This is author Naomi Hunter’s truth. A survivor of child sexual abuse and now an acclaimed children’s book author details her journey as a child born into chaos and abuse, to becoming an empowered author and child advocate.

Her autobiography One Little Life is written as a fictional narrative and while the recollection of her memories is often confronting, Naomi’s story leaves readers with a sense of troubling beauty, and the power to stand for survivors and with survivors.

“I’m no longer apologetic for my story and I know I didn’t cause or deserve a single act of sexual, physical or emotional abuse, nor does any survivor. Sexual abuse is not an incurable illness. No assault is too painful to be witnessed or heard, and no story is too shame-filled or soul crushing that we can’t find ways to confront them and heal.”

How we tell and hear stories will be how we change and heal.