Shareby Sallie Culbreth, M.S. Founder We’ve all been depressed. We’ve all grieved. We’ve all gotten stuck. That’s a common human experience. But there’s a point when you must recognize that life goes on and something’s got to change. There is nothing harder than putting one foot in front of the other when you find yourself [...]
Share 10 years of empowering people to reclaim themselves after a broken childhood! Featuring a dinner of designer cupcakes (eaten first) followed by gourmet hot dogs & lemonade! and the talents of The Itinerant Locals, Chuck Dodson lip synching with puppets, Attorney Brent Miller’s artistic rendition of “101 Fast Food Jokes” book, The Courage Tree [...]
Shareby Sallie Culbreth Amma’s Salisbury Steak was what Anthony craved each lonely Sunday afternoon. The college cafeteria’s lame attempt at Sunday dinner accomplished nothing more that to remind him that he was hundreds of miles away from his grandmother’s ample arms. Massachusetts was not the place for a southern boy raised by a woman of [...]
ShareBy Sallie Culbreth, M.S. Founder This will be the first Mother’s Day since my Mom died. She crossed over in November, 2011. I’ve thought a lot about her since her death, trying to wrap it all up with a nice bow to summarize her life, but no one can be summarized neatly, especially my mom. [...]
ShareBy Sallie Culbreth, M.S. Founder I recently stayed with a friend during a cross-country journey. Many conversations took place while I was with her, including the story of her father’s military service in Vietnam. In going through slides he’d taken of people and the war-torn countryside, she found one particular slide that had the following [...]
ShareBy Sallie Culbreth, M.S. Founder When I was a kid, I worried a lot about suffering and felt it was somehow my responsibility to find solutions that would end it. I worried about world hunger, mostly. I’ll never forget that great epiphany I had when I was about eight that the simple solution to starvation [...]
ShareBy Sallie Culbreth, M.S. Founder “Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.” -Sir Winston Churchill War has been declared on everything. War on drugs. War on pollution. War on Christmas. War on this. [...]
ShareBy Sallie Culbreth, M.S. Founder, Committed to Freedom “It takes one to know one.” That little saying comes with a catch for most abuse survivors: TRUST. Let me dissect this for you a bit. Like many abuse survivors, you probably struggle with doubts about your own judgments, your own motives, and not completely trusting yourself. [...]
Shareby Sallie Culbreth, M.S. – Founder “Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and my body with grief. My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction and my bones grow weak. Because of [...]
ShareBy Sallie Culbreth, M.S. Founder, Committed to Freedom As Christians around the world prepare to observe Holy Week – that passage of time between Christ’s celebrated entry into Jerusalem to his betrayal and assassination to his resurrection – I see a mirror image of the emotional and spiritual struggles faced by abuse survivors. I see [...]
Enter your email address below to receive updates each time we publish new articles and updated events.
