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Using media to expose the crime of DV, sharing vital resources, & encouraging family peace. Every woman deserves a life free from fear.

Alison Soroka is the Founder and Executive Director of Smiles and Laughter Entertainment/Ending Abuse Media which was established in March 2011 and is an innovative media organization with the goal to increase awareness and knowledge about domestic violence. We also assist the public in identifying and accessing the resources available to victims and their families. Smiles and Laughter Entertainment/Ending Abuse Media aims to stimulate action by sharing stories, providing referrals, connecting critical resources, assisting in how to identify the risk factors of domestic violence, and displaying where victims can go for help. We are aligned with the City of Surrey's goal to "improve public awareness around the reality and perception of crime." Alison’s vision, "to leverage media to expose the crime of domestic violence, share vital resources, and encourage family peace," came from a combination of her experience in the film industry and being a thankful survivor of domestic violence. Being well-versed on the dynamics of this crime after having fled an abusive living situation (nearly losing her daughter's life and her own in the process) and also knowledgeable of media options, Alison is able to apply media as a primary tool of focus, using video, radio, print, and internet to reach the largest audiences. It is through this avenue that she seeks to promote the organization's motto of "Together We Can Break the Cycle of Abuse." As a mother of three children and a human welfare advocate, Alison passionately wants to contribute to "breaking the cycle of abuse" while making communities safer, more informed, and prouder places to live. She is disciplined and committed to assisting in the eradication of domestic violence. She believes this is possible as long as we, as a society, unite with strong, active, unified, and persistent voices to expose and ultimately annihilate this cowardly act and crime. There are no communities that are immune; therefore, making it all that much more important for us to reach the largest of audiences and inspire every one of use to do our part. Our future generations deserve the opportunity to enjoy a childhood filled with peace and innocence; not pain, suffering, or emotional trauma. Every child deserves to grow up knowing no threat of violence in their home. When we as a society can say that we feel safe and loved, then we know our work is done. Why we chose Smiles and Laughter Entertainment as our organization's name? Because this is the aftermath of what can be if we work together in providing love, support, and assistance to victims of domestic violence. If you believe in this vision, or even if you are just willing to consider it, please support Smiles and Laughter Entertainment/Ending Abuse Media in whatever way possible so we can work together towards our common goal.

10/26/2026

To you, wherever you are in your journey… 💜

If you are experiencing domestic abuse right now, please know that you are not alone. You do not deserve to be frightened, controlled, humiliated, threatened, or made to feel that you are somehow responsible for another person’s cruelty. You deserve safety, dignity, respect, and a life where you can breathe without fear.

If you are still in an abusive relationship, I want you to know that you do not have to be ready to leave today to deserve support today. Leaving is not always simple or safe. There may be children to protect, financial barriers, threats, fear, or a thousand reasons why your situation is complicated. You do not owe anyone an explanation for the time it takes you to find your way forward. Your safety matters, and so does your life.

If you have left an abusive relationship, but still find yourself looking over your shoulder, questioning your own memories, struggling to trust, or feeling the weight of what you endured, please be gentle with yourself. Leaving does not mean the pain disappears overnight. You may be rebuilding your confidence, your identity, your finances, your relationships, and your sense of peace, piece by piece. Healing is not a race, and you are not behind.

If you are rebuilding your life, even when nobody sees how hard you are trying, I hope you recognize your own courage. Every boundary you establish, every moment you choose yourself, every small step toward reclaiming your freedom matters. You do not have to be completely healed to be proud of how far you have come.

If you are watching someone you love experience abuse, please do not underestimate the power of your compassion. Listen without judgment. Believe them. Offer support without demanding that they make decisions before they are ready. Remind them that they are worthy of love that does not hurt, manipulate, threaten, or diminish them. Sometimes, knowing that one person is willing to stand beside them can make a world of difference.

If you have lost someone to domestic abuse, my heart goes out to you. There are losses that words cannot adequately hold. May you find space to grieve, people who understand, and moments of peace amid the pain. Their life mattered. Your grief matters. And their story deserves to be remembered.

And if you are reading this feeling alone, unheard, forgotten, or unsure where to turn, please pause for a moment and hear these words:

YOU MATTER.

You are more than what someone has done to you. You are more than the fear you have lived with, the things you have lost, or the wounds you are still learning to heal. You are a human being deserving of kindness, safety, connection, and hope.

You do not have to tell your story publicly. You do not have to prove your pain. You do not have to be strong every minute of every day. And you do not have to walk this road entirely on your own.

