“I had a lot of family trauma. I was sexually abused by my dad, and I just went through years of repressing any of my feelings of what happened and acknowledging it by doing drugs and drinking.”

“It hit me like a ton of bricks to know I was loved unconditionally… like, ok, I am ready to trust you…I’m ready to give it all to you.”

In this interview, Latina stylist Joann Dickenson shares about healing from sexual abuse, and all the control mechanisms that went with that trauma. She also explains how her perspective of God shifted from an angry, shaming one, to one who unconditionally loves her as she is. It was to that Higher Power she learned to surrender.