Stop Child Abuse Now
1,421 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMonday to Friday's "Stop Child Abuse Now" (SCAN) feature trauma informed HOSTs and Co-hosts and respected child abuse prevention, intervention and recovery advocates. They're all volunteers members of the National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse (NAASCA), a 501(c)3.
Founded in 2009, NAASCA.org was originally a grassroots effort. It was launched based on our founder Bill Murray's personal life experienced. Bill wrote, "Very few adults escape years of severe childhood sexual abuse, pre-pubescent X-rated photography, sex trafficking, and a two week long kidnapping." He continued. "But I have, and for some 35 years I've been in recovery from its devastating effects."
After years of operating as a grassroots effort, NAASCA became a public charity in 2015 .. a 501(c)3 .. but we receive no grants or outside support, and belong to no other organization. There are no dues or fees.
Our MISSION is entirely self-sustaining through the volunteer contributions of our members.
The single purpose is to address issues related to childhood abuse and trauma including sexual assault, violent or physical abuse, emotional traumas and neglect from two specific perspectives: 1) educating the public, and 2) offering hope for healing and services to adult survivors.
There are now nearly 3000 BlogTalkRadio shows, podcasts in the ever-growing library.
Join us five-nights-a-week (Mon to Fri), at 8pm EST (so 7pm CEN, 6pm MTN, 5pm PAC) for solution-oriented discussions about the many issues of child abuse and trauma. The shows always include panel discussions and call-in participation.
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Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2680
June 12, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41 MBTonight's special guest is Lavinia Masters from Dallas, Texas, whose mother divorced her father when she was 2 months old. "My childhood sexual abuse had to start at an early age, before 5 years of age," she says. "I do not remember who the abuser or abusers were because the memories did not return into my late 30's after I started advocating for victims and the rape-kit backlog," explaining, "I was brutally raped at the age of 13 years old by a stranger that broke into our home." She also h...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2679
June 11, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight's special co-host is Dr. Lena G. Clark from Alpharetta, Georgia, a Domestic Violence survivor, coach and author. She's an expert in the area of mental health. "My abuse was domestic abuse by my husband," she explains, "who committed suicide after being diagnosed with depression and schizophren...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2678
June 10, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.5 MBTonight's special guest is Jane Epstein from San Mateo, California, an activist now whose sexual abuse began when she was six years old. "My brother, my abuser," she explains, "was 12 when it started. The sexual abuse went on and off for six years." She goes on, "I have been in and out of therapy most of my life. It started when my parents got divorced, but the sexual abuse did not come up until I was severely depressed at age 45." Negative effects still linger and she can't be intimate. Jan...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2677
June 09, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be Lori Golden from San Diego, California, a survivor and a private psychotherapist working with other trauma and abuse survivors. Lori shares, “I am a survivor of incest. My father sexually abused me from the age of 5 to 16. When the sun went down, I was filled with t...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2676
June 08, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBTonight's special guest is Alisa Starr from Seattle, Washington, who was molested at 13 by a 22-year-old family friend. It lasted for 9 months. "It was the first time a boy had had feelings for me Alisa says, "so at first I felt flattered. But there was shame and secrecy in the 'relationship'." She goes on, "My abuser wanted to marry me. Promising to marry someone at 13 quickly lost its luster. And he was an emotional succubus. I ended our relationship after 9 months." But that wasn't the e...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2675
June 05, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41 MBTonight's special guest is Brian Toale from New York City, NY, who grew up in a middle-class suburban Catholic family on Long Island. He explains, "I went to Catholic School through high school, where I was sexually abused by the Amateur Radio Club's moderator for most of my senior year." Brian goes on, "Senior Year is supposed to be a time of college preparation and has far-reaching effects on one's future career and life, especially in an elite private school like mine." He explains, "Becau...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2674
June 04, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be Michelle Bless from Cincinnati, a survivor of severe child abuse who's now a Minister and Chaplain. She'll appear on the 1st Thursday of each month and is the author of the book "Out of Darkness: the Michelle Bless Story," her story of redemption. In 1997, Michelle ...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2673
