Katie and Brigette take to opportunity to speak about mental health and Abuse, how the two correlate, how we can teach our children and how to act if they become victims of abuse. 

Katie Hastings is a pediatric nurse, author of children’s book Your Safe Body, mother, wife, child abuse survivor and creator of SHOUT™️. SHOUT is a body safety acronym taught in her book to help parents educate and prevent sexual abuse in children. She lives in Hawaii on the island of Oahu with her husband and four sons. She also is founder and owner of company SHOUt which is dedicated to abuse prevention. She loves getting outside to enjoy the island, watching her boys participate in sporting activities, and taking it easy too with a good book, travel, or visiting with family and friends.

Quotes from the Episode:

" 1 in 5 before the age of 18 are sexually abused "- Katie

S.H.O.U.T:

Stop

Help

Out

Unsafe

Tell

The ways the child's brain will think, a lot of victims are with someone they know so it comes with shame, confusion, embarrassment, betrayal and they are afraid they will get in trouble, so they don't know what to do.- Katie

"I got to tell, I can't get help if I don't tell"- Katie

"We have to have tools to talk about hard things" - Brigette

there are so many victims out there- it shouldn't be taboo to talk about, we need to talk about it.- Brigette

You can only power through, not tell, not address, for so long and thats what we are seeing is the effect of mental health on abuse survivors- Katie

"I want SHOUT to become a household name for body safety"- Katie

"I wrote the book based on conversations I had with them (her kids)"- Katie

"Kids need to know all the anatomical names of private parts so that there is no question no questions so that if there was someone of abuse coming to you and its so important to hold abusers accountable.- Katie

It's a really easy tool: "Remember S.H.O.U.T"-- Katie

the FBI said there are 500,000 active online pedophiles a day now.- Katie

Teach them, we can't ever get things back that we send out- Katie

When a child is coming to you- the statistic is that 80-90% of people physical, sexual abuse of a child, its someone the child knows, which means its someone you know, so it can be really hard to want to believe that. When a child is coming to you its usually just the tip of the iceberg for what has taken place and it takes a lot of courage.

Stay calm, Stay focused on the child, reestablish safety-- Katie

Ask yourself "what do I have to do to create safety again in my home?"- Brigette

To Connect with Katie:

Instagram link @katiethemomthenurse 

Book: https://store.bookbaby.com/book/your-safe-body

To Connect with Brigette:

Instagram: Www.instagram.com/brigette.heller

Website: www.thestrongandcapable.com