Ep 106| Featuring: Colette (Coco) Ramazani

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This episode features our guest, Colette (Coco) Ramazani, a survivor of childhood trauma, spiritual abuse, and war rape.  She now has a Master's degree, and is an author and a speaker with a passion for helping women find safety. 

TOPICS COVERED:
- Her journey of losing both parents at a young age in the DR Congo, going from wealth to being an impoverished orphan as her and her 21 siblings were scattered when her father died because of money mismanagement, none of the wives or daughters were taught how to handle the estate
- When she knew education was her way out and how smart she is
- Becoming a Christian to sing in the choir as a teenager - only to be molested and abused by the pastor for years
- Going to Congolese college - only to fail her first class ever and leave the school after she refused to sleep with her professor
- Being cheated on by her fiance right before the wedding
- Moving to Rwanda with her sister who abused her when the genocide war broke out
- Back to the Congo, finding her entreprenuer spirit yet relying on her family left her homeless
- Started working in politics, becoming an aid to the President, excelling in administration, only to be raped by her boss
- Abandoned in a military camp to be systematically raped by soldiers in 1999
- In 2000, came to the US and found out she was infected with HIV
- Wanting to die and feeling like being a smart woman is a curse
- Going to college and getting her Masters in between hospital stays and while fighting for her physical and mental health to stay alive
- What it was like to work with a Congolese male author to tell her story by writing things down to get them out of her to give him the information to put together as a book and published her life story in 2013
- The backlash that happened when the book came out but she fought back!
- The pastor was removed from power and then died quickly!
- This is her story
- Changing her personal culture so she can help change the culture of her country
- The Power of Nature - nature has become her medicine, singing her therapy
- We must preserve the Earth
- No shame in therapy - you must take care of yourself no matter the stigma

GUESTS MOST HELPFUL RECOVERY RESOURCES IN THEIR JOURNEY:
1. Therapy & a team of medical professionals and medications
2. Nature & Singing

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1. Website
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