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Last Day to Get Freebies {a joyful reminder}

I sure hope you had an amazing Valentine’s Day. We have three February birthdays this month (mine, hubby’s, Aidan’s), so sometimes Valentines gets relegated to second place. This blog post is a quick reminder that if you’d like the free healing resources (See post here for details) you will need to purchase Not Marked by […]

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Trauma MESSES with you

I received a message from a friend who hadn’t been sexually abused, but she had experienced the trauma of divorce as a child. She said she was learning how to heal from that, so reading Not Marked has helped her. We survive many traumas in our lives, but we tend to minimize each trauma’s impact. […]

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World Premier of the Not Marked Book Trailer!

I’m just so very happy to share this with you today! The first part is me telling a bit of my story. The bulk of the video is cardboard testimonies of people who have walked through sexual abuse, and then there’s some hope added to the end for good measure. The main gist? You are […]

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That Time I Felt Totally Awkward

So I went to the IF: Gathering with my dear friend Lisa Whittle this last week. This on the heels of reading Not Marked for the audio book. So I was pretty darn drained in the aftermath. Imagine reading (and re-reading) about sexual abuse to an audience of two, one person who is checking your […]

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Happy Birthday, Aidan!

Today my son is eighteen years old. He’s six foot four, intelligent, thoughtful and amazing. (Yes, I’m a biased mom.) I can’t wait to see what God will do with his life in the coming years. Here are 18 things I love about Aidan. He has a heart for the less fortunate. When he was […]

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Buy Not Marked & Get Free Healing Resources

Today is the day. The official day Not Marked releases. I’m full of fear and excitement and a little heartburn (if you want true honesty). The book started from a viral blog post, morphed into something I pitched to publishers (they said no), became a crowdfunding campaign (you said YES), and is now a book […]

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I Stand for Sexual Abuse Victims

I ache when I hear or read about sexual assault. I simply cannot handle it. It’s even worse when I see the church perpetrating it or covering it up. When I learn about a powerful person perpetrating against the weak, I’m back in the schoolyard, wanting to duke it out with the bully. Problem is, […]

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When You’re Afraid to be Naked

You know the dream, right? You’re sitting in your high school Calculus class, taking some sort of terrible test, and you look down and realize you’re wearing no clothes. Bucknaked You runs through the hallways, trying to shield yourself, though your antics prove useless. No matter what you do, or how hard you try to […]

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How to Protect Your Children from Sexual Abuse

This is an excerpt from Not Marked: Finding Hope and Healing After Sexual Abuse. In the aftermath of Dylan Farrow’s story of her own sexual abuse and attempts to remedy her situation, we once again see how important it is to be vigilant, connected, aware parents. Before we look at ways to protect our kids, […]

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When you are enslaved to a taskmaster (you!) and how to be set free

I’ve heard this before: Don’t “should” all over yourself. Oh dear. Guilty. As Not Marked is readying for release a week from today, I’m scarily buried under a weight of shoulds. I should try to be on more radio stations. I should write more guest posts. I should create more giveaways. I should jump at […]

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