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The healing quality of “playfulness” lies, not in the particular activity you do, but in what you bring to whatever activity you do, whether it’s work, leisure or restoring a healthy life.

The best part is that means healing begins.

What can the Wizard of Oz tell you about how to manage your recovery? A lot!

Trust and safety are powerful gifts to give a man on a healing journey. In creating a safe space, we give them support and hope.

Countless organizations and law enforcement agencies have made great strides to address human trafficking, but we still have more to do.

As we close out on 2013, I am enormously proud of the organization’s many accomplishments over the past 12 months and I look forward to the next!

"I don’t want to just survive…I want to live."

I’m one of those people whose desk has countless stacks of things I want to get to tomorrow, next week….or someday. There are also all the little objects that I need to put away or file. I guess it represents just how messy life can be and that we always have undone things in life.As I began to clear away the rubble, it got me thinking about life, healing and purpose.

Occasionally a survivor of sexual assault says, "It happened only one time," as if that made the offense and agony less important. To that, I answer, "It's not whether molestation happened one time or fifty times, you were still molested."

Two weeks ago, eight men whose portraits and biographies appear on the Bristlecone website lent their portraits and statements to the gallery of survivors on the web site of the NO MORE campaign. These men, and their brothers at Bristlecone, have chosen to sit in front of a camera and to look directly into the camera’s lens.