Co-Founder of SOS at Zac's Ridge
Growing up “Cleaver” was a wonderful way to live life. Everyone deserves to know the unconditional love I experienced through my family legacy. The down side to it, I had no practical tools to face the real world and deal with crises and struggles. I believed everyone was good and trustworthy and created by God and peace was always the answer.
As a very young teenager I chose to marry in order to get the freedom I believed to be ready for. 13 years and 3 husbands later, I had survived almost every possible form of physical, emotional and spiritual torture a human could endure. At one point, I sank into total hopelessness seeing death as my only option. Through the power of prayer I was brought back into the Light of Truth and turned back toward the path I was born to walk.
The man created to walk through this world by my side was sent from Chicago. He gave me everything I needed to start healing my broken spirit. Such a sweet, soft place to fall and beautiful Father to my children. After 7 flawless years of marriage, it all began to unravel.
We started our own business and hubby left to travel internationally. Seeing him only 3-5 days a month left me alone and broken again wondering what was so wrong with me he wouldn’t want to be home. After close to 5 years of separation, we were introduced to experiential training. We were at a place of “life or death” with our relationship and self-worth.
My best friend invited us to attend. Hubby started and then me. Taking an honest and real look at ourselves began to set us free. Our relationship with ourselves and one another changed drastically. Each found our Truth and Purpose. Together, there is nothing we can not accomplish. We celebrate 18 years of loving one another this November and he is my best friend in the whole, wide world!
SOS is a place for everyone to take a personal journey into the core of who you are. It is the most challenging experience to take a magnifying glass and look at everything that has made you who you are and brought you to the point you are at today. From the moment we are born things are written on our hearts. Not just the first moment, or a few moments but EVERY moment of our lives. Those committed to care for us and those allowed in our world model their family legacies that become our own. The innocent grow up and model their legacies to their innocent ones and on and on and on.
My professional career encompasses surgical tech, EMT, Police Officer, Victim’s Advocate, Corporate President and CEO. I founded SOS in January, 2003, to raise awareness on the crisis of the most extreme broken family legacies. 1 in 3 American women experience relationship violence and only half the incidents are actually reported.
Experiential training has always been a key in the treatment plan for our long-term clients. The most natural thing was to partner with Gretna, Pennie and Dennis and bring this training to EVERYONE who wishes to live an authentic life, not the one built by the people around them. Prevention and awareness is the key and we’re bringing the opportunity to everyone who wants to take a chance on themselves and give the gift of “Truth” to their own heart and all the people who love them. We are worthy of peace, joy and unconditional love. All it takes is a willing spirit to reveal it.
To learn more about Veda's passion for putting an end to Domestic Violence and helping victims and families escape abuse, click here to read victim stories and view statistics. |
