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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 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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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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Hope comes from late Old English hopa "confidence in the future,". I would reframe that to having confidence in yourself. HOPE can be dangerous and you can hope for change, hope for better but YOU ARE ENOUGH as you are and if you are hoping for better then believe you can do it. Be kind to yourself and put one foot in-front of the other.
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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 love you all out there! You are not alone! You are strong! The abuse is not your fault!
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Healing is to forgive yourself. Healing is to realize, that the abuse wasn‘t your fault at all. You are wonderful and nobody is allowed to treat you like shit.
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To any survivors, I believe you. I see you. I hear you. I stand with you. You are strong. You are not dirty. It was not your fault. You are not alone.
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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 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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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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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.
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We can all have hope, because if you’re lucky enough to get away from your abuser you have already survived something. This keeps me going, this, and my child, because we’re still experiencing post separation abuse. Never give up, because I promise you someone else understands exactly what you’re going through.
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Healing to me is sharing my story, helping others, protecting my children and moving on in peace.
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Not keeping quiet about the abuse I endured helps me heal. It's comforting to me to remember the idiom, "If people want you to write better about them, they should have behaved better". The people abused me deserve to hear every scathing word from me about what they did to me.
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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.
Don't give up. Please get out of the situation and please know that YOU ARE NOT ALONE
Report
I love you all out there! You are not alone! You are strong! The abuse is 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
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
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
Not keeping quiet about the abuse I endured helps me heal. It's comforting to me to remember the idiom, "If people want you to write better about them, they should have behaved better". The people abused me deserve to hear every scathing word from me about what they did to me.
Report
Hope comes from late Old English hopa "confidence in the future,". I would reframe that to having confidence in yourself. HOPE can be dangerous and you can hope for change, hope for better but YOU ARE ENOUGH as you are and if you are hoping for better then believe you can do it. Be kind to yourself and put one foot in-front of the other.
Report
To any survivors, I believe you. I see you. I hear you. I stand with you. You are strong. You are not dirty. It was not your fault. You are not alone.
Report
Healing to me is sharing my story, helping others, protecting my children and moving on in peace.
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
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
Healing is to forgive yourself. Healing is to realize, that the abuse wasn‘t your fault at all. You are wonderful and nobody is allowed to treat you like shit.
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
We can all have hope, because if you’re lucky enough to get away from your abuser you have already survived something. This keeps me going, this, and my child, because we’re still experiencing post separation abuse. Never give up, because I promise you someone else understands exactly what you’re going through.
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.