by Our Stories Untold | Dec 1, 2019 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Reverend Teresa K. Pecinovsky Kintsugi pottery by Miyo Heki. Image shared with permission from the artist. [Updated on 1/5/2020: This version of Teresa Pecinovsky’s interview contains additional details about Dr. Love’s behavior in response to the...
by Our Stories Untold | Oct 8, 2018 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by M.G. My name is Megan Grove. It’s been over two years since I originally posted my story on Our Stories Untold as M.G. Two years this past April. The same month that I tried to take my own life at EMU ten years ago. And as these years roll by, bleeding one into the...
by Our Stories Untold | Apr 10, 2018 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Torah Bontrager Torah Bontrager grew up in an Amish community. As a child, she was sexually abused. The repercussions of the abuse threatened to take her life, but Torah has found ways to live and thrive through a combination of medication and activism. On a...
by Our Stories Untold | Jan 8, 2018 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Stories
by Chrissy Maruffi For years, it ate away at me inside. Disgusted in myself for not being more forceful, for not standing my ground. Ashamed, believing it was my fault because, well, I was part of it. I knew it was wrong for an adult to harm or exploit a child but...
by Our Stories Untold | Nov 29, 2017 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Katherine B. Wiens This is part three in a series of posts by Kathy Wiens, a sexual violence survivor, and her husband, Tim, who has been her strong ally. The series focuses on her experience of advocating for people vulnerable to abuse in her Mennonite church...
