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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.
I found someone amazing. In places I didn’t expect. I found my peace. Chase your peace.
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Healing isn't always linear, there are ups and downs to every healing process. Just remind yourself that you didn't ask for that and it wasn't your fault.
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I hope other survivors will do the things that make them happy. Leave situations that no longer serve you. Be kind to yourself. You deserve love.
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
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Three beautiful kids later, three houses later, and 10 years later, I finally had the courage to leave.
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For me, healing would mean being able to live a small, careful, quiet life. To feel safety. To be free.
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IT WAS NEVER YOUR FAULT. Even though healing can feel so much harder… IT'S SO WORTH IT. I would 100% choose to spend my life with PTSD than to not have left.
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I hope that sharing my story will help others to realize we all have broken places, but we are not broken. Since that day in 2007, I became the CEO of my own company, ideated patents and healed.
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I found hope in reading, as cliche as it sounds, I’ve been reading the Bible, other romance novels, and a great book called “raising emotionally healthy boys.”
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Keep hope alive inside your heart like the fluttering of a dove, that you know you have always been worth cherishing, that love which does not hurt you is waiting. Hope above all things. Hope always.
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to me, healing means understanding what happened. I don't need to know why he did it, but why me?
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Healing means to me, accepting the good, the bad, and the ugly. With time and self expression, the confidence grows. One can discover that they are not the victim their abuser made them out to be. There is so much more complexity to the human psyche and the possibilities are within reach.
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healing means being free...leaving him could make me free...everyday I close my eyes and think that if I could just vanish from the face of the earth.
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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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What does healing mean to me? Remembering my own self worth. Knowing that I finally had the strength to walk away. There is no "sin" in wanting to love or wanting to BE loved. The sickness and the abuse is on the abuser - not on me.
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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.
I hope other survivors will do the things that make them happy. Leave situations that no longer serve you. Be kind to yourself. You deserve love.
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
Report
I hope that sharing my story will help others to realize we all have broken places, but we are not broken. Since that day in 2007, I became the CEO of my own company, ideated patents and healed.
Report
Keep hope alive inside your heart like the fluttering of a dove, that you know you have always been worth cherishing, that love which does not hurt you is waiting. Hope above all things. Hope always.
Report
to me, healing means understanding what happened. I don't need to know why he did it, but why me?
Report
What does healing mean to me? Remembering my own self worth. Knowing that I finally had the strength to walk away. There is no "sin" in wanting to love or wanting to BE loved. The sickness and the abuse is on the abuser - not on me.
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
Healing isn't always linear, there are ups and downs to every healing process. Just remind yourself that you didn't ask for that and it wasn't your fault.
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
I found someone amazing. In places I didn’t expect. I found my peace. Chase your peace.
Report
Three beautiful kids later, three houses later, and 10 years later, I finally had the courage to leave.
Report
For me, healing would mean being able to live a small, careful, quiet life. To feel safety. To be free.
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
Report
IT WAS NEVER YOUR FAULT. Even though healing can feel so much harder… IT'S SO WORTH IT. I would 100% choose to spend my life with PTSD than to not have left.
Report
I found hope in reading, as cliche as it sounds, I’ve been reading the Bible, other romance novels, and a great book called “raising emotionally healthy boys.”
Report
Healing means to me, accepting the good, the bad, and the ugly. With time and self expression, the confidence grows. One can discover that they are not the victim their abuser made them out to be. There is so much more complexity to the human psyche and the possibilities are within reach.
Report
healing means being free...leaving him could make me free...everyday I close my eyes and think that if I could just vanish from the face of the earth.
Report
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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.