Memphis’ Survivor-Led Safety Hub Eradicating the Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse

Color Your Story Onto Mine (CYSOM) is Memphis’ survivor-led safety hub — using art, peer support, and justice partnerships to prevent child sexual abuse and restore healing.

Through The Newborn Method™, we guide survivors, victims, at-risk youth, and even offenders toward truth, dignity, and freedom — eradicating the legacy of child sexual abuse one story at a time.

Child sexual abuse doesn’t end when the act ends. It leaves behind cycles of trauma, addiction, violence, silence, and shame that ripple through generations.

At CYSOM, we confront the full truth: survivors, families, and even those who became offenders all carry the mark of abuse.

Through art, storytelling, peer support, and The Newborn Method™, we:

• Break cycles of silence and shame
   
• Transform trauma into creative expression
   
• Restore dignity and accountability
   
• Build safer communities across Tennessee and beyond
   

The Newborn Method™ is intellectual property owned by Violet Newborn and is licensed exclusively to CYSOM for implementation.
 

CYSOM is officially recognized by the Tennessee Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services (TDMHSAS) as a Recovery Community of Faith, certified through the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives.

• Certified: February 21, 2024
   
• Next Renewal: February 21, 2026
   

This certification allows us to partner with churches, mental health agencies, and state programs to create safe spaces where survivors and those in recovery can flourish.

We exist to eradicate the legacy of child sexual abuse by transforming:

• Silence → Storytelling
   
• Trauma → Art
   
• Isolation → Connection
   

We serve victims, survivors, at-risk youth, families, and offenders — because harm is born of harm, and the cycle must end with us.

CYSOM was born from the lived experience of Violet Newborn — a survivor of child sexual abuse, trafficking, ritual violence, domestic abuse, and systemic silencing.

Through faith, art, and storytelling, Violet created The Newborn Method™, a blueprint for healing that carried her from rage into freedom.

What once saved her is now offered to others: a path to choose light, forgiveness, and love.

• Addiction → Numbing pain with substances
   
• Violence → Repeating abuse until someone stops the cycle
   
• Silence → Protecting offenders while isolating survivors
   
• Grief → Turning into anger, distrust, and disconnection
   

When one person chooses healing, generations can be free.

CYSOM works at the intersection of art, recovery, and justice reform:

• Art & Storytelling – Survivor workshops, murals, and journaling
   
• Healing & Peer Support – Faith-based, survivor-led recovery spaces
   
• Youth Diversion – Partnering with juvenile courts to keep Memphis youth out of incarceration
   
• Emergency Art Kits – Delivered to child advocacy centers, ERs, rape crisis centers, and domestic violence shelters, giving children a safe outlet during trauma response
   
• Memorial & Remembrance – Honoring lives silenced by abuse, incarceration, and violence
   

“From Caterpillar Behavior to Butterfly Testimonies”

At CYSOM, we believe justice must include both accountability and restoration. That’s why we expand our work beyond survivors to reach those inside prisons and reentry programs.

• Correctional Pilot Programs – Bringing The Newborn Method™ into prisons so offenders can confront trauma, take accountability, and break cycles of reoffending
   
• Reentry Support – Partnering with community programs to help returning citizens reintegrate with dignity and accountability
   
• Youth of Memphis – Providing alternatives to incarceration through art, mentoring, and court diversion
   
• System Partnerships – Active collaborations with Georgia State Corrections, Georgia County Juvenile Courts, Elbert Shaw Juvenile Detention, and pending contracts in New York City
   

Justice and restoration mean no one is left behind in the healing process.

A world where:

• Children are safe
   
• Survivors are honored
   
• Offenders are accountable with dignity
   
• Communities tell the truth
   

CYSOM is more than healing — it’s a movement. We turn personal stories into public purpose, guiding others to the same light that saved us.

My name is Violet Newborn, and I am the founder of CYSOM.

I am a survivor of child sexual abuse, trafficking, ritual violence, domestic abuse, and a justice system that failed me. For years, I was the only one in my family and community willing to speak the truth. That silence once fueled my rage.

But God led me to transform it. Through art, storytelling, and faith, I found healing — and I created The Newborn Method™ to help others do the same.

CYSOM was born out of this calling. We are not just another organization — we are a movement to eradicate the legacy of child sexual abuse.

➡️ Your story matters.
➡️ Your voice is not too heavy to carry.
➡️ Healing is possible.

With love and solidarity,
Violet Newborn
Founder, Color Your Story Onto Mine (CYSOM)