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Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of the passing of my dear friend and one of 1in6's closest allies, Heidi Sommer.

I know that change is possible. I’ve seen it in myself and in others.

By reclaiming my story, I had the power to select my narrative. No longer was I allowing others to define me, instead I was defining myself.

I used drugs for all 14,600 days of my painful secret keeping.

If the audience for Super Bowl XLIX is anything like 2014, among those watching the "big game" could be as many as nine and a half million men who had unwanted or abusive sexual experiences in childhood.

Some men who are of childhood sexual abuse focus their anger in three different ways: toward the person who abused them, themselves and the adults who didn't protect them.

An old emotional pain living inside you—an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose—leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain called the painbody.

Our careful nurturance of key partnerships has helped make it possible to inspire increased services to support men who had unwanted or abusive sexual experiences in childhood to live healthier, happier lives.

This year, please join us in resolving to help the millions of men around the world who had unwanted or abusive sexual experiences in childhood to live healthier, happier lives.

Many of us adults who have experienced childhood sexual abuse and other traumas find ourselves with confused feelings as we’re confronted with holiday promises of joy, connection and good will, which may run contrary to our memories of our own childhoods.