by Shelby Ketchen | Sep 14, 2019 | Domestic Violence, Leaving
Emerging from a domestic violence situation into the sun feels an awful lot like bursting through the barricades that separate dark from light. Your barricades might include fear, financial difficulties, isolation, hopelessness, religious beliefs, and so many other...
by Beth Simpson | Sep 5, 2019 | Domestic Violence
Having one of those days when your abuser or memories of them have you feeling down and/or doubting your worth? Don’t let the devil get you down. YOU ARE LOVED. YOU ARE WORTHY. YOU ARE AMAZING. Just. The. Way. You. Are. There’s a song by Lauren Daigle that Reach Out...
by Shelby Ketchen | Aug 24, 2019 | Domestic Violence
The years I spent in a relationship with my abuser didn’t end when I moved out of the house, got married, and started my own family. What I had learned over the twenty plus years of cohabitation with my abuser became my way of living as an adult. I lived day to day as...
by Shelby Ketchen | Aug 17, 2019 | Domestic Violence
As I mentioned last week, as a young adult, I was forced to do the things my abuser wanted me to do. Instead of playing baseball, hockey, basketball and spending time with other guys and my guy friends, I was forced to spend countless hours at the roller skating rink...
by Paul Porter | Aug 13, 2019 | Domestic Violence
My mother had to be in control of everything and everyone. She would tell my father what to do, how to do it, and when to do it. Rather than cause a confrontation, he would just comply and consider it “his cross to bear.” Things with me were not much different than...
