$11.5 Trillion
💲💲💲 Money Money Report 2026 We are very keen on counting the money. Well, let us count $11.5 trillion, based on approximately 8.5 million survivors in Canada. The Lifetime Cost of Child Sexual Violence The lifetime cost of child sexual violence is estimated at $1.47 million per survivor (Peterson et al., 2018). But that number […]
Boys + Girls + Disabled +Child Sexual Violence = $
Yesterday, I shared statistics focused on girls. Why? Because when it comes to economic impact, women are still undervalued. Today, we include the boys. To be clear, I have not yet factored in the wage gap between men and women for the same work. That comes next. These numbers are staggering. But what’s worse is […]
St. Patrick’s Day: We Remember Them
On St. Patrick’s Day, we remember. The dates tell the story.
Females + Disabled Females +Child Sexual Violence = $
This is a story about females, child sexual violence and money. Why do numbers hit harder than words? Tragedy becomes a number and numbers become scale. Scale is impossible to ignore. The infographic $ focus is for FEMALES only. Stay tuned for the everyone. But take a look at 1984. This is what Canada’s researchers […]
Where Beauty Meets Pain
When I write, I process my emotions. When I breathe, I feel them fully. When I move in silence, I invite the pain and in doing so I discover the beauty hidden within it. Sometimes it takes days, weeks, months, even years, but it always arrives. The wisdom is carried in both the beauty and […]
Two Truths: Power, Control, Vulnerability and Responsibility
Quotes of the Day – Mandela and Skinner
Quote of the Day – Franz Kafka
Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
With the exception of cutting myself, this list describes what my typical day looked like for more than five decades, until I began writing about the child sexual violence I endured. Writing helped me begin the journey, but the deeper healing, the kind that happens at a cellular level, did not begin until I started […]
Do You Have 26min to Love Yourself?
Do you have 26 minutes to love yourself? On mornings when I have an early appointment, I find a FREE short yoga class on Wellness Club.aloyoga.com, it is exactly what I need to get level before the day begins. One of my favourite instructors is Annie Moves. I love my morning yoga. I love my […]