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This is a space where survivors of trauma and abuse share their stories alongside supportive allies. These stories remind us that hope exists even in dark times. You are never alone in your experience. Healing is possible for everyone.
Healing is learning to be compassionate toward yourself, believing in yourself, and forgiving yourself.
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Healing is using my position to share my story with current college students, using my position to listen to college students, and using my position to educate college students.
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Healing means to better myself, and not allow anyone to take advantage. Do change yourself for others. Change for you. Not for others. Surround yourself with those who care about you and your well-being. Healing helps you realize your worth and what you deserve.
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Hope will kill you, hope is a cruel lie they give to people when the truth is to unmarriable.
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
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I thought he was my freind until I told him about my sa and he made”jokes about it” eventually put his hands on me and drug me out my dorm room
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I believe our stories can change the world. And my experience of domestic violence is not unique. My story is many women’s stories, and many women can’t speak their stories. By sharing mine, I hope to inspire more women to come forward and share theirs. So, I’m calling on all survivors to come together and unite. It’s time to speak up.
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Don't give up and keep pushing forward. It might feel like there is no hope but I promise there are blue skies and green grass on the other side of the hill.
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Ladies/Gents, Getting out is THE HARDEST DECISION you'll ever make and it's the scariest thing I've ever done. I hope that everyone can get out safely, rebuild, refocus and heal.
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I believe that with everyday I would soon be able to fully over come and this would be a mere memory
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Healing is hard. Realization is harder. Realizing that the man I thought loved and cared for me was a delusion. Realizing that I held onto the good times to ignore the worst times. Realizing that I changed who I was in order to keep the facade of who he could be. It hurts. But I am alive. I am here to pick up the pieces that he shattered.
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This is a space where survivors of trauma and abuse share their stories alongside supportive allies. These stories remind us that hope exists even in dark times. You are never alone in your experience. Healing is possible for everyone.
Healing is learning to be compassionate toward yourself, believing in yourself, and forgiving yourself.
Report
Healing is using my position to share my story with current college students, using my position to listen to college students, and using my position to educate college students.
Report
I thought he was my freind until I told him about my sa and he made”jokes about it” eventually put his hands on me and drug me out my dorm room
Report
Ladies/Gents, Getting out is THE HARDEST DECISION you'll ever make and it's the scariest thing I've ever done. I hope that everyone can get out safely, rebuild, refocus and heal.
Report
Healing is hard. Realization is harder. Realizing that the man I thought loved and cared for me was a delusion. Realizing that I held onto the good times to ignore the worst times. Realizing that I changed who I was in order to keep the facade of who he could be. It hurts. But I am alive. I am here to pick up the pieces that he shattered.
Report
Hope will kill you, hope is a cruel lie they give to people when the truth is to unmarriable.
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
Report
Healing means to better myself, and not allow anyone to take advantage. Do change yourself for others. Change for you. Not for others. Surround yourself with those who care about you and your well-being. Healing helps you realize your worth and what you deserve.
Report
I believe our stories can change the world. And my experience of domestic violence is not unique. My story is many women’s stories, and many women can’t speak their stories. By sharing mine, I hope to inspire more women to come forward and share theirs. So, I’m calling on all survivors to come together and unite. It’s time to speak up.
Report
Don't give up and keep pushing forward. It might feel like there is no hope but I promise there are blue skies and green grass on the other side of the hill.
Report
I believe that with everyday I would soon be able to fully over come and this would be a mere memory
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Grounding activity
Find a comfortable place to sit. Gently close your eyes and take a couple of deep breaths - in through your nose (count to 3), out through your mouth (count of 3). Now open your eyes and look around you. Name the following out loud:
5 – things you can see (you can look within the room and out of the window)
4 – things you can feel (what is in front of you that you can touch?)
3 – things you can hear
2 – things you can smell
1 – thing you like about yourself.
Take a deep breath to end.
From where you are sitting, look around for things that have a texture or are nice or interesting to look at.
Hold an object in your hand and bring your full focus to it. Look at where shadows fall on parts of it or maybe where there are shapes that form within the object. Feel how heavy or light it is in your hand and what the surface texture feels like under your fingers (This can also be done with a pet if you have one).
Take a deep breath to end.
Ask yourself the following questions and answer them out loud:
1. Where am I?
2. What day of the week is today?
3. What is today’s date?
4. What is the current month?
5. What is the current year?
6. How old am I?
7. What season is it?
Take a deep breath to end.
Put your right hand palm down on your left shoulder. Put your left hand palm down on your right shoulder. Choose a sentence that will strengthen you. For example: “I am powerful.” Say the sentence out loud first and pat your right hand on your left shoulder, then your left hand on your right shoulder.
Alternate the patting. Do ten pats altogether, five on each side, each time repeating your sentences aloud.
Take a deep breath to end.
Cross your arms in front of you and draw them towards your chest. With your right hand, hold your left upper arm. With your left hand, hold your right upper arm. Squeeze gently, and pull your arms inwards. Hold the squeeze for a little while, finding the right amount of squeeze for you in this moment. Hold the tension and release. Then squeeze for a little while again and release. Stay like that for a moment.
Take a deep breath to end.