"Evan's Voice"
A Boy with a Disability. Abused and Failed by Many. And His Mother's Quest for Justice.
Evan’s Voice: A Story Born from Love, Loss, and a Mother’s Promise
I would give anything to have never had a reason to write this book.
Evan’s Voice was not born from a dream of becoming an author. It was born from a nightmare.
It was born from the moment I learned that my son, an individual with a disability who trusted the people around him, had been hurt by people he knew and trusted. It was born from fear. From heartbreak. From betrayal. From questions that will never have good enough answers.
And it was born from a promise I made as Evan’s mother:
What happened to him would not be the end of his story. His voice would not be silenced.
And I would NEVER stop fighting for him.
Evan’s Voice tells the story I wish our family never had to live.
It is the raw and deeply personal story of a mother fighting for her son after discovering the unimaginable, and of a family learning just how devastating the consequences can be when an individual with a disability is not protected, understood, believed, or heard.
There are parts of this story that still hurt to tell.
Because abuse does not end when the abuse stops.
Not only for the individual who was hurt, but for the entire family who loves them.
When someone you knew, and loved, and believed was safe betrays that trust and hurts someone you love, it changes you, forever.
You begin to question people differently. You wonder who is truly safe. You second guess relationships you once would have trusted without hesitation.
For the family, trusting someone can mean placing the person you love most in someone else’s hands and wondering whether you could survive being wrong again.
It can shatter a family’s belief that they know what safe looks like. That is a loss people rarely see.
The abuse may have stopped.
But the way an individual and their family experience trust, relationships, safety, and the world around them can be changed forever. And for an individual with a disability who may have difficulty understanding what happened, communicating it, or processing the trauma, those wounds can reach into nearly every part of life.
But Evan’s Voice is not only about what was taken from Evan. It is about what could not be taken from him.
It became a way to ask the questions we should all be asking.
Who is Evan's Voice for?
And Evan’s Voice became something bigger than our family.
It became Voices of Change 2018.
It helped inspire Evan Says.
It became a mission to empower individuals with disabilities, their families, and the community through education, awareness, advocacy, and support to help prevent abuse, neglect, and exploitation while creating a safer world where every voice is valued, protected, heard, and empowered.to educate, empower, advocate, and help protect individuals with disabilities so another family might be spared from learning these lessons the way ours did.
I cannot go back and change what happened to my son. But I will spend the rest of my life making sure what happened to him was not for nothing. That is my promise to Evan.
And that is why I will keep telling his story.
Because every individual deserves to be safe.
Because every individual deserves to be heard.
And because every voice matters.
Evan’s Voice is available on Amazon.
Scan the QR code on this post to learn more.
Nicole Moehring | Keynote Speaker
International Award-Winning Author • Disability Advocate • Survivor
Built From Pain • Led by Purpose • Driven to Help Others
A Note to Our Readers
Finding Myself contains personal and sometimes difficult discussions of domestic abuse, trauma, loss, and other experiences that some readers may find upsetting or triggering.
Please take care of yourself while reading. If at any point the content feels overwhelming, frightening, or brings up difficult emotions or memories, it is okay to stop. It is okay to put the book down. It is okay to take a break.
You do not have to keep reading simply because you started.
If something in these pages reminds you of your own experiences, or if you are currently experiencing abuse, please consider reaching out to someone you trust or seeking support from a qualified professional or an organization that supports individuals experiencing abuse.
Your safety and well-being matter more than finishing a page, a chapter, or this book.
Please take the time and space you need to care for yourself.
I would give anything to have never had a reason to write this book.
Evan’s Voice was not born from a dream of becoming an author. It was born from a nightmare.
It was born from the moment I learned that my son, an individual with a disability who trusted the people around him, had been hurt by people he knew and trusted. It was born from fear. From heartbreak. From betrayal. From questions that will never have good enough answers.
And it was born from a promise I made as Evan’s mother:
What happened to him would not be the end of his story. His voice would not be silenced.
And I would NEVER stop fighting for him.
Evan’s Voice tells the story I wish our family never had to live.
It is the raw and deeply personal story of a mother fighting for her son after discovering the unimaginable, and of a family learning just how devastating the consequences can be when an individual with a disability is not protected, understood, believed, or heard.
There are parts of this story that still hurt to tell.
Because abuse does not end when the abuse stops.
- Trauma stays.
- Fear stays.
