01/23/2026
Is interesting now as I enter into this new project.. ... Victims of domestic violence suffer in "soul" many ways and for so long. They deal with the after effects, even after they lose their abusers or so-called lose them. On a personal level, the person that abused me physically was able to abuse me through the courts afterwards because of shared children. I'm sharing this now as it took me a minute to utilize my agency to process a very painful season in my life.
I pray that this project helps to assist women who are struggling and I mean struggling with not only leaving the abuser but the abuse that happens after they left.
It's not just something that's physical, but it can be dragged on through the legal process. And if there's any children involved through any associations that have to do with children, I pray that we find ways to have better family relationships and to learn how to love one another because when it comes to this issue of domestic violence, we sure find ways to hate each other. I posted a picture of this waiting room because I was in that space yesterday while advocating for survivors and it reminded me of how I sat in this very waiting room and endured the after effects of domestic violence, which I thought I had escaped almost a decade earlier. Only for it to return in another form. The tyrannical and diabolical effect of domestic violence has yet to really be assessed. However, I throw my hat in... utilizing my agency in order to allow some comfort to a woman who has to sit in this courthouse waiting room just like I did years ago.
