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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 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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IT WAS NEVER YOUR FAULT. Even though healing can feel so much harder… IT'S SO WORTH IT. I would 100% choose to spend my life with PTSD than to not have left.
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Healing means realizing that feeling like you are lying when you are not is normal and your brain looking for control. Protecting someone doesn’t make you a liar and trying to love someone who but you doesn’t mean you are weak.
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Never give up, fight, hold those accountable, learn and learn some more rest repeat.
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Healing to me, is watching my daughter grow up and not witness what would have happened to my life (and hers) had I stayed. Knowing that her childhood wasn’t ruined because of me. Healing is slowly putting back the pieces of myself that have been broken for so long. Long before she was born.
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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 believe our stories can change the world. And my experience of domestic violence is not unique. My story is many women’s stories, and many women can’t speak their stories. By sharing mine, I hope to inspire more women to come forward and share theirs. So, I’m calling on all survivors to come together and unite. It’s time to speak up.
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I haven't healed yet, as the police who killed my mother harass us and the school allows my daughter to be bullied because she's not white and her mom is me. I refuse to kill myself even though I'm almost jealous of my mother, my children watched me brought to my knees after the moral injury hurt so much more than the black eyes and the aching thighs, my children will watch me heal one day, if only someone could tell me.
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
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I have to be hopeful that one day it will all be over. But I need to act.
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this isn’t the end. fight for yourself. don’t let them win. i believe you. and one day you will be okay
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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.
IT WAS NEVER YOUR FAULT. Even though healing can feel so much harder… IT'S SO WORTH IT. I would 100% choose to spend my life with PTSD than to not have left.
Report
Healing to me, is watching my daughter grow up and not witness what would have happened to my life (and hers) had I stayed. Knowing that her childhood wasn’t ruined because of me. Healing is slowly putting back the pieces of myself that have been broken for so long. Long before she was born.
Report
I believe our stories can change the world. And my experience of domestic violence is not unique. My story is many women’s stories, and many women can’t speak their stories. By sharing mine, I hope to inspire more women to come forward and share theirs. So, I’m calling on all survivors to come together and unite. It’s time to speak up.
Report
I haven't healed yet, as the police who killed my mother harass us and the school allows my daughter to be bullied because she's not white and her mom is me. I refuse to kill myself even though I'm almost jealous of my mother, my children watched me brought to my knees after the moral injury hurt so much more than the black eyes and the aching thighs, my children will watch me heal one day, if only someone could tell me.
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
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 means realizing that feeling like you are lying when you are not is normal and your brain looking for control. Protecting someone doesn’t make you a liar and trying to love someone who but you doesn’t mean you are weak.
Report
Never give up, fight, hold those accountable, learn and learn some more rest repeat.
Report
Don't give up. Please get out of the situation and please know that YOU ARE NOT ALONE
Report
I have to be hopeful that one day it will all be over. But I need to act.
Report
this isn’t the end. fight for yourself. don’t let them win. i believe you. and one day you will be okay
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.