The girl who slept in her car on her graduation night

I watched this video recalling memories of my own childhood. Having a car to sleep in and washing up at the 24 hour Fitness was just as creative as climbing through windows and sneaking showers and borrowing clean clothes from others. When my book, How Far Will I Run A Memoir…

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Darkness to Light Stewards of Children Introduction

Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children Program is an amazing course that teaches adults how to look for signs of child sexual abuse and how to appropriately deter predators from continuing in their actions. The training is practical and effective with real life survivors sharing their stories. I am excited to…

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Parenting Gently Presents with Paige Lucas-Stannard

We don’t realize that we open the doors for our children’s predators by the way we confuse them with proper etiquette. Paige Lucas- Stannard, parent educator and author of Parenting Gently brings to our attention some of the mixed signals we send to our children. At point 6:09, Paige addresses child…

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Darkness to Light Training Proposal coming to Solano County

My colleague Hazel Payne and I, are both survivors of child sexual abuse. We come to you with a passionate mission to educate the adults in our Solano County community, who work with or interact with children in any capacity. Our goal is to educate these adults on how to…

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