“Justice can just feel like being believed. Believed and heard, and the secret not being there anymore.”
It takes enormous courage to share a story of personal trauma. For some though, it’s an important part of the journey to healing and justice.
The impact of the abuse Laura experienced as a child is still something she confronts regularly in her adult life.
“Justice, for me, looks more and more like that shame being stripped away and returned to the people it belongs to, and less about locking people up and putting them in jail.”