Remembering and Moving Forward: Reaching for Safety

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “When Americans lend a hand to one another, nothing is impossible. We’re not about what happened on 9/11. We’re about what happened on 9/12.” —Jeff Parness, founder of New York Says Thank You It was my Sophomore year at college. I was not, and am not, a morning person, so my first […]

Remembering and Moving Forward: 20+ Years in the Making

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH Guest blogger, Lydia Judd likens our nation’s experience after 9/11 of increasing our external safety and how we need to look inward and increase our internal safety as well. I don’t remember much from when I was four years old. I’ve seen pictures of my Barbie birthday cake covered in candles while […]

Finding Certainty in Uncertainty

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “Looking deeper, we could say that the real cause of suffering is not being able to tolerate uncertainty.” ~Pema Chödrön Before March 2020, we could make plans and carry them out with relative ease. Now, however, we book a flight knowing that the trip might not happen. We plan a trip for […]

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Dear Adult Survivor of Sexual Abuse, I See & Hear You

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH “Don’t judge yourself by what others did to you.” ~ C. Kennedy, Ómorphi Did you know that every 73 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted? One in six American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. Females 16-19 are four times more likely to be […]

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It’s Not Your Fault: Date Rape

DESIGNED BY UNSPLASH Every 73 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted. One in six American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. Females 16-19 are four times more likely to be victims, and women aged 18-24 are three times more likely to experience sexual violence.  April is Sexual […]