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Welcome to my blog!

My name is Shauna Driscoll and I am a blogger and soon to be author of my very first book.

I started blogging to share my personal story with domestic violence in the hopes of raising awareness.

With my blogs I hope to empower, encourage, educate, inspire and uplift my readers through my own personal experience.

Please feel free to reach out! Everything we go through is not just to keep to ourselves. What we have gone through gives us the opportunity to help others who are going now through.

We all come from so many different paths and many walks of life. This is a judgement free zone, ALL are welcome!

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New beginning: The wedding transformed the monarchy May 20, 2018
The masses roared, as they always do on such occasions, and under a cloudless English sky in the historic town of Windsor, there was a new beginning.
Watch: 'SNL' parodies the royal wedding reception May 20, 2018
"Saturday Night Live" spoofs an inside look at what could have been the reception following the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Heck of a wedding: Highlights from Harry and Meghan's big day May 19, 2018
What a wedding!
Meet: Meghan's adorable bridal party May 20, 2018
Meghan Markle entered St. George's Chapel for her wedding to Prince Harry on Saturday trailed by four page boys and six bridesmaids, their heads wreathed in flower crowns.

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Miss North Carolina USA: Advocating for Change
Caelynn Miller-Keyes Caelynn Miller-Keyes is Miss North Carolina USA 2018. She received a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from Virginia Commonwealth University and currently works as a mentor to young girls at Windy Gap, a Young Life camp in Weaverville. As Miss North Carolina USA she is committed to improving policies for sexual assault survivors […]
Healing as a Family After Child Sexual Abuse
Joyful Heart Foundation Nancy Nesbitt is the parent representative on the Connecticut Governor’s Task Force on Justice for Abused Children. She applies her perspective and experiences as a mother of children who were sexually abused at a young age to her work. The task force serves to coordinate agencies in the investigation, intervention, and prosecution […]
The Intersections of Disability and Violence
Joyful Heart Foundation NPR called it the “assault epidemic no one talks about.” Each year, people with disabilities—physical, mental, intellectual, and others—face disproportionate rates of sexual and domestic violence. And too often, they do not receive the support they need.EducationOur IssuesSexual AssaultDomestic ViolenceChild Abuse and Neglect
Introducing Joyful Heart en Español
Joyful Heart Foundation Joyful Heart’s website now offers Spanish-language resources to make our educational materials about sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse accessible to those who speak Spanish, including the more than 40 million Spanish speakers in the United States.EducationOur IssuesSexual AssaultDomestic ViolenceChild Abuse and Neglect
Seven Tips To Help Men Speak Out in Support of #MeToo
Michael Kasdan, Director of Special Projects, The Good Men Project and Lisa B. Winjum, Vice President of External Affairs, Joyful Heart Foundation At the Golden Globe Awards last month, the #MeToo movement and TIME’S UP initiative took center stage. In a visually stunning show of solidarity, attendees—both women and men —wore black eveningwear and “Time’s […]

JHF Domestic Violence

The Intersections of Disability and Violence
NPR called it the “assault epidemic no one talks about.” Each year, people with disabilities—physical, mental, intellectual, and others—face disproportionate rates of sexual and domestic violence. And too often, they do not receive the support they need.As many as 1 in 2 disabled women have experienced domestic violence—twice the rate of non-disabled women. People with […]
Introducing Joyful Heart en Español
Joyful Heart’s website now offers Spanish-language resources to make our educational materials about sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse accessible to those who speak Spanish, including the more than 40 million Spanish speakers in the United States.One in three Hispanic women has experienced physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime, and one […]
Seven Tips To Help Men Speak Out in Support of #MeToo
At the Golden Globe Awards last month, the #MeToo movement and TIME’S UP initiative took center stage. In a visually stunning show of solidarity, attendees—both women and men —wore black eveningwear and “Time’s Up” pins. But while nearly every woman who accepted an award spoke out in support of survivors in all industries, expressed their […]
6 Tips for Parents Talking About Dating Abuse
Parents who suspect their child is in an unhealthy relationship may not know how to help. Parents can begin discussing healthy relationships and signs of dating abuse with their children before they even begin dating. Here are six tips on how parents can navigate having conversations about dating violence with their children.1. Educate yourself.Learn warning […]
One Love Foundation Partnership Highlights Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
This Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, Joyful Heart Foundation and One Love Foundation are partnering to share information about healthy and unhealthy relationships. We will provide tips to help adults talk to young people about relationship violence, resources for you or a friend who may be in an abusive relationship, tools to support a survivor, […]

