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"You can't change the past but, with understanding, you can sometimes draw the poison out of it." ~ Carlo Gebler

Mandy Smith was born and raised in Montana, aka "Big Sky Country." It took five decades for her to find the courage to step out from what had been hiding in plain sight--familial sex abuse and its ensuing aftermath. She resides in Portland, Oregon and is an advocate for child abuse prevention and adult survivors of childhood sex abuse. "Secrets in Big Sky Country" is her first book.
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"Bad" Girls Typically Have a History ofAbuse

Secrets in Big Sky Country A Memoir by Mandy Smith Here’s why we must stop viewing abused girls as “bad” girls.

A recent Facebook post from a man berating his girlfriends’ 14 year-old daughter–calling her “ungrateful, entitled, belligerent, defiant, rebellious, etc.–implored an immediate response from me; however, I held back. My claws were out too far, my heart pounded too violently, and the cuss words I’d splattered across the screen of my co Read more of this blog post »
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Published on January 24, 2016 15:41 Tags: childhood-trauma, secret-keeping, victim-blaming

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