Courage Conversations

TITLE: Moving Forward from Childhood Trauma   GUEST: Tasha Hunter   DETAILS: In this episode, we talk to Licensed Clinical Social Worker Tasha Hunter about how child trauma symptoms often masquerade as disruptive behavior in children, the signs we should be on the lookout for, and powerful tools for healing as adult survivors of trauma.  This episode is perfect for adults survivors...

TITLE: Racism Is Abuse   GUEST: Alexis Douglas   DETAILS: In this week's Courage Conversation episode, we welcome Alexis Douglas back to the show to talk about race, reparations, financial abuse and more! We also begin with our first Q+A and address a hot topic in the Courage 365 community, allegations of abuse against a civil rights leader.  This show streams on June 17th at 7 pm E...

TITLE: The Power of Rituals For Survivors  GUEST: Amy F. Davis Abdallah   DETAILS: In this episode, we talk Amy Davis Abdallah about her research on rituals and rites of passages and how these can be transformational tools to help survivors.  There comes a day for many survivors where they would like to draw a line in the sand between the past and the future they are stepping into....

TITLE: When Anxiety Hits   GUEST: Katy Bandy a.k.a. The Mindful Therapist   DETAILS: In this episode, we talk to Katy Bandy and Intensively Certified Dialectical Behavioral Therapist a.k.a. the Mindful Therapist about what to do when anxiety hits.  Learn practical tips for reducing anxiety and how to tell the difference between "normal" anxiety levels that every human faces and anxi...

TITLE: Beyond Good Touch/Bad Touch   GUEST: Advocate, Liria Forsythe   DETAILS: In this episode, Courage 365 Administrative Director, survivor advocate, and mother of six, Liria Forsythe, talks about using focused conversation to dialogue with children of all ages about boundaries, safety, and even abuse. She answers big questions like "how do I educate my kids about abuse without making...

Title: When Saying "MeToo" Isn't Helpful   GUEST: Therapist, Jenna Teague   DETAILS: In this episode, we address abuse survivor advocates as we talk about responsibly holding space for survivors when they make an abuse disclosure.  Jenna talks about common pitfalls that advocates, friends, and family often make when trying to hold space for survivors. Pitfalls like unintentionally m...

TITLE: Josh Duggar Goes To Jail   GUEST: Julie Anne Smith from Spiritual Sounding Board   DETAILS: In this episode of Courage Conversations, we talk about the famed Josh Duggar being arrested by Homeland Security and placed in jail for HS's allegations of Josh having obtained child sexual abuse imagery (child pornography).  Julie Anne Smith @spiritualsoundingboard has been following...

GUEST: C365 Board Member and Safety Advisor, Maureen Garcia   DETAILS: In this episode of Courage Conversations, we talk about the credible allegations of abuse by the late Christian Apologist Ravi Zacharias and why we believe his family and followers need to stop defending his behavior. Maureen shares from her personal experience of previously being married to a predator and from her years o...

The Courage Conversations show – Season 2 EP:1   www. Courage365.org  https://www.facebook.com/groups/Courage365.org  https://www.instagram.com/courage365/   TITLE: Racial Resilience and Remembering   GUEST: Ask Douglas  Find Alexis on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube  https://www.facebook.com/askalexis111  https://www.instagram.com/askalexis111/  https:...

This Week's Topic: Child Marriage in the US, Donna's Story   This Week's Guests are: Donna Pollard and Casey Carter Swegman   Tune in as Donna shares her story of surviving child marriage (which is legal in most states within the USA). Listen as she tells what it was like getting married at just 16 and about the policies and laws that allowed it to happen.  Donna has partnered up wi...

This Week's Topic: "Cuties" & Sexualization of Children  This Week’s Guest is: Maureen Farrell Garcia   Maureen Farrell Garcia is a captivating speaker and workshop facilitator who combines research with personal experience to empower her audience. With empathy and wit, Maureen connects with her audience offering her knowledge of abuse dynamics and insights for creating safe spaces a...

This Week's Topic: Abuse Survivors in Court, What to Expect   This Week’s Guest is: Katie Trout   Katie Trout was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, but now lives in the Raleigh area. She was sexually abused by an employee of a prominent megachurch from ages 15-19. She now works to support other survivors in their journey to heal and be heard.  Passionate about seeing sex...

