I had a gap year between college and marriage. Spending it in Colorado changed me forever — and foreshadowed how it would become my forever home.

What does telling the truth cost?

“Who are you screaming at?”

Instead of trading one form of self-punishment for another, it's possible to swap our scars for art.

Hear me say it clearly: if you're not better, that doesn't make you bad.

Who do we allow to tell our story, and why?

This frigid, chilling weekend in the United States, a 25 year old movie franchise was in the top 10 at the box office.

For everyone who loves me through my illness

Have you lost something dear to you? It can be found.

I went to work for the first time around 8 years old. It changed my relationship to myself forever.

Meta description: Human trafficking affects mental health in severe and long-lasting ways. These are some outcomes for survivors.

Why I've chosen not to have children of my own, and why that doesn't mean I am absolved from mothering.

My phone rang all day on April 13, 2023.

Recovery means accepting you will sometimes slide.

Is Stockholm syndrome real? How are Stockholm syndrome and human trafficking related? Learn more about this type of trauma bond.

I find myself realizing I can lose sight of the stakes in mental health conversations.

It's International Women's Day, and I'm thinking about how survivors of sex trafficking have made me a better woman.

Falling in love felt like my greatest sin.

The pre-dawn hours are my least favorite, but it didn’t matter one morning in Memphis: I was in love.

Online grooming is a predatory behavior that has become one of the most pervasive online dangers today. Here’s how to spot grooming and what to do about it.

The sticky air of early Tennessee summer clung to my skin as 13 patients and a facilitating therapist sat under the slow-lapping sound waves of a Taylor Swift ballad.

The carpet ground against the skin of my face, my hip bone stabbing into the floor.

Maybe every hometown is a ghost town, a haunted monument to the selves we left behind.