The Friday Greenhouse: Tending the Soil of Truth

Creating safer spaces for survivors

In gardening, if a seed fails to grow, we don’t usually blame the seed. We look at the soil. We check the light. We ask if the environment was too harsh for something fragile to take root.

When we talk about why women don’t come forward, we are talking about a garden where the soil has been packed too hard by tradition, shame, and silence for truth to br…