So Elizabeth, I understand you've been
such a tremendous advocate for other victims,
and you recently met with the USA gymnasts,
who were victims of the team physician Dr. Larry Nasser.
What did you say to them?
They were such incredible women.
Listening to them talk about their story
and what they went through,
I just feel like they've set the standard
for what victims can look to,
I mean for how powerful we really are.
And when we come together,
there isn't anything that we can't overcome,
I mean they just, were so amazing.
And it also made me think a lot about
what are we teaching our children today?
We talk a lot about fire safety.
We talk a lot about like, earthquake safety,
we talk a lot about safety.
But in my entire education in the school system,
I don't ever remember anyone talking to me about like,
sexual violence safety, and I could be wrong,
but I'm willing to make a bet there are probably
a lot more victims of sexual violence
than there are like, burn victims.
Stop, drop, and roll is great,
but I don't think that's going to protect you
from someone trying to rape you.
And we should be addressing that.
Hopefully we see changes in the school setting
and other places, because I mean,
there's a lot more of it going on.
Obviously that's coming out now with the #MeToo movement.
How do you feel about that?
I think the #MeToo movement has been long overdue.
Definitely.
(applause)
As a survivor, and as I've gone out
and met with other survivors,
I can't even tell you how many times when I've presented
and I've spoken about these topics
and these issues that afterwards I have.
Women, and not just women,
but men too coming up to me and saying,
"I've never told anyone this. Because you spoke out,
I feel like I can now speak out."
And so I feel like, the #MeToo movement
is doing that on such a larger scale.
I mean, people who have never spoken out
about what's happened to them
are feeling this comorbidity
and that they can share what's happened to them too,
and I think that's so needed,
because this isn't a topic that you can just hide away
or think once it's done and over with
it's really done and over with, because it's not.
I think it haunts people through their lives.
Exactly.
If you internalize all of this, there will be no resolution.
You're going to deal with this internal struggle
the rest of your life.
Absolutely, and Elizabeth,
I want to follow up on that and ask you about coping.
Because when you continue to heal,
you can still sometimes experience flashbacks,
symptoms from the past, how have you dealt with those,
and how have you moved forward when that happens to you?
So there are definitely times when like,
I'll see a picture of someone,
or someone will do something and I'll be like,
"whoa, that's a little bit freaky."
But for me, I always just have to remind myself
where I am in life right now.
I'm like okay, like yes,
I acknowledge that this does remind me
of Brian David Mitchell, Wanda Barzee, or being chained up.
It does remind me of that, but I'm not chained up anymore.
I'm not with them anymore.
So I understand now, you're a mom, you're married,
so how does this influence you as a mother and a wife?
It scares me because I think the worst thing in the world
would be to have something happen to my children.
And so part of me wants to just wrap them in bubble wrap,
and move out to the middle of nowhere, and build a compound,
and never let anyone in or let them out.
But I always have to remind myself.
That's not doing them any favors.
One day, they will leave home.
One day I will have to let them go
and experience life on their own terms,
and so really, the best thing I can do is to educate them,
is to prepare them and, I mean right now they're young.
My daughter is only three, and my son's ten months, so.
So I'm not having to have like,
huge heavy conversations with them, but even my daughter,
she's three years old, I mean I talk to her already.
There's three things I want her to know every day.
That she's loved unconditionally.
That no one has the right to scare her, hurt her.
And if anyone ever does,
which is maybe my most important point,
is that she needs to tell me.
So when I talk to her, her name's Chloe.
We call her Coco.
And I say, "Okay Coco, you tell me.
You tell me if anyone hurts you, or like scares you."
And these days she's like, "Daddy said no more juice."
Or like, "He took my goldfish away."
It's silly now, but I'm happy she tells me that now,
because maybe as she grows,
she'll continue to tell me those things that scare her,
or worry her, or make her upset.
Elizabeth, I have a favor to ask of you.
Yeah.
And that is to continue writing books,
continue to tell your story,
because I could not be more impressed with you.
You are just such a wonderful spokesperson for perseverance.
So I am proud of you.
Keep doing what you're doing.
And everyone in the audience is very lucky today,
because you're going home
with a copy of Elizabeth's new book
Where There's Hope.
Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up.
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