- And the loss of trust stays.
Not only for the individual who was hurt, but for the entire family who loves them.
When someone you knew, and loved, and believed was safe betrays that trust and hurts someone you love, it changes you, forever.
You begin to question people differently. You wonder who is truly safe. You second guess relationships you once would have trusted without hesitation.
- You begin questioning people you never would have questioned before.
- You question intentions.
- You question relationships.
- You question situations that once felt completely safe.
- And sometimes, you even question yourself.
- How did we not know?
- What did we miss?
- Who can we trust now?
- How do we know someone is truly safe?
- How do we protect the person we love without teaching them to be afraid of the world?
For the family, trusting someone can mean placing the person you love most in someone else’s hands and wondering whether you could survive being wrong again.
- You watch more closely.
- You ask more questions.
- You notice things other people might overlook.
- And even when someone enters your life with the very best intentions, there can still be a quiet question in the back of your mind:
- Can I really trust you with someone I love?
It can shatter a family’s belief that they know what safe looks like. That is a loss people rarely see.
The abuse may have stopped.
But the way an individual and their family experience trust, relationships, safety, and the world around them can be changed forever. And for an individual with a disability who may have difficulty understanding what happened, communicating it, or processing the trauma, those wounds can reach into nearly every part of life.
But Evan’s Voice is not only about what was taken from Evan. It is about what could not be taken from him.
- His worth.
- His courage.
- His ability to love.
- And ultimately, his voice.
It became a way to ask the questions we should all be asking.
- Who is teaching individuals with disabilities about their bodies and boundaries?
- Who is teaching them that they can say no?
- Who is making sure they know whom they can tell?
- Who is paying attention when they communicate that something is wrong in a way we may not immediately recognize?
- And when they finally find a way to tell us, are we listening?
Who is Evan's Voice for?
- Evan’s Voice is for the parent who lies awake wondering whether they have done enough to keep the person they love safe.
- It is for the caregiver who carries a responsibility few people truly understand.
- It is for the professional who needs to see the individual behind the diagnosis.
- It is for the advocate who refuses to look away.
- And it is for every individual with a disability whose voice has ever been underestimated, dismissed, misunderstood, or silenced.
- It is a mother keeping her promise.
- A promise that what happened to Evan will matter.
- A promise that his pain will have a purpose.
- A promise that the lessons our family learned at such an unimaginable cost will be used to help another family.
- A promise that silence will not win.
- And a promise that as long as I have a voice, I will use mine to help protect his and theirs.
And Evan’s Voice became something bigger than our family.
It became Voices of Change 2018.
It helped inspire Evan Says.
It became a mission to empower individuals with disabilities, their families, and the community through education, awareness, advocacy, and support to help prevent abuse, neglect, and exploitation while creating a safer world where every voice is valued, protected, heard, and empowered.to educate, empower, advocate, and help protect individuals with disabilities so another family might be spared from learning these lessons the way ours did.
I cannot go back and change what happened to my son. But I will spend the rest of my life making sure what happened to him was not for nothing. That is my promise to Evan.
And that is why I will keep telling his story.
Because every individual deserves to be safe.
Because every individual deserves to be heard.
And because every voice matters.
Evan’s Voice is available on Amazon.
Scan the QR code on this post to learn more.
Nicole Moehring | Keynote Speaker
International Award-Winning Author • Disability Advocate • Survivor
Built From Pain • Led by Purpose • Driven to Help Others
A Note to Our Readers
Finding Myself contains personal and sometimes difficult discussions of domestic abuse, trauma, loss, and other experiences that some readers may find upsetting or triggering.
Please take care of yourself while reading. If at any point the content feels overwhelming, frightening, or brings up difficult emotions or memories, it is okay to stop. It is okay to put the book down. It is okay to take a break.
You do not have to keep reading simply because you started.
If something in these pages reminds you of your own experiences, or if you are currently experiencing abuse, please consider reaching out to someone you trust or seeking support from a qualified professional or an organization that supports individuals experiencing abuse.
Your safety and well-being matter more than finishing a page, a chapter, or this book.
Please take the time and space you need to care for yourself.
"Finding Myself"
Overcoming Abuse, Heartbreak and Loss Then, Finding True Love
Sometimes finding yourself means surviving everything that tried to make you lose who you were.
Finding Myself is Nicole Moehring’s deeply personal story of love, heartbreak, loss, abuse, motherhood, and the long journey of finding herself again.
