again not how my...

Right now, I feel a lot like a turtle. I lived my life in my little terrarium, unaware of the wide world outside of it. I found comfort...