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  • Are You Ready to Roar with Me?

    Posted by BilliJoy on August 12, 2019

    I am a one-percenter. No, not that one percent. This one: one percent of children who were trafficked for sex survive to adulthood. Even fewer of us thrive through the briars of the trauma to …

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  • Finding Your Worth: The Story of a Tucker Car

    Posted by BilliJoy on August 7, 2019August 8, 2019

    When I speak, I share analogies to help people understand deeper truths. This is the one I use to help people understand trauma and the survivor: The Tucker Car In 1948, Preston Tucker developed fifty …

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  • Success & Fear: When Exhaustion Whispers

    Posted by BilliJoy on August 2, 2019

    There is an ancient story that tonight, I feel in my bones. The moment after a great victory can be a time of intense need. It’s like rawness intersects with both truth and our vulnerability …

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  • May 21 — Painiversary, Reclaim the Day

    Posted by BilliJoy on May 22, 2019May 24, 2019

    May 21. It’s the day that I work so hard to reclaim every year. The day I was 26. Alone. Attacked. Beaten. Raped. Left. But it does not belong to them. It is mine. And …

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  • One Year Breaking Free

    Posted by BilliJoy on May 20, 2019May 24, 2019

    One year ago today (19th) one of my rapists was released from prison—two days before the anniversary of the day he attacked, raped, and left me for dead (21st). He wasn’t serving time for rape. …

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  • Triggers, Cameras, & Victory

    Posted by BilliJoy on April 18, 2019May 24, 2019

    For all those who know my healing journey: tomorrow I am going to be interviewed ON CAMERA about my warrioring to help survivors (ACESDV Thrive Three Heart Award). <healing rewind> Cameras were a huge part …

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  • Advocacy Out of Reach?

    Posted by BilliJoy on March 26, 2019May 24, 2019

    Four years, four months, four days ago. Everywhere I looked, the news, articles, social media, and tv, blasted the pictures of the two men who raped me and beckoned anyone who knew anything about them …

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  • Adult Coloring Book for Survivors of Trauma

    Posted by BilliJoy on January 29, 2019May 24, 2019

    Rising Up in an Uprising: Adult Coloring Book for Survivors of Trauma by BilliJoy Carson It is finally here! The feedback has been amazing from survivors, allies, social workers, advocates, and therapists. Find out how …

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  • The Man Women’s March Was For

    Posted by BilliJoy on January 20, 2019May 24, 2019

    Real talk. Today at the Kick at Darkness table, a man came up. He asked what we did. He was the fourth man I spoke to and I was excited how many male allies were …

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  • Wild Blackberry Bushes of Trauma

    Posted by BilliJoy on November 15, 2018May 24, 2019

    I was born in Oregon. But I have very little memory of it. When I was four, the desert became my home. The land that has prickly pears and citrus. We aren’t known for fresh …

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