[Image of sunlight from the sun rising over shadowed hills. Photo by Mia Mingus]

[Image of sunlight from the sun rising over shadowed hills. Photo by Mia Mingus]

Ending the Secrecy 

A survivor shares how they navigated their family and created space for themselves after being sexually abused by their sister, and how surviving child sexual abuse transformed their parenting.

Part 1: I Survived This Thing is about their journey realizing they were a survivor of child sexual abuse and the actions they decided to take within their family to end the secrecy and create what they needed.

Part 2: We Cannot Be Led By Fear is about how being a survivor of child sexual abuse transformed how they parented their daughter. 

Please practice self care with these stories.

My mom always taught us about predators. She did. She talked about men who touch and rape, men who do this and men who do that; but it was always men and it was strangers. It was never, your sister could do this or a family member could do this.