Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2768

Tonight's special guest is Felisha Johnson from Miami, Florida, who has an incredible story of transformation as someone physically and sexually abused, taken from their loved ones, and placed in the foster care system where she would stay for ten years. She emancipated out at age sixteen, facing multiple hardships. Felisha refused to allow her past to dictate her future, so she pushed through the pain to embark on her healing journey and began to see triumph in her trauma. "I am a survivor," she says. "At seven years old, I was sexually molested by an uncle, physically abused by my stepfather and labeled as a troubled child by my mother .. so anything that I did or said was terrible." It turned out one day she was at school, sitting at her desk when a teacher took one look at her and immediately took her to the front office. "I thought I was in trouble, and it felt like forever sitting there in the front office. The school administration asked me why I had multiple bruises on my body," she says."That's when life changed for me. On that day I was taken  from the only family I knew and placed in the foster care system  by the Department Of Children's & Families." Felisha became quite the advocate and activist. "I created Heal Your Story, LLC & LAP Foundation Inc to help trauma survivors and to encourage at-risk youth to transition from their hurtful experiences to living and building a better life." Now a mother to 6 beautiful children, a wife to an amazing husband, with a successful business, she says, "You can live a beautiful life after trauma", concluding," "I help survivors transition from painful experiences to live and create a better life!"