Virgin Ministries & Counseling

04/22/2026

Detectives reportedly learned that patrons could pay a cover fee to enter the business and engage in sexual contact.

04/07/2026

Laughter isn’t denial—it’s defiance.

It refuses to let darkness have the final word. It reminds us that brokenness isn’t the whole story and that joy is still worth choosing.

When we laugh together, we push back against despair—and make space for hope.

Tickets are going fast! Get yours TODAY: https://www.poiemafoundation.org/C4C2026/

03/11/2026

Come out to support Poiemas Comedy for a Cause.

ROCKWALL, TX (March 11, 2026) Rockwall-based Poiema Foundation, a human trafficking prevention and resource center, will host its fifth annual Comedy for a Cause event featuring comedian Mike Goodwin at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 24 at Bent Tree Bible Fellowship, 4141 International Parkway in Carrollto...

02/25/2026

Social Anxiety

02/25/2026

02/21/2026

02/21/2026

01/13/2026

This Human Trafficking Awareness Month, we encourage you to Be The One That Notices. Get the training, spot the signs, and step in to save a life. This is a closer issue than you might assume. 🏡 https://linktr.ee/poiema1

11/15/2025

That phrase gets thrown around a lot, and it sounds deep at first, but it’s vague, and can be harmful.

“Losing the identity you built around your pain” assumes that anything we developed in response to trauma is some kind of false self, something to be discarded. But from an Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) lens, the identity you built around your pain wasn’t artificial; it was intelligent. It was your nervous system’s best attempt to survive, find meaning, and stay connected to *something* when everything else broke.

Healing doesn’t mean ripping out those parts. It means creating conditions where those survival strategies are no longer *necessary*. It means making room for new experiences--safe connection, self-trust, groundedness--not erasing what came before. The so-called “identity around your pain” often holds your fiercest truths, your deepest care, your fire, your boundary-setting, your refusal to be erased. Why would we want to lose that?

What people are often trying to say, clumsily, is that healing can expand your sense of self. That you’re not *only* the pain. But that doesn’t mean rejecting the version of you that adapted to survive. That part deserves reverence, not exile.

So no, you don’t have to “lose” anything. You get to integrate it. You get to become *more", not less.

11/05/2025