SURVIVOR • ADVOCATE • TRUTH-TELLER
Hi I’m LaWanda
Bold Voice. Real Story. Powerful Healing.
Through unapologetic storytelling, fearless books, and a mission to expose silence, I help survivors and supporters face the truth and rise. My work is rooted in lived experience, community healing, and the belief that your voice can rewrite legacy.
Why People Connect with LaWanda's voice
Truth Without Shame LaWanda speaks the unspeakable.
Her lived experience gives her the power to say what others are too afraid to name — and help survivors feel seen.
Real, Raw, and Ready
From conference stages to community panels, LaWanda brings clarity, compassion, and conviction to every audience she meets.
Mission Over Metrics
With powerful books, online tools, and survivor-led programs, LaWanda isn’t just raising awareness, she’s restoring hope.
Books That Transform Lives
Each book is a step toward healing, understanding, and empowerment. Discover powerful stories and practical tools for your healing journey.
.38 Silencer – Unfired Guns Still Kill
.38 Silencer – Unfired Guns Still Kill tells the TRUE story of a little girl who was groomed, molested, and impregnated at the age of thirteen and then blamed for the abuse she suffered. Seven years later, the abuser became a permanent fixture within her family, and survival is paramount. The secret was locked away and carried for 38 years until she got triggered by the ONE THING that haunted her the most. That secret can no longer be contained, and the story must be told. The .38 handgun that was pointed toward her head may not have been fired, but it created gaping holes of trauma that silenced her for 38 years.
Silent Setups: Inside the Predator’s Playbook
This eye-opening book exposes how predators groom both children and communities to stay silent. Rooted in lived experience and truth-telling, Silent Setups helps readers recognize the warning signs, start hard conversations, and protect what matters most. It’s not about fear, it’s about awareness, empowerment, and breaking the cycle.
A Journal for the Silenced and Surviving
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This guided journal offers 55 compelling reasons why healing childhood trauma is not only valid but vital. Use the prompts that speak to your soul to reflect, release, and reclaim your voice. Whether you’re just beginning or deep in your journey, 55 Reasons to Heal is your invitation to write your way to freedom.
More Books Coming Soon
Stay tuned for additional titles in LaWanda’s powerful collection of advocacy and healing resources.
“.38 Silencer: Unfired Guns Still Kill” is the raw, riveting memoir by speaker, author, and CSA Survivor/Advocate LaWanda Harris , a woman whose voice now echoes on behalf of every child silenced by shame and secrecy.
In this unforgettable true story, LaWanda shares details of her childhood that was stolen by an extensive grooming process, which began at nine, molestation, and a terminated pregnancy by the abuser at 13. Not only was she violated, she was blamed. Seven years after the abuse she suffered was discovered, the Predator became a permanent member of her family circle through marriage.
“The .38 Caliber pistol held to her head never fired, but it
still tore a hole in her soul.”
The emotional devastation is palpable in this gut-wrenching, true story of a little girl who agreed to be silent just to remain a part of her family.
Now, LaWanda is using her pen to do what that gun couldn’t: break cycles, expose darkness, and spark healing. This memoir is more than a personal account, it’s a catalyst for every survivor ready to speak, heal, and reclaim their voice.
Meet LaWanda Will B LaWanda
LaWanda Will B LaWanda : An unflinching truth-teller, generational curse-breaker, and bold literary voice for those who were never given one.
Truth-Teller
Speaking Events
Curse-Breaker
Breaking generational cycles
Survivor Advocate
Empowering the voiceless
Movement Leader
Silence has had the mic long enough
As an author, speaker, and survivor-advocate, LaWanda writes with surgical precision, cutting through silence, shame, and stigma with every word.
“Her work centers on one unapologetic mission: to expose what others cover, confront what others deny, and empower survivors to rise from what tried to bury them.”
With a pen as powerful as her voice, LaWanda crafts books that go beyond storytelling; they are soul excavations, revealing the buried pain, silent screams, and generational patterns that keep communities bound.
Her breakout memoir, “.38 Silencer: Unfired Guns Still Kill,” is a piercing account of being groomed, molested, and impregnated at 13 by a family acquaintance who became a permanent fixture after the abuse was witnessed. This is a harrowing tale of secrets, manipulation, betrayal, and a gigantic cover-up that left a long trail of unspoken trauma. It is both an indictment of silence and a declaration of war against it.
LaWanda’s writing doesn’t just tell the truth, it heals, disrupts, and delivers. Her books are tools of transformation for readers ready to stop hiding and start healing.
Whether through memoirs, devotionals, or survivor-guided workshops, LaWanda calls people out of the shadows and into the power of their voice.
Ready to Start Your Healing Journey?
Recent Media Appearances
She is not just an author.
She is a movement.
Because silence has had the mic long enough.
LWBL Mission
Reveal the SECRETS. Deal with the DAMAGE. Heal GENERATIONS.
At the heart of LaWanda is a mission that refuses to stay silent. The LWBL Mission exists to disrupt the cone of silence surrounding childhood sexual abuse by equipping survivors, advocates, and allies to raise their voices, share their truths, and rewrite their futures.