Nicole openly shares some of the most painful chapters of her life, including years of infertility, the heartbreak of an adoption that fell through, becoming a mother through adoption, and learning a year later that her son had been diagnosed with Autism and Fragile X Syndrome.
She also shares a part of her story that remained hidden for far too long: surviving domestic abuse during her first marriage and the difficult journey of rebuilding a life after leaving.
This is not a story about a life untouched by hardship.
It is a story about what happens when life breaks your heart again and again, yet somehow, you keep going.
It is about losing pieces of yourself while trying to survive. Questioning your worth. Living through circumstances you never imagined would become part of your story. And eventually finding the courage to believe that your life can become something different.
Nicole does not tell her story because every wound disappeared or because the road afterward was easy. She tells it because too many people suffer quietly. Behind closed doors, people are living through abuse, infertility, loss, heartbreak, isolation, fear, and circumstances they are afraid or ashamed to talk about. Too often, silence leaves people believing they are the only ones struggling. Finding Myself breaks that silence.
That somewhere, someone who feels lost, afraid, or ready to give up will read her story and realize that their story is not over yet.
A Note to Our Readers
Finding Myself contains personal and sometimes difficult discussions of domestic abuse, trauma, loss, and other experiences that some readers may find upsetting or triggering.
Please take care of yourself while reading. If at any point the content feels overwhelming, frightening, or brings up difficult emotions or memories, it is okay to stop. It is okay to put the book down. It is okay to take a break.
You do not have to keep reading simply because you started.
If something in these pages reminds you of your own experiences, or if you are currently experiencing abuse, please consider reaching out to someone you trust or seeking support from a qualified professional or an organization that supports individuals experiencing abuse.
Your safety and well-being matter more than finishing a page, a chapter, or this book.
Please take the time and space you need to care for yourself.
Finding Myself is Nicole Moehring’s deeply personal story of love, heartbreak, loss, abuse, motherhood, and the long journey of finding herself again.
Nicole openly shares some of the most painful chapters of her life, including years of infertility, the heartbreak of an adoption that fell through, becoming a mother through adoption, and learning a year later that her son had been diagnosed with Autism and Fragile X Syndrome.
She also shares a part of her story that remained hidden for far too long: surviving domestic abuse during her first marriage and the difficult journey of rebuilding a life after leaving.
This is not a story about a life untouched by hardship.
It is a story about what happens when life breaks your heart again and again, yet somehow, you keep going.
It is about losing pieces of yourself while trying to survive. Questioning your worth. Living through circumstances you never imagined would become part of your story. And eventually finding the courage to believe that your life can become something different.
Nicole does not tell her story because every wound disappeared or because the road afterward was easy. She tells it because too many people suffer quietly. Behind closed doors, people are living through abuse, infertility, loss, heartbreak, isolation, fear, and circumstances they are afraid or ashamed to talk about. Too often, silence leaves people believing they are the only ones struggling. Finding Myself breaks that silence.
- It is for the person who has looked in the mirror and wondered where the person they once were went.
- It is for the person who has stayed somewhere because leaving seemed impossible.
- It is for anyone who has experienced loss so profound that they wondered how life could ever feel whole again.
- And it is for the person who needs to be reminded that the chapter they are living today does not have to be the final chapter of their story.
- This is more than a story about surviving.
- It is a story about finding yourself after losing so much.
- About choosing hope after heartbreak.
- About discovering your worth after someone tried to take it from you.
- And about learning that beginning again can sometimes lead you to the life you never thought you would have.
That somewhere, someone who feels lost, afraid, or ready to give up will read her story and realize that their story is not over yet.
A Note to Our Readers
Finding Myself contains personal and sometimes difficult discussions of domestic abuse, trauma, loss, and other experiences that some readers may find upsetting or triggering.
Please take care of yourself while reading. If at any point the content feels overwhelming, frightening, or brings up difficult emotions or memories, it is okay to stop. It is okay to put the book down. It is okay to take a break.
You do not have to keep reading simply because you started.
If something in these pages reminds you of your own experiences, or if you are currently experiencing abuse, please consider reaching out to someone you trust or seeking support from a qualified professional or an organization that supports individuals experiencing abuse.
Your safety and well-being matter more than finishing a page, a chapter, or this book.
Please take the time and space you need to care for yourself.
