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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 to me is to stop punishing and sabotaging myself. To get to the point where I feel like I’m worthy of good things.
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Hope is a good thing I kept my faith and hoped for a change and it happened
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
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You deserve to be whole and feel safe in yourself. Even if it’s unbearable right now, I hope you stay with yourself on the way to freedom.
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Healing means to me, knowing it's okay to take care of yourself first and not feel bad about it. It is okay to get the right help and say, "no, I am not having a good day today". Giving yourself permission to feel, except and try again.
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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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I no longer feel alone after reading stories from others, it makes me feel that there are people out there who understand exactly what I went through, even if it is anonymous. I will be forever grateful - this has been part of my healing.
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Law & Order SVU has helped me with my healing process. I also dream of a Partnership with Joyful Heart Foundation and Mariska Hargitay on my project, Crafting For A Cause. It's about using art to spread joy, support, and awareness.
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When I was 11 yrs old i was raped by three boys. We had just moved to the place i live now. I never told anyone until i was in high school. I lived with guilt and self harm for yrs over the incident until in therapy i learned that it wasnotmy fault and those boys had no right to do that. I try and help people by sharing my story. We should speak out about it
Dear reader, this story contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
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Acceptance of personal space and keeping unlearning people away, as a means of not giving second or third chances cause change is internal and external and requires a managing.
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Healing for me means to let yourself feel all the emotions, feel all the pain all the way without fighting them - cry if you want to and no matter how many times.
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I would love to heal from the PTSD I suffer everyday. The flashbacks and feeling of reliving the sexual assault is overbearing majority of my days. I hide it well, but I feel defeated.
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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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Healing is to forget about this and move on since it’s going to give me a lot of mistrust on men
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Healing to me pinnacled once I climbed out of the hole I found myself in
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Healing is accepting the things you cannot change. And trusting that God has you no matter what.
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You are not alone do not hesitate to tell a friend or someone do not be afraid to reach out for help if you need it always remember that it will get better and you have many people who will help guide you and lift you up. Do not forget to put yourself first and do things for you that will better your environment and life.
Report
Healing is using my pain to help others. No matter how long it has been or what stage you are in, there is help out there. Resources and non-profits that care in a country that seems like it doesn't. Now more than ever we most reach out and support one another. "Turn your wounds into wisdom" is a tattoo I have to remind me of my post-traumatic growth.
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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.
You deserve to be whole and feel safe in yourself. Even if it’s unbearable right now, I hope you stay with yourself on the way to freedom.
Report
Healing means to me, knowing it's okay to take care of yourself first and not feel bad about it. It is okay to get the right help and say, "no, I am not having a good day today". Giving yourself permission to feel, except and try again.
Report
Law & Order SVU has helped me with my healing process. I also dream of a Partnership with Joyful Heart Foundation and Mariska Hargitay on my project, Crafting For A Cause. It's about using art to spread joy, support, and awareness.
Report
Acceptance of personal space and keeping unlearning people away, as a means of not giving second or third chances cause change is internal and external and requires a managing.
Report
Healing is to forget about this and move on since it’s going to give me a lot of mistrust on men
Report
Healing to me pinnacled once I climbed out of the hole I found myself in
Report
Healing is using my pain to help others. No matter how long it has been or what stage you are in, there is help out there. Resources and non-profits that care in a country that seems like it doesn't. Now more than ever we most reach out and support one another. "Turn your wounds into wisdom" is a tattoo I have to remind me of my post-traumatic growth.
Report
Hope is a good thing I kept my faith and hoped for a change and it happened
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
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
Healing to me is to stop punishing and sabotaging myself. To get to the point where I feel like I’m worthy of good things.
Report
to me, healing means understanding what happened. I don't need to know why he did it, but why me?
Report
I no longer feel alone after reading stories from others, it makes me feel that there are people out there who understand exactly what I went through, even if it is anonymous. I will be forever grateful - this has been part of my healing.
Report
When I was 11 yrs old i was raped by three boys. We had just moved to the place i live now. I never told anyone until i was in high school. I lived with guilt and self harm for yrs over the incident until in therapy i learned that it wasnotmy fault and those boys had no right to do that. I try and help people by sharing my story. We should speak out about it
Dear reader, this story contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
Report
Healing for me means to let yourself feel all the emotions, feel all the pain all the way without fighting them - cry if you want to and no matter how many times.
Report
I would love to heal from the PTSD I suffer everyday. The flashbacks and feeling of reliving the sexual assault is overbearing majority of my days. I hide it well, but I feel defeated.
Report
Healing is accepting the things you cannot change. And trusting that God has you no matter what.
Report
You are not alone do not hesitate to tell a friend or someone do not be afraid to reach out for help if you need it always remember that it will get better and you have many people who will help guide you and lift you up. Do not forget to put yourself first and do things for you that will better your environment and life.
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.