Year: 2025
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Healing Out Loud: Why Telling Our Stories Matters
“Healing out loud because I almost died in silence.” Breaking the Silence: The Power of Sharing Our Stories For years, I believed my story was something to be hidden—too heavy, too messy, too much for the world to handle. I convinced myself that silence was safer. That if I didn’t speak about my experiences, they…
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Post-Incarceration Syndrome and the Forgotten Survivors of the Troubled Teen Industry
The troubled teen industry (TTI) is a billion-dollar network of behavior modification programs, including wilderness therapy camps, therapeutic boarding schools, boot camps, and residential treatment centers. Marketed to desperate parents as a last resort for their struggling children, these programs promise transformation and healing. But as a survivor of the TTI myself, I can tell…
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Cinema, Sentiment, and Storytelling: The Films That Speak to My Soul
The Struggle of Choosing Just One Favorite Movie Whenever someone asks me, “What’s your favorite movie?” I freeze. Not because I don’t have one, but because I have too many. How do you choose between the movies that shaped you, the ones that comfort you, and the ones that completely wreck you in the best…
Jessica Woodville | Memoir & Musings 