Surviving Child Abuse, Sex Trafficking & Institutional Abuse A Trauma Survivor Thriver’s Podcast

Lorilee Binstock 00:06:04
Thank you so much again, for joining us.
Sorry for the delay. We are on. This is A Trauma Survivor Thriver’s Podcast, and I’m Lorilee Binstock.
Thank you so much for joining me live on Fireside chat where you can be a part of the conversation as my virtual audience. I’m your host Lorilee Binstock.
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Today’s guest is Lora DeVore. Lora is the author of darkness was my candle and memoir that traces her life as a survivor of child abuse, sex trafficking
illegal pharma drug research and institutional abuse.
Now she devote her self spreading the word of these atrocities with her personal documentation of her story with in advanced degree in clinical psychology and recognized as a national expert in Catalyst change. Her wisdom comes from the field of psychology,
trans personal development and spiritual psychology.
Laura, thank you so much for joining me today.

Lora DeVore 00:17:27
Thank you so much, Laura. I’m so sorry. It took me a while to to get on, but I’m glad to be here.

Lorilee Binstock 00:17:34
Well, thank you. You are not the first one. You won’t be the last one who because is she’s trying to get on this platform.

Lora DeVore 00:17:37
Okay. That’s good.

Lorilee Binstock 00:17:39
So don’t even worry about it.
I do wanna get into your story. I know I labeled this title
institutional abuse, but they you’ve
you’ve endured so much more than that. But I do want you to talk about your childhood and what led you

Lora DeVore 00:17:50
Yes.

Lorilee Binstock 00:17:55
to
become institutional.

Lora DeVore 00:17:58
Sure. I’d be happy too.
But the first thing I wanna say is
why I wrote the book and I wrote it as an act of love
because my story didn’t just happen to me. It has happened to thousands of others.
And it’s a part of our collective shadow,

Lorilee Binstock 00:18:12
Mhmm

Lora DeVore 00:18:15
and my story is not just about trauma. It’s about redemption.
And in all the darkness, there was always grace,
and that’s that’s why the the subtype subtitle of the book darkness was my candle is called an odyssey of survival and grace.
So I
grew up with a mom that had been very, very injured at age three
during the great depression. And she I I really believe that she’s stopped growing.
Psychologically.
She was parent by some siblings. Her mother was cat and her father had died in a blizzard

Lorilee Binstock 00:18:52
Mhmm.

Lora DeVore 00:18:52
in the middle of nowhere in Northern Wisconsin,
and they would have starved had the older sister not hyped into town to get a job, which left the care of my mother and her other siblings, and my mother was age three. There was a brand new baby, two other girls.
And then a couple of boys,
but my mother and the siblings would have starved, had my an not done that. But that left the care of
my grandmother and my

Lorilee Binstock 00:19:32
Laura, are you there?
Laura.
Hello, Laura.
We are dealing with a lot of technical issues this morning.
I’m
sure this was
we’ll try to figure this out, Laura. Can you hear me?

Lora DeVore 00:20:51
Or and found his body in the kitchen
and called halfway we up to steering well for my mom,
and there was no answer and she called the sheriff
and they came and removed his body and everyone was hurry because there was a pretty serious blizzard going on at the time to get home so nobody checked up the stairs because she had told the share she checked. So I was left and

Lorilee Binstock 00:21:11
Oh,
laura. I’m I’m so sorry to interrupt you. We you you you dropped for a minute and night you just came back.

Lora DeVore 00:21:20
Oh, okay. Okay.

Lorilee Binstock 00:21:21
I’m so sorry. Would you... I know that you you were speaking and
Would you mind starting over