Originally published on Upworthy on October 10, 2016 By Robbie Couch. Elliot Costello met Thea in 2013 after she’d been rescued from two years of physical and sexual abuse in a Cambodian orphanage. Thea ended up there after her father, the family’s sole breadwinner, died. Losing her father wasn’t just…
Are PTSD Survivors Weak? Here’s What My Mom Thinks PTSD is Not a Weakness. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is anything but a weakness. It is our strength. It means that we kept going. · Trauma is common. About six of every 10 US adults experience at least one trauma in…
Originally published in The Vacaville Reporter on October 3, 2016 By Kimberly K. Fu. Kimberly K. Fu — The Reporter It’s almost time for the Great Scavenger Hunt of 2016 in Vacaville, a community leader’s birthday fundraiser slated to benefit the Vacaville Neighborhood Boys & Girls Club. In just under…
Originally published in the Los Angeles Times on September 30, 2016 By Jazmine Ulloa. Months after outrage over the six-month sentence for sexual assault given to former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday broadened the power of judges to treat sex crimes as rape at sentencing and…
