by Deb | Apr 25, 2018 | Change, Transition and Transformation
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” Rumi In his article in the April 16, 2018 issue of the New Yorker, Author and Pulitzer-Prize winner Junot Diaz breaks his years of silence about being sexually assaulted as a child. His heart-rending account, which...
by Deb | Apr 18, 2018 | Change, Transition and Transformation
Wispy memories: My father fondling me when I was a toddler. Dragging me around my room by my ankles when I was twelve while, in my mind’s eye, my mother is downstairs in the kitchen calmly drinking a martini. I had no voice, no protection, no power. Sexual abuse tears...
by Deb | Apr 13, 2018 | Change, Transition and Transformation
In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, I want to highlight the #SayHerName Campaign, which focuses on the need to call attention to police violence against Black women and women of color. This violence remains largely invisible and ignored in the media coverage...
by Deb | Apr 6, 2018 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Healing
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center has announced that the theme for this year’s Sexual Awareness Month is “Embrace Your Voice.” For all women and girls to be able to embrace their voices, however, we have to break the taboo on talking about sexual...
by Deb | Nov 22, 2017 | Change, Transition and Transformation
Tracee Ellis Ross gave a powerful speech at Glamour’s 2017 Women of the Year Summit. She spoke about how writing the words “My life is mine,” in her journal brought tears to her eyes. Writing those words, she realized she hadn’t been living her life as if it was...
by Deb | Jul 10, 2017 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Healing, Quilt of Humanity
What is the truth that you want to speak? I spoke mine in my just-published memoir, Mystery of Memory: Telling My Truth, Standing My Ground. The following quote describes what propelled me to move forward and complete this difficult journey: “Confront the...
