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I learned the hard way, but I survived! I’ll be smarter and stronger going forward!

I can say that it does get better as time goes on. You learn to live with what happened it’s something that takes time. Don’t rush yourself everyone’s healing journey is different but having support and the right people in your inner circle helps. Also talking about it when you are ready can help get it out so that you’re not holding it in and not processing it. And some days will be better than others but even the bad days are progress. Don’t tear yourself down or blame yourself! You are stronger than you know! You are powerful! A SURVIVOR, T...

In the Shadows: A Story of Survival and Healing

For years, I lived through something no one should ever have to go through. It started when I was young, and the person who hurt me was someone I was supposed to trust, my stepfather. He was supposed to protect me, but instead, he took advantage of me in the worst way.

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Healing is hard. Realization is harder. Realizing that the man I thought loved and cared for me was a delusion. Realizing that I held onto the good times to ignore the worst times. Realizing that I changed who I was in order to keep the facade of who he could be. It hurts. But I am alive. I am here to pick up the pieces that he shattered.

Its a long road and story but you can make it.

Healing is knowing and loving yourself despite what you may internally hear. Its setting boundaries and listening to them. Its feeling your gut and following it.

“I really hope sharing my story will help others in one way or another and I can certainly say that it will help me be more open with my story.”

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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.

A SURVIVING VICTIM’S STORY - Name

A SURVIVING VICTIM’S STORY - Name
I was four years old when upon hearing my parents’ raised voices, I peered around our living room corner, a silent spectator to my dad’s hand connecting with my mom’s face, propelling her into the air and onto our Danish Modern coffee table. Upon impact, the table and my petite mother broke into pieces. That night, my fix-it father repaired the table. I didn’t know it then, but my mother was forever broken. Although my older brother didn’t witness this one-sided match-up, he certainly heard them arguing,...

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You may feel like no one understands, especially if your abuser hides behind the mask of being the "nice guy." But please know this—you are not alone. You are enough, and you deserve so much more than the pain and doubt you’ve been carrying.
For me, it started with a single phrase from a friend: "You look like you’re walking on eggshells." That one sentence led me to a Google search that changed everything I thought I knew about my life. It opened my eyes to the truth I had been avoiding and set me on a path to healing.

Hope, passion, and PURPOSE restored

I never thought one could be truly free of addiction, emotional torment, and past trauma. It starts with the willingness to take small risks. Opening up to a friend. Attending a support group. Finding a counselor. Writing in a journal. Self-care. Simply getting out of bed in the morning.

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Just know that there are people out there who are there for you even thru the darkest days and also the positive thing I was say is you are good enough and you got this and keep moving forward

We believe in you. You are strong.

#1323

Healing is saying the secrets that you hid from the rest the world so you could get up, put up, and never give up.
Healing is not lying to yourself anymore by saying, "Everything is fine."
Healing is giving yourself the time to process the myriad of emotions that came flooding in when you finally left your abuser.

#1316

I am writing this a mother of a survivor. My daughter was abused by her paternal grandfather from the age of 5 to 6 years of age. Her father discovered the abuse, as we were in the process of divorce at the time. I learned of it through a DFS investigator who told me over the phone what was happening with my child. I was devastated. Her abuser was arrested and after a short period of investigation, we went to trial. His attorney wanted him to receive just 5 years of probation and no registry. We fought against it as they had also found child p...

Dear reader, the following story contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.

I love myself more, but I want a safe and calm outing

I am trying to leave this DV relationship, but it's complicated. He lives with me; he uses my phone and car because he doesn't have neither. I don't want to get the police involved nor do I want to kick him out, 1. he will just be outside my apartment unit and 2. defamation of my character - for some reason everyone believes him and don't see any wrong by him but he sure can make someone look terrible.

I love myself more, but I want a safe and calm outing

I am trying to leave this DV relationship, but it's complicated. He lives with me; he uses my phone and car because he doesn't have neither. I don't want to get the police involved nor do I want to kick him out, 1. he will just be outside my apartment unit and 2. defamation of my character - for some reason everyone believes him and don't see any wrong by him but he sure can make someone look terrible.

No Longer Broken

You are loved and you are needed. You deserve love that doesn’t hurt.

“Healing to me means that all these things that happened don’t have to define me.”

survivor of sex abuse in 1975 / rape survivor of 1989

go for help tell someone, talk to your teacher, tell your parents or a trusted friend. if it is someone in your family doing this to you, go to a trusted friend, have them take you to the hospital and get a rape kit done. i wish I had then my rapists would be in prison today. don't take the law into your own hands let the police handle it for you and you just work on getting yourself better. and one other thing do not think about committing suicide because once you do that deed you don't get a comeback to life card. once you're dead, you're de...

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Don't give up. Please get out of the situation and please know that YOU ARE NOT ALONE

Evil lives here……

Whatever it is your facing you are not alone there is millions of us so have hope that it will one day get better

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Love doesn't hurt. It' not love if it does.

Healing from physical, mental and financial abuse; the best part of your story is yet to come!

Healing is taking control of the part of your story that you previously thought you had little control over. The beginning of middle of your story isn’t the finished product!

Every step forward, no matter how small, is still a step forwards. Take all the time you need taking those steps.

Why I didn't Share

My Path from Pain to Purpose - name

To my fellow survivor,
I want you to know that your silence doesn’t have to define your story any longer. For so long, I, too, carried the weight of secrets and pain, believing that silence would protect me from the shame, the memories, and the fear. But here’s what I’ve learned: silence only allows the wounds to deepen. Speaking up—sharing your truth—is the first step toward healing.

Yes, like my poem Poem Title by Name

We made it! we are on the other side of this now. No longer victims and living a different life now. May you have peace and freedom and go out there and challenge yourself, no one can hold you back now. We have made it we are never ever going to be who we were before the abuse, but today today we know who we are, what we absolutely will not tolerate and what we want for our lives and if you have just started on the journey know that it is long and one and don't ever blame yourself for the abuse. Celebrate You in every way!

Name's Story

Healing is knowing that you are worthy, lovable, forgivable, valuable, smart, capable, funny, wanted, needed, strong, & so much more. It’s knowing that all the messes are now testimonies. It’s knowing you survived everything that tried to break you. It’s knowing that you should never give up. Always let your light shine and be yourself. Your people are going to love you for you so you don’t have to change anything about yourself.

Dear reader, the following story contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.

#1199

“Healing means forgiving myself for all the things I may have gotten wrong in the moment.”

The Mother's Poem

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Loving yourself will come, and when it does, it will open doors you didn't even know were there.

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I will get there, I’m just not there yet

Waking up and going to sleep knowing I am safe and at peace in my own home.

A Survivor Not a Victim 💕✨

Hope is the silver of light left when you are surrounded by darkness. It is love in its greatest form 💕

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I’m sorry, but I’m no longer here for you; I’m here for myself.

We believe in hope.
To every survivor reading this, I want you to know that there is light beyond the darkness. Your strength may feel fragile right now, but it is there, waiting to guide you through. The pain you’re experiencing is real, but it does not define you. You are more than the sum of your struggles.

“Healing is different for everyone, but for me it is listening to myself...I make sure to take some time out of each week to put me first and practice self-care.”

Uk bad boys a bunch of criminals that are causing harm to my friends health .

Keep fighting and keep Goign don’t let theme silence you ok .

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