Domestic violence does not always leave visible bruises. Sometimes, the deepest wounds are the ones nobody else can see. That is why awareness must extend beyond what we witness to what we are willing to listen to, understand, and acknowledge.

This Domestic Violence Awareness Month, let us remember those who are still surviving, those who have found their way out, those who are learning to live again, those standing beside a loved one, and those carrying the heartbreak of a loss that can never be undone.

Wherever you are in your journey, there is room for you here.

Through Ending Abuse Media, I am committed to raising awareness, amplifying the voices of those affected by abuse, encouraging meaningful action, and helping build a world where survivors are supported and future generations learn that love should never require someone to sacrifice their safety, dignity, or freedom.

I believe that awareness must lead to understanding, understanding must lead to action, and action must lead to change.

💜 You are seen. You are heard. You are worthy of safety. And you are not alone.

Together, we can break the cycle of abuse.

With compassion, understanding, and hope,

Alison Soroka
Founder & Executive Director
Ending Abuse Media

Awareness • Support • Prevention • Healing

10/05/2026

A golden anniversary does not necessarily mean a healthy marriage.

For generations, women were taught to stay quiet, keep the family together, protect the family image, and be a “good wife”—even when home was not a place of safety, respect, or love.

What happened behind closed doors was often swept under the carpet.

Many women had limited financial independence, limited autonomy, and few meaningful options to leave.

Enduring was often celebrated as commitment.

Silence was mistaken for strength.

But the next generations are saying: No more.

We deserve relationships where love is authentic.

Where respect goes both ways.

Where women are valued as equals—not controlled, diminished, or silenced.

Where home is a place of safety, not fear.

We often hear about the sanctity of life, the sanctity of marriage, and the sanctity of the home.

But what happens when violence exists within that marriage and inside that home?

The sanctity of marriage can never be used to sanctify abuse.

A marriage certificate does not give anyone the right to control another person.

A family’s outward appearance does not tell us what happens behind closed doors.

And staying married for decades is not proof that a relationship was healthy.

Today, more women are choosing independence and remaining single rather than accepting relationships that compromise their dignity, autonomy, or safety.

That is not a failure of women.

It is a demand for something better.

This Domestic Violence Awareness Month, let’s stop romanticizing endurance and start recognizing what healthy love actually looks like:

Equality. Respect. Accountability. Safety. Freedom.

Women should never have to sacrifice themselves to preserve the appearance of a family.

We deserve better.

And we are raising generations who will know the difference.

💜 Ending Abuse Media
Exposing the crime of domestic violence, sharing vital resources, and encouraging family peace.

09/30/2026

Silence is not neutrality—it is complicity.

Seven perpetrators. Fifty active observers receiving live updates for seven hours while a horrific act took place. Fifty men who chose to watch, stay quiet, and do nothing.

The “Cornell 57” isn’t just a story about seven individuals who committed an atrocity. It is a devastating indictment of a culture that protects abusers and excuses the audience that enables them. When 50 people witness abuse in real-time and choose silence, they choose to be complicit.

We do not just want accountability for the perpetrators. We want full transparency and named accountability for everyone who stood by. Culture changes only when the shield of silence is shattered.

Demand accountability.

Speak up.

End complicity.

💜

09/30/2026

🧡 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — September 30, 2026

Every child deserves to grow up surrounded by love, family, culture, safety, and the freedom to simply be a child.

It is our responsibility to honour that innocence—and to remember the children whose childhoods were taken from them.

For generations, Indigenous children were separated from their families and communities and sent to residential schools, where many experienced profound loss, abuse, and trauma. Their languages and cultural traditions were suppressed, their identities were attacked, and countless children never returned home.

Behind the history are real children, real families, and real lives.

Children who deserved to be protected.
Children whose voices deserved to be heard.
Children whose families deserved to know they were safe.

Their stories must not be forgotten.

Truth requires us to acknowledge what happened, to listen to Survivors, and to recognize the lasting impact residential schools continue to have on Indigenous families and communities.

Reconciliation requires more than remembering one day each year. It calls upon each of us to listen, learn, reflect, and take meaningful action toward a future where every child is valued, protected, and given the opportunity to grow up knowing where they belong.

🧡 September 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

🧡 Today, we remember the children who never made it home.

🧡 We honour the Survivors whose voices have helped bring truth into the light.

🧡 We remember the families and communities who continue to carry this grief.

🧡 And we commit to ensuring that the children of today and tomorrow are treated with the dignity, protection, and love that every child deserves.

Because every child matters.