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Healing as a Family After Child Sexual Abuse
Nancy Nesbitt is the parent representative on the Connecticut Governor’s Task Force on Justice for Abused Children. She applies her perspective and experiences as a mother of children who were sexually abused at a young age to her work. The task force serves to coordinate agencies in the investigation, intervention, and prosecution of child sexual […]
The Intersections of Disability and Violence
NPR called it the “assault epidemic no one talks about.” Each year, people with disabilities—physical, mental, intellectual, and others—face disproportionate rates of sexual and domestic violence. And too often, they do not receive the support they need.As many as 1 in 2 disabled women have experienced domestic violence—twice the rate of non-disabled women. People with […]
Introducing Joyful Heart en Español
Joyful Heart’s website now offers Spanish-language resources to make our educational materials about sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse accessible to those who speak Spanish, including the more than 40 million Spanish speakers in the United States.One in three Hispanic women has experienced physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime, and one […]
6 Tips for Parents Talking About Dating Abuse
Parents who suspect their child is in an unhealthy relationship may not know how to help. Parents can begin discussing healthy relationships and signs of dating abuse with their children before they even begin dating. Here are six tips on how parents can navigate having conversations about dating violence with their children.1. Educate yourself.Learn warning […]
2017 In Review: Thank You For Sharing Our Joyful Journey
Hope. Joy. Possibility. We were founded on these values and in 2017, they are at the heart of everything we do.The volume on the conversation about sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse is up and getting louder every day as all eyes, ears, and hearts are turned toward these issues. The collective voices of […]

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Keeping Our Healing Practices Survivor-centered
Healing from trauma looks different for every survivor. At Joyful Heart, our healing programs are based on honoring each survivor’s journey.We recently expanded the core of this work as participants in Blue Shield Foundation of California’s Learning Circle Project, a collaborative learning experience with seven other leading organizations serving domestic violence survivors. The learning circle’s […]
TALK LA: Supporting Survivors' Healing though our Signature Retreat Program
Thursday, 10 March 2016TALK EventsLos Angeles, CA On Thursday, March 10th, Joyful Heart board members Jenny Belushi and Heather Mnuchin hosted a TALK event in Los Angeles at the Belushi home. Over 30 guests gathered with our Los Angeles Committee for a presentation and conversation centered on Joyful Heart's survivor retreat research project with Georgetown […]
April: A Month of Healing, Education and Advocacy
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and National Child Abuse Prevention Month. For many of us, it will be marked by awareness-raising efforts, days of remembrance and calls to action. It will be a month, though, unchanged by the staggering facts:Every two minutes in the United States, someone is sexually assaulted.One in five women and […]
LA2050: We need your vote
Big news. This year, We are competing in this year's LA2050 Challenge to win $100,000 to support our holistic healing programs that help survivors heal from sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse.With your support, we will evaluate and document our retreat model and create a replication plan for agencies in Los Angeles and beyond […]

JHF Advocacy

Focus on untested rape kits in California after East Area Rapist suspect arrest
Sacramento BeeAngela Hart Pressure is building for California lawmakers to end the backlog of untested rape kits, following the arrest this week of the suspected East Area Rapist.Law enforcement officials said a major break leading to the arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo was made possible, in large part, by DNA evidence tied to old crimes […]
I AM EVIDENCE examines problem of untested rape kits
April 16, 2018CNNBrian Lowry After years starring in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Mariska Hargitay is now highlighting the subject matter in a new way by producing I AM EVIDENCE, a sobering and timely look at the way rape kits have been left to languish, a policy decision with the ghastly effect of enabling […]
Mariska Hargitay’s new documentary shines light on epidemic of untested rape kits
April 13, 2018NBC Nightly NewsNBC Nightly News The HBO documentary ‘I am Evidence,’ produced by actress Mariska Hargitay, follows women who reported sexual assaults and provided DNA evidence but discovered it was never tested. Read the original versionTags: Rape Kitsrape kit backloguntested rape kitsEnd the Backlogsexual assaultMariska HargitayI Am Evidence
The rape kit backlog shows exactly how we regard women in this country
April 13, 2018HuffPostAlanna Vagianos There are estimated to be hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits currently sitting in police storage across the country. So, how did we get here?That’s the question actress and activist Mariska Hargitay answers in her new HBO documentary “I Am Evidence,” set to air April 16. The film, co-produced by […]
A shocking number of rape kits are untested—Mariska Hargitay wants to change that
March 30, 2018PeopleKate Coyne Mariska Hargitay has been investigating crimes as Olivia Benson on Law & Order for almost two decades. And now she’s fighting for real-life justice to end rape-kit backlog, which is the subject of her new HBO documentary, I Am Evidence. Read the original versionTags: Mariska HargitayRape Kitsuntested rape kitssexual assaultRapeEnd the Backlog

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Am i being gaslightted
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Confused and not sure what to do..
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I think my friend is being abused. Advice please? :(
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My husband mentally and physically abused me.Please HEL
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41 Yr Old Man Victim of Domestic Abuse and Assault by Female
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Child Abuse Forum – News

Are my parents abusing me?
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Dealing with Trauma from Neglect
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*TW* very lost ( very triggering )
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What could have happened to her ***tw***
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Am I making to much out of this
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