This Week's Topic: Abuse and Disillusionment With Evangelicalism   This Week’s Guest is: Asha Dahya  Asha Dahya is a TEDx Speaker, author and producer. Asha released her first book 'Today's Wonder Women: Everyday Superheroes Who Are Changing The World' in March 2020, featuring inspiring, heroic stories of 50 women and girls from around the world. Asha is passionate about reproductive jus...

This Week's Topic: How To Tell Your Partner About Past Abuse  This Week’s Guest is: Ask Alexis   Alexis Douglas specializes in empowering couples and individuals to become and embody their authentic selves. She is an Educator, Transformation Catalyst, Couples Communication Coach, and conversation facilitator. She empowers personal transformation through teaching compassionate listening s...

Mary Hyatt is a life and business mindset coach who specializes in helping high achieving female entrepreneurs move from living a life of burnout to a life where they are connected to their emotions, their body, and their spirit.  She helps bring her 1 on 1 and group coaching clients back to their enoughness, wholeness, and femininity.  Mary is the host of the Living Fully Alive podcast...

This Week's Topic: Faith Leaders + Double Standards (special focus on Jerry Falwell Jr recent inappropriate pictures).   This Week's Guest: Amy Smith of Watchkeep   Amy Smith is an abuse survivor advocate and blogger since 2010 exposing abuse in churches. She has personal experience of exposing abuse covered up in my former Baptist megachurch in Dallas. Amy holds degrees in both psycholo...

This Week's Topic: How Conspiracy Theories Hurt Trafficking Survivors   This Week’s Guest is: BilliJoy Carson of Kick at Darkness   BilliJoy is a survivor of child sex trafficking and rape as an adult. She founded and is president of Kick at Darkness, a nonprofit to help survivors in their healing journey and bring training to the community.  BilliJoy is currently recovering from a...

This Week's Topic: History Of the Survivor Movement   This Week’s Guest is: Tim Lennon   Tim Lennon is the President of the Board of Directors of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP). He is a survivor of rape and sexual abuse when he was twelve. Memories of that abuse remained buried for decades.  In 2010 Tim became a volunteer local SNAP leader in the San Francis...

This Week's Topic: Predator "Apologies"   This Week’s Guest is: Maureen Farrell-Garcia   Maureen Farrell Garcia is a captivating speaker and workshop facilitator who combines research with personal experience to empower her audience. With empathy and wit, Maureen connects with her audience offering her knowledge of abuse dynamics and insights for creating safe spaces and healing from abu...

This Week's Topic: How To Be A Survivor Ally   This Week’s Guest is: Nikole Lim   Nikole Lim is a speaker, educator, and consultant on leveraging dignity through the restorative art of storytelling. Nikole shifts paradigms on how stories are told by platforming voices of the oppressed—sharing stories of beauty arising out of seemingly broken situations. Her heart beats for young women wh...

This Week's Topic: Art As Resistance   This Week’s Guest is: David Hayward a.k.a NakedPastor   David has a Masters in Theological Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, a Diploma in Religious Studies and Ministry from McGill University in Montreal, and a Diploma in University Teaching from the University of New Brunswick. He served the church as a pastor for 30 years and left...

This Week's Topic: How EMDR Therapy Could Change Your Life   This Week’s Guest is: Mike Phillips   Mike Phillips is a trauma therapist, specializing in EMDR and Internal Family Systems. He pastored for 35 years concurrent to being a therapist. He has worked with over 100 churches to help with their victims of pastoral or leadership abuse.  VISIT: www.mikeinsac.com

This Week's Topic: Advocate Burnout Syndrome   This Week’s Guest is: Naima Dido from Threads For Well-Being   Naima Dido was born in Nairobi, Kenya, where her parents met just after her father arrived from Ethiopia as an Oromo Political Refugee. The eldest of 5 siblings, she and her family moved to the U.S. in 1988 through the Federal Refugee Resettlement Program. She describes herself a...

This Week's Topic: Uncovering Abuser's Deception Tactics   This Week’s Guest Is: Jimmy Hinton   Jimmy Hinton, MDiv grew up in Shanksville, PA, just one mile from where United 93 crashed on September 11, 2001.In 2011, Jimmy’s sister confided in him that she had been sexually abused when she was a young child by their father, a former minister of 27 years. Jimmy reported his father to auth...

This Week's Topic: The Transformative Power of Connection   This Week’s Guest is: Cristy Horsley   Cristy Horsley served as a volunteer for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate for children) for a year and a half and joined the CASA of Central Virginia staff in June 2014. For Cristy, CASA has been an expression of an ongoing interest in social justice and advocacy and has been the plac...