http:\/\/www.firstlutheransouthington.org\/<\/a> I was deeply touched by the deep attention of the guest, the tears, the confessions and all the hugs. Almost at every event I hear “You just told my story” After hearing these words we immediately are connected and a amazing hug follows.<\/p>\nI always leave a speaking event with a grateful heart, and believe I taught something and made a difference in some ones life. I hope my vulnerability and authentic self will give someone in the room the courage to begin their own journey of Crawling Out.<\/p>\n
Hugs<\/p>\n
Casey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I spend much of my time visiting local churches to connect with some of the people. I feel four or five visits before I am there for a speaking event allows me to have brief conversations with many to help them understand what I am all about. Child abuse and domestic violence statistics are ALARMING!!! … <\/p>\n
Continue reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[8,50,48,49],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-violence","tag-abuse","tag-adverse-childhood-experiences","tag-churches","tag-first-lutheran-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawlingout.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawlingout.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawlingout.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawlingout.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawlingout.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crawlingout.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/crawlingout.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawlingout.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawlingout.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawlingout.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/crawlingout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/First-Lutheran-5-225x300.jpg\")
I spend much of my time visiting local churches to connect with some of the people. I feel four or five visits before I am there for a speaking event allows me to have brief conversations with many to help them understand what I am all about.<\/p>\n