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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.
Self-forgiveness for letting things get this far and self-forgiveness for the decisions I’ve made that are now having an impact on me and everyone around me.
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Hope is keeping the faith for a better day, knowing the advocates will help you every step of your Freedom Journey.
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i could feel okay again i left wheeling am stuck in Place if i felt my life was going in a good direction i went back to church connected with friends from church they tell me put god first but it does not help me they do not understand then i am supposed to be grateful for a lousy apartment lousy place to live a bleak future.
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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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I hope you put yourself first. I hope you love yourself first. I hope you look at yourself and say I’m good enough. I hope you have the best support system to help you because you can’t do this on your own. You are not alone. You are somebody that’s worth loving.
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Healing means understanding, closure, realizing u didn't deserve it. Being ok again.
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Healing is being with my daughters. It’s sitting on the couch, watching a movie next to them. It’s hugging them twenty times a day just because I can. That is my healing, and right now it’s also my mission — a full-blown mission to get back to that place of love, safety, and normalcy with them.
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Healing for me, means finding the real me again. It’s pushing through traumatic experiences and coming out from them better. It’s living a life, I never dreamed of being in the abusive relationship. It’s about loving myself again.
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Every day is a new day, and a new chance to make yourself better.
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Don’t give up! Find what helps you to feel free. Whether it be writing, art, long walks in nature, a war room. Whatever the outlet, you are not the victim your abuser molded you to be. You are so much more! Through time you can discover who you are.
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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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Healing is accepting the things you cannot change. And trusting that God has you no matter what.
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Healing takes time. It doesn’t take a day, a week, or a month. It takes years and years to heal after being treated like shit.
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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 could feel okay again i left wheeling am stuck in Place if i felt my life was going in a good direction i went back to church connected with friends from church they tell me put god first but it does not help me they do not understand then i am supposed to be grateful for a lousy apartment lousy place to live a bleak future.
Report
Every day is a new day, and a new chance to make yourself better.
Report
Don’t give up! Find what helps you to feel free. Whether it be writing, art, long walks in nature, a war room. Whatever the outlet, you are not the victim your abuser molded you to be. You are so much more! Through time you can discover who you are.
Report
Healing takes time. It doesn’t take a day, a week, or a month. It takes years and years to heal after being treated like shit.
Report
Hope is keeping the faith for a better day, knowing the advocates will help you every step of your Freedom Journey.
Report
I hope you put yourself first. I hope you love yourself first. I hope you look at yourself and say I’m good enough. I hope you have the best support system to help you because you can’t do this on your own. You are not alone. You are somebody that’s worth loving.
Report
Healing for me, means finding the real me again. It’s pushing through traumatic experiences and coming out from them better. It’s living a life, I never dreamed of being in the abusive relationship. It’s about loving myself again.
Report
Self-forgiveness for letting things get this far and self-forgiveness for the decisions I’ve made that are now having an impact on me and everyone around me.
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 means understanding, closure, realizing u didn't deserve it. Being ok again.
Report
Healing is being with my daughters. It’s sitting on the couch, watching a movie next to them. It’s hugging them twenty times a day just because I can. That is my healing, and right now it’s also my mission — a full-blown mission to get back to that place of love, safety, and normalcy with them.
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
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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.