We provide help and support for sexual assault survivors on the Hampton Roads Peninsula

Grooming is a predatory technique that perpetrators use to gain trust and establish access to victims and their support system. Therefore, knowledge about grooming is essential to prevent abuse. According to Chris McGhee (2026), victim selection includes “single-parent households, lacking parental oversight, state-custody or state supervision, socially isolated or marginalize children, intellectual, neurodevelopmental, and/or developmental disabilities, and history of sexual

Healing is often talked about as a destination, something to arrive at after trauma. But for author, advocate, and survivor Tammi, healing is something much more personal: an ongoing journey of resilience, self-compassion, and community. We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Tammi to discuss her memoir, The New Normal, and the experiences that inspired it. Throughout our conversation, one message remained at the heart of everything she shared: healing is possible,