Finding Healing After Abuse: Kavanaugh, Sexual Assault, and Me Too - w/ Nicole Bromley

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Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

How courageously telling your story can interrupt cycles of silence, shame, and secrecy—especially in the church. Mike welcomes author and activist Nicole Braddock Bromley for a powerful and vulnerable conversation about surviving childhood sexual abuse, sharing her story publicly at age 15, and how that one act unlocked voices of countless others suffering in silence. Nicole shares the painful truth about why abuse often remains hidden in churches and affluent communities and offers a compelling challenge to the church to step into transparency, healing, and active prevention.

From her journey of healing to advocacy through her organizations OneVOICE and OneVOICE4Freedom, Nicole unpacks how the Church's image-obsessed culture often suppresses conversations that could set people free—especially women and children. The episode also explores current events like the Kavanaugh hearings and the MeToo/ChurchToo movements, laying bare how politicizing survivors' stories causes further trauma. This episode is both heartbreaking and hopeful, a necessary listen for anyone seeking to become an ally to victims of abuse and a faithful representative of Jesus.

Key Takeaways:
• Understanding the Long-Term Effects of Abuse – Nicole opens up about how years of hiding her secret affected her identity and mental health and how breaking her silence became the first step toward healing.
• The Power of Vulnerability – How sharing her story at age 15 sparked others to come forward and say “Me too,” showing the radical impact of one person’s courage.
• Abuse and the Church – Why church culture can make abuse harder to detect and disclose, and how image-protection often trumps victim protection.
• Navigating the MeToo and Kavanaugh Era – Nicole discusses the emotional toll of public disbelief, victim-blaming, and how these dynamics retraumatize survivors.
• Raising Kids for Justice and Empathy – Insightful and urgent conversations about how to raise boys and girls in a sexually exploited culture, moving beyond “consent” toward honor, accountability, and mutual respect.

Guest Highlight:
Nicole Braddock Bromley – An author, speaker, and survivor-advocate, Nicole is the founder of OneVOICE, empowering abuse survivors to find healing and purpose, and OneVOICE4Freedom, combating child sex trafficking through education and prevention in the U.S. and abroad. Her books include Hush, Breathe, and Soar.

Resources Mentioned:
• Nicole’s ministry and nonprofit – iamonevoice.org
• OneVOICE on Instagram – @iamonevoice
• Sexual Abuse and Recovery Statistics – RAINN.org
• "Hush: Moving from Silence to Healing After Childhood Sexual Abuse" – Nicole Braddock Bromley
• "Soar: A Next Step in Healing from Sexual Abuse" – Nicole Braddock Bromley

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0:00.0	everybody. Everybody, Mike here.
0:21.7	Welcome to the Vox podcast.
0:23.0	So glad you are tuning in.
0:24.5	So glad to be a part of your life.
0:25.7	Got a very, very special guest with me today via Skype from the great city of Columbus, Ohio.
0:33.4	A different suburb of Columbus, Ohio.
0:35.9	But my friend, Nicole, Nicole, say hello.
0:39.0	Hello.
0:40.3	Nicole is, so she's a big deal.
0:44.0	First of all, that's just all her Twitter bio says.
0:47.8	It's just big deal.
0:49.9	Nicole and I shared a stage together years ago.
0:57.0	And she just published her first book,
1:00.0	I think, right? It was Hush, right? Was your first one?
1:04.2	It was my, yeah, Hush was my first. I actually had two out. My second was breathe,
1:13.5	and we were talking about that time, my third one. And you told me, if you have a third book book your third book should be called lie and i love that so much and i ended up naming my third book sore perfect yep or or
1:21.3	it could be thor if you have a lisp so so either way, either way. You're so weird. So, oh, beyond, beyond. I mean, my wife, yeah, yeah, she just had no idea.
1:36.9	So, Nicole, tell us, tell our sweet Vox audience, tell us a little bit about what you're doing and then we'll kind of work backwards into how you got to be doing this.
1:50.7	Sure. Well, so I grew up in a small town in Ohio and almost everyone who knew me sort of considered me like the perfect girl from the perfect family.
2:00.6	You know, I was the poster
2:02.4	child of a small community. So I was real involved in school and all that. On the outside,
2:07.1	everything looked ideal. I was an athlete. I was homecoming queen, student council president.
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