June 03, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBTonight's special guest is Amanda Blackwood from Thornton, Colorado, a child abuse victim, activist and author, who grew up in a military family and has lived all over the world. Her father was physically violent (ages 3 to 18), her mother was emotionally and psychologically abusive (ages 0 to 32) and her my brother abused Amanda both sexually and emotionally (age 4 and age 12). "I was sexually abused by my uncle (age 13)," she says. "The childhood abuse started for me at such a young age th...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2672
June 02, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.1 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight's special co host will be Dr. Tina Medina from Kansas City, Kansas, sexually molested as a child by her uncle. In recovery, Tina is now a professional writer specializing in public relations, community/media relations, technical and grant writing. "My book series explains how God is capable of...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2671
June 01, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.8 MBTonight's special guest is Gregory Williams, Ph.D, from Houston, Texas, a child abuse survivor and author of the book 'Shattered by the Darkness: Putting the Pieces Back Together after Child Abuse'. An activist now, he was abused in his family. "My first memory of being sexually abused by my father was when I was 4 years old and the last time was right before my 17th birthday. My dad sexually abused me every day of my childhood and then around 12 years old started involving his friends and s...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2670
May 29, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.1 MBTonight's special guest is Janet Simmons from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, an American, born in Japan in the mid 1950s and raised there with her siblings. Their parents had moved there to do missionary work. A well known marine biologist and teacher, Jack Moyer, famed for publishing a book with Jane Goodall, began sexually abusing Janet while she was only eleven years old. "The abuse started very covertly with a walk with the dogs, a cup of coffee, a massage," Janet explains. "Quickly it escalated...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2669
May 28, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.8 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight's special co-host will be?. ~~ On these episodes we welcome various co-hosts, survivor-professionals who'll assist in fielding questions and lead a variety of topics suggested by our call-in participants. Their trauma-informed perspectives as survivor-professionals will help them guide discuss...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2668
May 27, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBTonight's special guest is Jennifer Michele from Walker, Louisiana, whose 'New Daddy' came into the picture when her mother married her new husband when Jennifer was around 7 years old. "Life was never the same again," she says. "The grooming started before they married and finding every reason to hold me, sitting on his lap while touching, caressing and slipping hands in the wrong places." She goes on, "It quickly progressed to long soapy showers to make sure I was clean in the middle of the...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2667
May 26, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.5 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be Pastor Deborah Schleich, who grew up all over the world in a military family where her mother was mentally ill, and is now a survivor-professional. Living in Pensacola, Florida, she's trained in ministry, mental health, working with substance abuse and is a trauma i...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2666
May 25, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41 MBTonight's special guest is Randy Lail from Charleston, South Carolina, who was abused by his father. He explains, "My abuse started when I was 3 and ended at 14. A lot of my abuse memories were repressed for many years but through therapy I have recovered most of them. The early years were just with Dad. I didn’t like what he was doing to me. On some level it felt wrong, but it also had a weird sense of normalcy to it." Randy explains, "I am 60 this year. I was the youngest of 4, a sister and...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2665
May 22, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.7 MBTonight's special guest is Diana Strong from Hot Springs, Arkansas, who was abused by her step-father from 3 years old until just before she turned 18, when she finally ran away from home. "Then I married a man that continued the abuse cycle," she says. "I have been diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, PTSD, Depression and Anxiety. These are 'scars' I carry with me every day. Only those that get really close can see them. At 54 years old, I still struggle in my relationships due to ...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2664
May 21, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be Dr Jaime Romo from San Diego, California, an educator, consultant, author, and Commissioned Minister, who promotes healing from abuse and the prevention of child sexual abuse, particularly abuse by religious authorities or in the context of religious settings. A wor...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2663
May 20, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41 MBTonight's special guest is Dr. Laura Jean McGuire from New York City, a nationally recognized sexuality educator, trauma-informed specialist, and inclusion consultant who has worked with young adult survivors as well as teen parents struggling to break the cycle of abuse. Although not a survivor of child abuse, Laura did survive domestic violence. Her personal experiences and her work with others has led her to see connections between all forms of abuse. She now has made the goal of “creating...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2662
