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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.
Leave at the sight of the first red flag. Be with someone who allows you to be feminine.
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You deserve love, kindness, honesty, and security. You really really do. There are good and loving people in the world. I am so grateful for my life now.
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Learn to forgive. Don’t carry the anger you had because it will break you. Part of that is also learning to like who you are. Easier said than done for sure, but worth the effort. Counseling was extremely helpful and I still use some of the skills my counselor taught me. You were victimized, it’s not your fault.
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. ⸻ Healing, to me, means learning to feel safe again—inside my own body, my own mind, and my children’s world. It’s rebuilding trust with myself, finding stability after chaos, and allowing joy without guilt. Healing isn’t forgetting what happened; it’s choosing to grow beyond it and creating a future where my children and I can live without fear, and with hope.
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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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It is okay to take time out to cry, in the shower. It is okay to pray, when no one is looking. It is okay to smile, when someone gives you a compliment. It is okay to look in the mirror and say, I'm beautiful. It is okay to leave when you have said, enough is enough.
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A couple years ago I sent a letter each to my then boyfriend and the guy. I felt better.
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Therapy. Drawing boundaries. Reading up on abuse and identify things I can and cannot control. Going for the right relationships.
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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 takes trial and error, there are ups, downs and setbacks in the process... a process that hasn't been written by anyone else...one that you're walking for the first time. It requires vulnerability, asking for help and looking for strength in the most unexpected places of your soul, as well as in the eyes of those who you love and trust the most.
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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, means learning to feel safe again—inside my own body, my own mind, and my children’s world. It’s rebuilding trust with myself, finding stability after chaos, and allowing joy without guilt. Healing isn’t forgetting what happened; it’s choosing to grow beyond it and creating a future where my children and I can live without fear, and with hope.
Report
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
Healing takes trial and error, there are ups, downs and setbacks in the process... a process that hasn't been written by anyone else...one that you're walking for the first time. It requires vulnerability, asking for help and looking for strength in the most unexpected places of your soul, as well as in the eyes of those who you love and trust the most.
Report
Learn to forgive. Don’t carry the anger you had because it will break you. Part of that is also learning to like who you are. Easier said than done for sure, but worth the effort. Counseling was extremely helpful and I still use some of the skills my counselor taught me. You were victimized, it’s not your fault.
Report
Therapy. Drawing boundaries. Reading up on abuse and identify things I can and cannot control. Going for the right relationships.
Report
Leave at the sight of the first red flag. Be with someone who allows you to be feminine.
Report
You deserve love, kindness, honesty, and security. You really really do. There are good and loving people in the world. I am so grateful for my life now.
Report
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
It is okay to take time out to cry, in the shower. It is okay to pray, when no one is looking. It is okay to smile, when someone gives you a compliment. It is okay to look in the mirror and say, I'm beautiful. It is okay to leave when you have said, enough is enough.
Report
A couple years ago I sent a letter each to my then boyfriend and the guy. I felt better.
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.