by Marian Wiseman | May 30, 2023 | Relationships
Greetings after quite some time, my fellow Choose Courage Foundation supporters! I am writing after something of a hiatus; I took a good amount of time recently and made some big changes in my life, and all of it has been possible because of the intensive healing work...
by Rhonda | Jun 28, 2022 | Relationships
In a box of old photographs, I found images of my grandmother holding me in front of a birthday cake. Our birthdays were only a day apart and we shared my first few cakes. I barely knew her. She would die from cancer before those cakes needed more candles than I had...
by Marian Wiseman | May 30, 2022 | Lost Voices
My following blogs will touch on the lost voices of domestic violence, including men, POC, LGBTQ survivors, and children. I will start with children as I write what I know with the greatest surety. I reflected on this topic, and I realized that white women are often...
by Marian Wiseman | Feb 17, 2022 | Relationships, Survivor Celebrations, Survivor Interviews
Happy New Year, fellow Butterfly Ninjas, survivors, and The Choose Courage Foundation supporters! I hope you are stepping into 2022 with a renewed sense of hope and optimism; I know I am. I wanted to share my narrative of my Choose Courage Photo Shoot on April...
by Marian Wiseman | Nov 15, 2021 | Relationships
Greetings, fellow Butterfly Ninjas, fellow survivors, and all of the wonderful supporters of The Choose Courage Foundation; welcome to the Holiday Season! October was Domestic Violence Awareness month. I intended to write this during that month but found myself very...