May 19, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight's special co host will be Sharyn Higdon Jones, a licensed psychotherapist for over 35 years with individuals, couples and families who have experienced the trauma of abuse. In her words: “The pain of being sexually abused is deep and profound. The abuse experience touches the core of a woman's...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2661
May 18, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.7 MBTonight's special guest is Claire O’Leary from New Castle, Colorado. "I was raised in a catholic family by my natural parents," she says, "with six kids (3 boys and 3 girls), I being right in the middle. The first time I was abused was at 5-years-old by my uncle. The second time was much more painful with my father abusing me from 16 to 18 when I finally was able to leave home after graduating from high school." She goes on, "I was angry all the time but didn't really know why until I went to...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2660
May 15, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.8 MBTonight's special guest is Makayla Boatman from Stephenville, Texas, who grew up in a physical, emotional, spiritual and sexually abusive household. "My father physically, mentally and spiritually abused us," she says. "My nana mentally abused us. My oldest brother sexually abused me. I cannot honestly remember a time in my life where there was no abuse." She left the family as soon as she could. "When I was 18 the morning after I graduated high school (May 2019) I moved out and have not look...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2659
May 14, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be Barbara Joy Hansen from Milford, Massachusetts, a child abuse survivor and Violence Prevention Expert. Her book, 'Listen to the Cry of the Child,' is where she shares her journey. As an activist, Barbara can regularly be found carrying the messages of prevention, in...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2658
May 13, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.7 MBTonight's special guest is HelenMarie McCracken from Tucson, Arizona, telling her story with us for the first time. HelenMarie serves as the NAASCA Ambassador program's Pacific Southwest Regional Director. She says, "My children and my life experience are what attracted me to become an activist and advocate for domestic violence and child abuse." There was sexual assault in her family, too, but while domestic violence is typically not included in the legal definitions of child abuse, NAASCA r...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2657
May 12, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.5 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight's special guest will be Lori Golden from San Diego, California, a survivor and a private psychotherapist working with other trauma and abuse survivors. Lori shares, “I am a survivor of incest. My father sexually abused me from the age of 5 to 16. When the sun went down, I was filled with terro...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2656
May 11, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.7 MBTonight's special guest is Denise Bossarte from Houston, Texas, abused by her maternal grandfather beginning in elementary school. She explains, "I was always afraid to be alone around my grandfather although I never really understood why as a child. I went from an outgoing, creative kid to a shy, ashamed kid afraid of people. The abuse lasted until I was in high school." Denise says, "I still carry a lot of stress in my body, my body remembers being afraid and is constantly prepared for gett...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2655
May 08, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41 MBTonight's special guest is Amanda Goudeau from Houston, Texas, whose parents began to abuse her when she was three years old. "About the age of 7," she says, "I was molested by the husband of a babysitter. I was isolated and in a constant state of fear. The physical abuse lasted for 21 years. However, 22-25 years old was emotionally, verbally, and psychologically abused via phone calls and text messages." Now Amanda tries to help others on YouTube. "The major feelings that I experienced durin...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2654
May 07, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.1 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be Michelle Bless from Cincinnati, a survivor of severe child abuse who's now a Minister and Chaplain. She'll appear on the 1st Thursday of each month and is the author of the book "Out of Darkness: the Michelle Bless Story," her story of redemption. In 1997, Michelle ...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2653
May 06, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBTonight's special guest is Lisa Zarcone from Springfield, Massachusetts, a returning NAASCA family member and the NAASCA Ambassador for her state. A child abuse survivor and activist, she's the author of 'The Unspoken Truth, A Memoir.' Her book is about childhood neglect and abuse at the hands of her severely mentally ill mother and others. Lisa says, "I wrote my story to promote awareness for mental health issues, child safety and to bring a voice to so many who have the same unspoken truth ...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2652
