Healing Trauma in the Congo: A chronicle of how women survivors of sexual violence are rebuilding their lives.

Victoria Bentley and I were writing partners when she lived in Lake County. She moved to Santa Barbara, California, and then began a new life of healing trauma in the Congo. Dr. Victoria Bentley has been a psychologist and life coach for over 30 years. She is now focused on healing trauma, currently working to…

Empower Congo Women

My friend Victoria Bentley is back in Bukavu, Congo (DRC) and has been blogging up a storm. Empower Congo Women is rebuilding the fabric of society in Eastern Congo from the ground up by empowering community-based agencies and disadvantaged women and children through microfinance, education and charitable donations. Empower Congo Women is a 501(c)3 non-profit…