Layla's Blog
October 12, 2016
August 1, 2016
Chrysalis Sanctuary is moving!
I suppose it makes sense that a blog named after chrysalis will change forms rather quickly.The butterfly can’t remain in the cocoon forever, can she? Well, I’m out of my chrysalis…which means that A) my blog is now video-focused and B) it has been integrated with my author website. Thank you for following me to the new location. Please update…
July 22, 2016
July 14, 2016
Why I'm giving you my best book, the one that got me a literary agent, for FREE
(In a hurry? Click here now to get Demolition Love for FREE)On January 31, 2016, I made the commitment to go all the way into the pain around my abuse. For the past year and a half, I'd been remembering sexual abuse, but now new memories had returned.I was avictim of child prostitution.After making this commitment, I expected things to get a lot worse before they got better. And they did--for a few days I fell through all the layers of pain within me. Then something surprising happened. As I...
July 4, 2016
Virtual Book Reading: Demolition Love by Layla
Hi everyone! Exciting news: I’m upgrading my blog to a video-focused platform. Stay tuned for the details. For the moment, enjoy this taste of what’s to come… I wish you could have all attended Vino Novellus, the local event where I read aloud from Demolition Love and brought down the house. Since you couldn’t, I recorded this virtual book reading…
Virtual Book Reading: Demolition Love by Layla
Listen to me read the first chapter ofDemolition Love. Read it for FREE today on all major ebook platforms.Summary:Welcome to the world’s only independent society of teenagers. In D-town, there are three genders—guys, femmes, and in-betweens. And there are three rules:1. Keep your blood to yourself.2. Agreements between gangs are binding.3. The Dance is safe space.The Dance, D-town’s all-night dance club, blasts a techno beat 24/7. The loud music protects the street kids from the sonic pulses...
Summary:Welcome to the world’s only independent society of teenagers. In D-town, there are three genders—guys, femmes, and in-betweens. And there are three rules:1. Keep your blood to yourself.2. Agreements between gangs are binding.3. The Dance is safe space.The Dance, D-town’s all-night dance club, blasts a techno beat 24/7. The loud music protects the street kids from the sonic pulses...
June 27, 2016
Love is not a feeling
Did you know YOU are in Love, all the time, no matter what?(Just found this old video. Enjoy!)
June 25, 2016
Child Prostitution Is A First World Problem
Transcript“Hi. I’m Layla.I’m not ready to record this video. No one is ever ready, probably, to record a video like this.I want to talk about secrets and telling the truth. I want to speak to anybody who has a secret that they feel like they can’t tell.I'm 34 years old; I live in the Canadian Rockies, in a beautiful tourist town – the same town I grew up in – and, I am a survivor of child prostitution, torture, and incest.I feel like there’s a lot more talk these days about child sexual abuse...
June 15, 2016
Protected: Triumph Pt1 Module 3
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June 1, 2016
Protected: Picture for Ayla
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