09/27/2026

❤️ We’d Love to Connect With You on Instagram

We’re pleased to invite you to follow on Instagram, where we share:

• 📚 Education and awareness about domestic violence
• 💜 Information about abuse and unhealthy relationship dynamics
• 📖 Helpful resources and support
• 🌱 Messages focused on prevention, healing, and breaking the cycle of abuse

If this is a cause that matters to you, we’d be grateful to have you join us on Instagram. Your follow, engagement, and sharing can help us reach more people with information that may make a meaningful difference.

📷 Follow us on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/invites/contact/?utm_content=1yvlvj7&stkn=vlg1ni1tyhkg

Thank you for helping us build greater awareness, encourage education, and work toward safer, healthier families. ❤️

Alison Soroka
Founder & Executive Director
Ending Abuse Media

09/25/2026

Not all pain originates in the present. Much of it is the quiet echo of childhoods spent surviving rather than living.

Be careful judging someone struggling with addiction. They may recover—and one day, they may be the person who shows your child the way out.

When we look at someone struggling on the street or in the depths of addiction, we are seeing far more than what is visible in that moment. Behind addiction can be trauma, abuse, grief, fear, abandonment, and years of pain that were never properly understood or healed.

Far too many children exposed to domestic violence, child abuse, or parental conflict grow up carrying emotional wounds that were never theirs to bear. Some spend years trying to escape feelings they don’t yet have the words to understand. For some, substances become a way of temporarily quieting pain that feels unbearable.

But a person’s worst chapter does not have to be their final chapter.

Recovery changes perspective. Lived experience creates a kind of knowledge that cannot be taught from a textbook. Those who have walked through the darkness and found their way out can become some of the greatest teachers, advocates, and sources of hope for others.

At Ending Abuse Media, we believe we must look beyond the behaviour and ask what may be underneath it.

Instead of asking, “What is wrong with you?” we can begin by asking, “What happened to you?”

Compassion does not excuse harmful behaviour. It creates space for understanding, accountability, treatment, recovery, and hope.

And sometimes, the person we once judged may be the very person who helps another child—or another family—find their way to safety.

💜

09/24/2026

Male violence is not only a women’s issue. It is a human issue.

Men are responsible for the overwhelming majority of lethal violence against both women and men. If we want to prevent violence against women, we must be willing to examine not only the violence itself, but the beliefs, behaviours, and social norms that can allow it to develop.

It is part of a much larger culture of violence—one that harms women, children, families, and men themselves.

And if we genuinely want to prevent women from being murdered, abused, and terrorized, we have to be willing to talk honestly about where violence comes from, how it develops, how it is normalized, and how we stop it before it becomes lethal.

This conversation needs men at the table.

Not because gender inequality is irrelevant—but because meaningful change requires men to challenge the attitudes, behaviours, and systems that have historically enabled male dominance, entitlement, and violence against women.

Men are essential to that change.

Teach boys that strength is not domination.
Teach men that control is not love.
Teach that jealousy is not devotion.
Teach that rejection is not humiliation.
Teach that anger does not give anyone permission to hurt another person.

And when another man crosses that line—don’t look away.

Because male violence is killing women.

It is killing men.

It is destroying families.

And it is killing everyone.

We can do better.
But first, we have to be willing to see it.

Send me an angel.
Or better yet—send us a generation that knows how to love without violence.

— Ending Abuse Media 💜

07/01/2026

This Canada Day, Let’s Advocate for the Ultimate Freedom: Safety for Our Children. 🇨🇦

As we come together to celebrate our country, our communities, and the values of safety, peace, and justice that define what it means to be Canadian, we must also look closer at where our systems are failing our most vulnerable.

True freedom begins at home. Yet, across Canada, children are continually forced into unsafe environments under the guise of "shared parenting," even when domestic violence has been clearly documented.

At Ending Abuse Media, our message this July 1st is clear and uncompromising:

Let’s normalize removing parental rights from domestic violence offenders in the best interest of the child. Child safety is not negotiable.

For too long, family court systems have prioritized an abuser's "rights" over a child's right to live free from fear, coercion, and trauma. Coercive control and domestic abuse are entirely incompatible with safe parenting. When we allow offenders continued access to terrorize or control families through their children, we are failing the next generation of Canadians.

This Canada Day, let’s commit to building a nation where "peace, order, and good government" extends to every single household. Let’s stand up for a system that draws a hard line: if you choose to abuse, you forfeit the privilege of parenting.

Let’s protect Canadian children. First, always, and without exception.

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