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Color It Blue 2025

Color It Blue 2025

by Crystal Emerick | Feb 11, 2025 | Uncategorized

Join the Color It Blue Movement Everyone is impacted by sexual violence. In April for Sexual...
2024 Virtual Walk/Run presented by Uwharrie Bank

2024 Virtual Walk/Run presented by Uwharrie Bank

by Crystal Emerick | Feb 24, 2024 | Uncategorized

Brave Step Virtual Walk/Run presented by Uwharrie Bank April 1-8, 2024 | Walk or Run Anywhere Be a...
Brave Step Challenges the Community to “Color It Blue”

Brave Step Challenges the Community to “Color It Blue”

by Crystal Emerick | Mar 6, 2023 | Brave Step Resources, Uncategorized

BRAVE STEP CHALLENGES THE COMMUNITY TO “COLOR IT BLUE” Awareness and Advocacy Campaign...
My Body Safety Rules

My Body Safety Rules

by Crystal Emerick | May 13, 2021 | Changemaker, Family & Friends, Loved Ones, Parents & Caregivers

My Body Safety Rules Jayneen Sanders has created an informative, child-friendly poster to empower...

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One Brave Thing ... Speak the truth, gently. Ide One Brave Thing ... Speak the truth, gently. 

Identify a difficult reality, acknowledge it and frame it with kindness, for yourself or others. 

Compassion makes truth approachable.

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💙 Voices of Change: Ly Ly volunteers with surv 💙 Voices of Change: Ly

Ly volunteers with survivors because she believes being present is both a responsibility and an honor.

“I want to be a beacon of hope for other survivors,” she shares. “I want to be able to share my story and o remind them there is life beyond trauma and that life can be beautiful, free, and worth living. We are more than what someone did to us.”

Through her advocacy and presence, Ly helps create spaces where survivors feel seen, believed and valued, not defined by what happened to them, but by who they are becoming.

Her voice is a reminder that hope grows when it’s shared.
And that healing doesn’t erase the past. It expands what’s possible.

Thank you, Ly, for showing up with courage and compassion. 💙

#VoicesOfChange #SurvivorAdvocate #HopeInHealing #YouAreMoreThanYourTrauma #BraveStep
One Brave Thing: Notice. Respond. Share Support. One Brave Thing: Notice. Respond. Share Support.

Trauma doesn’t always look like what we expect. Most survivors learn or are often taught to hide pain or push through it.

Sometimes the bravest thing isn’t knowing the perfect words.
It’s opening the door to support.

💙 Share this post with someone who may benefit.

#OneBraveThing #TraumaInformed #MenSurvivors #EducationIsPrevention #HealingInCommunity
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