Hey! Derek here…. What lights me up with passion is watching God do life transformation. And I don’t mean in “other people”, but in me. So much of my own continual recovery journey has been weaved through starting Choose RCVRY. Some view the God of Christianity as distant or boring and dull or old and outdated, but my experience with the God I know and love is quite the opposite.

Collaboration & Redemption

Only God could reach down and bring recovery in ways I didn’t even know I needed. Overcoming my porn and internal sexual addiction physically was one part, but oh how He’s used collaboration within this brand and the recovery community as a whole to take me deeper back through my entire story so internal healing could begin as well.

Somewhere along the early days of this apparel brand, I met Britney Baier—this fierce and joyful woman redeemed from all kinds of addiction but also from the web of human trafficking. For me personally, getting to know her family and hearing her story of recovery hit me hard and how the type of sexual addiction I had in my story actually fed the demand to victimize real people like her.

More Than a Brand

Along the way, we’ve been blessed to bring more people in, current friends and other friendships forming… and sooo look forward to more people collaborating and helping this brand grow in the future as well. This is truly at its core more than a brand, it’s a deep seated pain turned to passion that fuels more life transformation.

That friendship formed an ongoing collaboration with photoshoots, social media / podcast episodes, and most recently a design raising awareness for human trafficking. The hat or one of the hoodies sparks conversation on what the design means. I’ve been able to talk about raising awareness for trafficking and how things like pornography from my own story feeds the entire “adult industry” that is causing so much damage.

To make it vividly clear on what we mean by awareness against trafficking, we put the following manifesto on the back of each hoodie design.

We represent a freedom movement against human trafficking.

Choose to step out, speak hope.

Rise above the ashes of shame.

Together we are the Strong.

We are the Storm.

Start the conversation.

Spreading & Funding Hope Together

These designs raise awareness and create talking points as you wear them, but they also help FUND hope as we give portions of the sales back to ministries fighting sex trafficking. They might be priced slightly higher than some of our other designs, but this is why… so we can make a bigger impact together!

If you or anyone you know is struggling with forced or threatened sex acts, reach out at the 24/7 hotline below.

1 (888) 373-7888

National Human Trafficking Hotline

SMS: 233733 (Text "HELP" or "INFO")



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