From the Podcast: Amy Peterson: Used and Abused as a Child and Recovering as an Adult
Amy Peterson is Ashley Loeb Blassingame’s guest on Episode 11 of The Courage To Change: A Recovery Podcast. Sexually abused and trafficked from a young age, Amy has utilized ongoing therapy to start healing from this long-term abuse, along with the substance abuse she used…
From the Podcast: Flor Edwards: Writing Her Way Out of Trauma
Flor Edwards is Ashley Loeb Blassingame’s guest on Episode 13 of The Courage To Change: A Recovery Podcast. Flor is the author of the acclaimed Apocalypse Child: A Life In End Times, her memoir Publisher’s Weekly calls “a wrenching testimony about a complicated childhood reclaimed.”…
From the Podcast: Kacie Margis: Helping Other Survivors
In Episode 9 of The Courage To Change: A Recovery Podcast, host Ashley Loeb Blassingame talks with Kacie who has survived child molestation, bullying, rape and rape attempts, and the Route 91 mass shooting in Las Vegas. As Ashley says “despite these hardships, Kacie holds…
From the Podcast: Christopher Poulos: Setting Legal Policy While Living in Recovery
Christopher Poulos joined host Ashley Loeb Blassingame for Episode 12 of The Courage To Change: A Recovery Podcast to share his incredible story of recovery. Christopher is an attorney and the Executive Director of The Washington Statewide Reentry Council, where he promotes equal access to…