Childhood Sexual Abuse and Food Part One: Why do I have gut issues?
Healing your heart and your mind often starts with making peace with your body (and, as a result. how you nourish that body). In the next series of blog posts, I am going to do a deep dive into the big...
View ArticleDo you know your rights in New Jersey? [video]
I had the honor to host a survivor-centric informercial on victims' rights in New Jersey. If you were sexually abused as a child in that state, you need to watch - time is running out. The post Do you...
View ArticleSchool for Scandal 101: Santa Ana’s Mater Dei High School
Recent hazing and violence lawsuits against Mater Dei have alerted a lot of noses to a stink that has been brewing for years: decades of child sexual abuse, hazing, and cover-up at the infamous high...
View ArticleIs your NorCal priest on the list?
The allegations are gruesome: The Rev. Watt was accused in a lawsuit of taking an altar boy in the mid-1970s to gay bars in San Francisco, getting him drunk, sexually abusing him and telling him,...
View ArticleComing Soon
I was asked to contribute a chapter in an upcoming book on healing wisdom for survivors. Pre-orders on how to break the “victim mentality” coming soon! Be sure to check back. The post Coming Soon...
View ArticleIt’s Gonna be a Bad Year for Predator Celebrities
Yesterday, five women sued Bill Cosby for sexual in New York State under that state’s new “Adult Victims Act.” The law, which gives adult survivors of sexual assault a one-year window to use the civil...
View ArticleSanta Rosa Catholic Diocese to Declare Bankruptcy
First CA diocese ducks for cover as a result of AB 218 It was inevitable. And there is SO MUCH to unpack. In a statement last week, Diocese of Santa Rosa Bishop Robert Vasa said that the northern...
View ArticleDoes a new federal law apply to diocese lay review boards?
Here are a boatload of questions for you: Last week, Joe Biden signed the bipartisan Speak Out Act. According to PBS Newshour: President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed legislation curbing the use of...
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