May 05, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be Hilda Thomasine Wren from Frederick, Maryland, a strong voice on behalf of adult survivors of child abuse and a member of the clergy. She worked at Maryland hospitals with rape victims and is a chaplin who works with hospitals and hospice. She is healed now after st...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2651
May 04, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.9 MBTonight's special guest is Kathleen Niestadt from Louisville, Kentucky. "My paternal grandfather was my abuser," she reveals. "The abuse started right before my 5th birthday. The feelings I had growing up was mostly numbness, depression, anxiety, and fear." Kathleen further explains, "My family was in the next room in my view when he told me he knew I liked what he was doing because I was not making him stop. He continued doing things to me and when I was 7, he first raped me." Healing hasn'...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2650
May 01, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBTonight's special guest is Ed Squire from Denver, Colorado. " My father, his brothers, and sister were sexually abused as children by their stepfather," Ed reports, "who was the same man that sexually abused me. I was sexually abused from age four until ten by three different men." He goes on, "I mostly felt confused when I was four years old because I didn't understand what was happening to me and I learned how to disassociate while I was being abused as I got older, but I remember the feeli...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2649
April 30, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight's special guest will be Bill Murray from Los Angeles, our founder. Bill's recovery is 12 Step-based and spans some 3 and a half decades. Sexually abused by numerous clerics, all men, between the ages of 11 and mid-way through high school, a minor seminary, he was also the victim of pre-pubesce...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2648
April 29, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.9 MBTonight's special guest is Jeremy Bryant from Austin, Texas. Jeremy is the baby of 7 kids, and his abuse started at the age of 6. He was molested by his step brother, the oldest of the 7 siblings. The abuse lasted 10 years. At the age of 16 Jeremy reported the abuse to his family. His family told him that he was lying and just wanted money. Jeremy took off from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, at that time and went to California and became a male prostitute. Jeremy chose an alternative lifestyle for ...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2647
April 28, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be Pastor Deborah Schleich, who grew up all over the world in a military family where her mother was mentally ill, and is now a survivor-professional. Living in Pensacola, Florida, she's trained in ministry, mental health, working with substance abuse and is a trauma i...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2646
April 27, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBTonight's special guest is Kirsten Oliver from Ft Worth, Texas, who has memories of sexual abuse at age of 3 to 8 years old. "I was molested by my mother's best friend's boyfriend," she says. "My mother let this man babysit me. I would numb myself and I was terrorized and disgusted. I would throw up afterwards. I peed my pants a lot." Kirsten was later abused by her stepmother. "I am working through a lot of pain and heartache and loneliness. I started on my healing journey when I was 41 beca...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2645
April 24, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBTonight's special guest is Angela Turpin from Fresno, California, a child abuse survivor, coach and author. She was abused emotionally, mentally, physically, and sexually, emotional and mentally by her mother. "My mom married the man that was abusing me sexually which started was around 3 years old," Angela says. "The sexual and physical abuse stopped around 7 or 8 years old. I endured mental and emotional abuse until I was 18." After struggling in her personal life and not knowing why, Ange...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2644
April 23, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Our survivor/ profeesional guest tonight is Pamela Elaine Lockridge. She was pimped by her mother to her second husband; as a child sex slave from the age of 4-18. She understands the depths of terror and long-lasting mental anguish that comes along with this type of trauma. Her story tells of her fi...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2643
April 22, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.1 MBTonight's special guest is Kim Lakin from Littleton, Colorado, a child abuse survivor and activist who's the founder of 'Soar On Eagles Wings', where she teaches about prevention and intervention. Kim's an Authorized Instructor and Certified Facilitator for Darkness to Light, Stewards of Children; as well as a facilitator for The Monique Burr Foundation. She speaks from her own experience, "My abuse started when I was 5 years old, with the cousin of my friend, who lived across the street. It ...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2642
April 21, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight's special co host will be Sharyn Higdon Jones, a licensed psychotherapist for over 35 years with individuals, couples and families who have experienced the trauma of abuse. In her words: “The pain of being sexually abused is deep and profound. The abuse experience touches the core of a woman's...
