
Blog

Want to help the teen(s) in your life? Start now.
We all deserve to have healthy relationships, no matter our age. We all have the capacity to learn and develop skills to enable us to promote and embody healthy relationships. If we want young people to have safe and healthy relationships, we, the adults- the ones with the power- need to take responsibility for our own learning and healing. In doing so, we can create the space and opportunities necessary for young people to create meaningful and long-lasting change.

How to Support a Loved One who is Experiencing Abuse (and why this can be so hard)
When we are face to face with the person we love who is being controlled and abused in their relationship, our job is not to fix and it is not to take over. Our job is to listen.

The Necessity of Joy
If I am dedicated to creating more joy and abundance for others, I have to recognize how my own attachment to suffering and a scarcity mindset were antithetical to what I was working to achieve. For me, violence prevention work is grounded in a belief and a hope in our capacity- individually and collectively- to heal and make real and lasting change. I cannot facilitate change if I have not allowed myself to experience it. I cannot cultivate the possibility of joy for others if I don’t think I deserve to feel it.