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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.
Dont give up. Even a life of suffering is better than no life at all.
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Help is everywhere don't try to be scared to look for help to somebody you know you could give trust to.
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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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“Every victim should have the opportunity to become a survivor,”
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Life gets better. Keep holding up. I know it can seem impossible. It can seem like all odds are stacked against you. But we are the true heroes and underdogs in our stories. We will always come out on top. There are resources and people out there that can and will help you. You got this!
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for me healing means taking the strength i’ve built up inside me to keep going and use it in a positive way, not running away from what happened to me but using it to fuel my life source. right now that seems difficult but it’s definitely what I want from healing.
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If you’re another survivor look at yourself in the mirror and admire your strength for you have made it this far in a world that has been cruel to you. You deserve to be safe, you deserve to be happy, you deserve to be loved by yourself and by others and you’re worthy of happiness. You are worthy of everything good and positive.
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I was 42 when I was able to safely escape from my abusive husband. It's never too late to begin again. You're not too old. Freedom from violence is a basic human right. I hope my story will show victims and survivors of every generation that the abuse was never their fault.
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Waking up and going to sleep knowing I am safe and at peace in my own home.
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Healing doesn’t mean forgetting, it means accepting and moving forward. For now I can’t accept, but I hope if I manage to get therapy, I will.
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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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My message about hope is to trust the process. Your good days are just as important as your bad days. I hope that you know just how amazing your are & hope important you are to this world! And you know that it wasn’t your fault
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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.
Life gets better. Keep holding up. I know it can seem impossible. It can seem like all odds are stacked against you. But we are the true heroes and underdogs in our stories. We will always come out on top. There are resources and people out there that can and will help you. You got this!
Report
I was 42 when I was able to safely escape from my abusive husband. It's never too late to begin again. You're not too old. Freedom from violence is a basic human right. I hope my story will show victims and survivors of every generation that the abuse was never their fault.
Report
Waking up and going to sleep knowing I am safe and at peace in my own home.
Report
“Every victim should have the opportunity to become a survivor,”
Report
If you’re another survivor look at yourself in the mirror and admire your strength for you have made it this far in a world that has been cruel to you. You deserve to be safe, you deserve to be happy, you deserve to be loved by yourself and by others and you’re worthy of happiness. You are worthy of everything good and positive.
Report
My message about hope is to trust the process. Your good days are just as important as your bad days. I hope that you know just how amazing your are & hope important you are to this world! And you know that it wasn’t your fault
Report
Dont give up. Even a life of suffering is better than no life at all.
Report
Help is everywhere don't try to be scared to look for help to somebody you know you could give trust to.
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
for me healing means taking the strength i’ve built up inside me to keep going and use it in a positive way, not running away from what happened to me but using it to fuel my life source. right now that seems difficult but it’s definitely what I want from healing.
Report
Healing doesn’t mean forgetting, it means accepting and moving forward. For now I can’t accept, but I hope if I manage to get therapy, I will.
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.