Broken to Brilliant

It began with fluttering excitement, joy, and a world full of possibilities. There was a slow chiseling away of me. I felt disbelief and foggy confusion before the ugly reality of abuse dawned on me. How do you live through the shattering effects of domestic violence and abuse inflicted by a...

"People congratulated me when I left my abusive marriage, but I didn’t feel like celebrating. I felt loss, grief, shame, anger, resentment, regret, uncertainty, relief and excitement. How can one person feel so many emotions at once? Where could I go for help? Who would understand?" From these...

"That would never happen to me. I'm too strong. I would walk out." Those were KC Andrews' thoughts as a trainee nurse listening to a lecture on domestic violence. But when it happened to her, it took years to finally leave....