Margit Detweiler, creator of the lifestyle website TueNight.com, started googling everything possible when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. While she found many support groups and networks, she decided to open up about her illness through social media channels and her website. In fact, social media has proven to be a way to relieve stress in cancer patients. A 2015 study from UCLA discovered that anxiety in breast cancer patients went down when they discussed their expe

By: E. Diane Champe, Founder/President of the E Diane Champe Institute Managing Assistant: Tram Pham Child abuse (physical, mental, emotional, and/or sexual) and neglect encompasses lifelong consequences for men and women (survivors). Survivors don’t realize until much later in life that the methods they developed and used to cope as children were carried forward into their adult lives. When children are abused, they begin to question themselves and their world because it des

By: Janice Tjeng Edited by: Sharon E. Chin Sara Kruzan, now 37 years old, was a survivor of sex trafficking. She was trafficked in California at the age of 13 years until she was 16. At 16, she shot her pimp, George Gilbert Howard to death. Initially, after the incident, she was sentenced to imprisonment without parole. However, after receiving widespread media attention from various judicial reform groups, Kruzan was paroled on October 31, 2013 after serving 19 years. ADVE