Prevention and Healing Blog

The Trees of Hope blog equips you to prevent sexual abuse and human trafficking—and offers survivors guidance for healing. We’re also adding new content on identity, showing how a biblical foundation protects and restores.

TRUTH. TOOLS. TRANSFORMATION.

  • Parent and child learning about body safety, representing Trees of Hope’s prevention education mission.

    For Parents & Caregivers

    Learn how to talk to your children about abuse in a way that’s honest, age-appropriate, and rooted in faith. Our blog equips you to spot red flags, build safe boundaries, and parent from a place of wisdom—not fear.

    Prevention starts with confidence, not panic. Let us help you start the conversation.

  • Survivor finding strength and hope, reflecting the healing journey supported by Trees of Hope.

    For Survivors

    If you're walking the road of healing, you're not alone. Our blog speaks directly to the heart of those who have been wounded—offering hope, spiritual encouragement, and practical tools to help you reclaim your voice and rebuild your story.

    You are not too broken. You are not forgotten. Healing is possible.

Lysa McMillan Lysa McMillan

Hands Wide Open—The Battle We Must Wage

As the darkness of today’s culture confirms the reality of sexual abuse and child sex trafficking, we’re left with a choice: look away, or rise up. This battle won’t be won by law enforcement or policy alone—it demands all of us. Parents, teachers, pastors, neighbors—we are the village, and now is the time to live with eyes wide open and hands ready to act. On our watch, children are being harmed. But with courage, conviction, and the help of heaven, we can fight back and protect what matters most.

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Nicole Escobar Nicole Escobar

More Than Bystanders: Why the Mission Can’t Belong to One Voice

In a world where survivors sit silently in our pews and vulnerable children are all around us, we can’t afford to walk by. This blog is a call to move from passive awareness to active advocacy—because protecting and healing was never meant to fall on one voice alone. It takes all of us.

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Nicole Escobar Nicole Escobar

Waking Up to the Programming: Why Cultural Lies Are a Threat to Our Kids

At Trees of Hope, we believe the greatest threat to our children isn’t just predators—it’s the cultural programming that conditions them to accept exploitation as normal. This blog exposes the lies, highlights the dangers, and points to a better way: protecting the future and healing the past.

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Nicole Escobar Nicole Escobar

How Revenge Porn is Ruining Lives

If you have been a victim of revenge porn, sexual assault or sexual abuse, please know you are not alone. And help is available through Tree

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Child Pornography 101

While child sexual abuse and child pornography are not easy topics to discuss, being educated on the topics is crucial. Child pornography...

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Enough is Enough

Back in 2016, the organization Enough is Enough sent a pledge, titled the “Children’s Internet Safety Presidential Pledge,” to all of the...

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Together Making Kingdom Impact

I am proud to be part of such a robust Christian ministry with a 10-year history of serving the sexually abused and helping parents safeguar

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Is Porn a Problem?

Pornography – it’s an industry that generates $13 billion dollars every year in the United States, and according to a recent CovenantEyes...

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The Next Public Health Crisis

More and more research continues to become available about the effects of pornography on our brain, heart, relationships and society....

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Are You Being Catfished?

What happens when someone you thought you knew ends up being a stranger? One of the dangers of socializing online is Catfishing....

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How to Identify Predators

Sexual abuse predators have taken to virtual and live-streaming platforms to access and share exploitative and abusive content of children.

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