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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.
To other survivors, I say YOU ARE NOT ALONE. You cannot change what happened to you, but you can choose what to do with what happened to you. Your voice needs to be heard!
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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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You deserve so much better & I hope you heal and get everything you want out of your life. 🫶
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Dont give up. Even a life of suffering is better than no life at all.
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Happiness is you and your decision to be happy. I like this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson "Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams."
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Healing to me would to wake up and not feel so angry at the world for what happened to me. To not feel like I have to carry this pain, I want to let go and make space for me & the truth of the beauty I carry in my heart.
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I finally divorced my abuser after 45 years. It is not easy but it is better. Of course no relationship is 100% awful 100% of the time. That’s what helped keep me in it. But, I now know that I deserve more than the crumbs I got in my abusive marriage.
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Don't give up. Please get out of the situation and please know that YOU ARE NOT ALONE
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I want to share my story with others in a domestic abuse situation. I wish to prevent 'family enilators' or abusers from harming another woman or child unnessecarily. I want to encourage positive outcomes despite encounters with yucky people.
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Healing means forgiving the person you were before you knew what you know now.
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Give yourself grace and be patient with the process. There isn't a deadline on healing. To be honest, you may never get over the pain and trauma, but each day you choose to fight and live is another day you get to celebrate.
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Healing doesn’t mean forgetting, it means accepting and moving forward. For now I can’t accept, but I hope if I manage to get therapy, I will.
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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.
Dont give up. Even a life of suffering is better than no life at all.
Report
Don't give up. Please get out of the situation and please know that YOU ARE NOT ALONE
Report
Healing doesn’t mean forgetting, it means accepting and moving forward. For now I can’t accept, but I hope if I manage to get therapy, I will.
Report
You deserve so much better & I hope you heal and get everything you want out of your life. 🫶
Report
I finally divorced my abuser after 45 years. It is not easy but it is better. Of course no relationship is 100% awful 100% of the time. That’s what helped keep me in it. But, I now know that I deserve more than the crumbs I got in my abusive marriage.
Report
I want to share my story with others in a domestic abuse situation. I wish to prevent 'family enilators' or abusers from harming another woman or child unnessecarily. I want to encourage positive outcomes despite encounters with yucky people.
Report
To other survivors, I say YOU ARE NOT ALONE. You cannot change what happened to you, but you can choose what to do with what happened to you. Your voice needs to be heard!
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
Happiness is you and your decision to be happy. I like this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson "Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams."
Report
Healing to me would to wake up and not feel so angry at the world for what happened to me. To not feel like I have to carry this pain, I want to let go and make space for me & the truth of the beauty I carry in my heart.
Report
Healing means forgiving the person you were before you knew what you know now.
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.