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2641
April 20, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.7 MBTonight's special guest is Lindsay Songer from Kentucky, whose mother was sexually abused by her mother’s second husband from the age of four to eighteen. "Her PTSD is what I had to deal with during my early years of development until I left home at age 17," Lindsay reports. "This meant that all my childhood and adolescent growth was hindered by mental and emotional second hand trauma." She explains, "My first memory of being emotionally abused by my mother was when she homeschooled me in se...
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April 17, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBTonight's special guest is Sean Wheeler from Loveland, Colorado. He says, "Being groomed and sexualized even before entering kindergarten was confusing and fearful. Traffickers like to keep their victims afraid and they did a good job with me. Three things summarize those feelings: shame, guilt and fear." Sean continues, "When my parents divorced and my mom found a new job in another state I was able to escape that network, but the damage was done. There was not just one abuser, and I was off...
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April 16, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.9 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be Dr Jaime Romo from San Diego, California, an educator, consultant, author, and Commissioned Minister, who promotes healing from abuse and the prevention of child sexual abuse, particularly abuse by religious authorities or in the context of religious settings. A wor...
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April 15, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBTonight's special guest is Doug Probst from Long Beach, California, a professional musician who survived horrible child abuse, in and out of the system, in prison and on the streets. He chronicled his story in his book, 'Mayotte: Musings Of A Narcissist: A Survivor's Story', saying, "It's a brutally honest description of my childhood, which was scarred with physical and sexual abuse by my parents, priests, probation officers and others who were my authority figures in the LA County Probation...
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April 14, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight's special guest will be Lori Golden from San Diego, California, a survivor and a private psychotherapist working with other trauma and abuse survivors. Lori shares, “I am a survivor of incest. My father sexually abused me from the age of 5 to 16. When the sun went down, I was filled with terro...
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April 13, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41 MBTonight's special guest is Mike Tikkanen from Hopkins, Minnesota, a returning NAASCA family member. He's perfect for appearing in April, Child Abuse Awareness month. Mike is all about working on prevention and intervention in his home state. The founder and President of 'Kids at Risk Action' (KARA), a non-profit action tank that supports the people, policies, and programs that improve the lives of at-risk children. Mike knows all the statistics of child abuse. He recently worked on a local PS...
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April 10, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBTonight's special guest is Tona Buck from Trenton, New Jersey, whose father was never in her life. "I started being sexually abused at the age of 3 by my mom's then-boyfriend I called him dad," she says. "I was young so being abused was normal, this was the way my abuser showed me how he loved me, as he would abuse me, he would tell me how I was a good girl and how much he loved me. I was abused until I was 7 years old. Eventually, I was able to get away from my abuser when he moved out." To...
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April 09, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be Barbara Joy Hansen from Milford, Massachusetts, a child abuse survivor and Violence Prevention Expert. Her book, 'Listen to the Cry of the Child,' is where she shares her journey. As an activist, Barbara can regularly be found carrying the messages of prevention, in...
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April 08, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.8 MBTonight's special guest is Cathlene Miner from St. Augustine, Florida, whose mother had her at 15. They lived across the street from her grandparents. "Mom grew up in a very abusive home, her father would abuse my grandmother and all of the children." She says, "For my grandmother it lasted till she passed away from a brain injury." Cathlene explains, "From being exposed to domestic abuse as a third-party since a very young age I always wondered why people stay and why abusers do what they do...
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April 07, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.8 MBQ & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be Thomasine Wren from Frederick, Maryland, a strong voice on behalf of adult survivors of child abuse and a member of the clergy. She worked at Maryland hospitals with rape victims and is a chaplin who works with hospitals and hospice. She is healed now after stayin...
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April 06, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.1 MBTonight's special guest is Nicole Fontaine from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the youngest of 10 children. "My parents are residential school survivors," she says, ".. they grew up in Church run schools. Unhealthy relationships are a norm in our community so the abuse was always there. I was sexual abused by a close family member around the age of 5." Nicole goes on, "I grew up in a home that had unhealthy family dynamics, abuse was happening all around. It was mental, emotional, sexual and sp...