Healing after abuse is not just about getting over the past—it’s about coming home to yourself and healing the relationship with yourself after abuse and learning the art of self-healing after abuse. It’s about rebuilding trust in your own voice,
And you know what? That’s perfectly okay. It’s okay to be angry and feel all the emotions that accompany the anger because you’ve spent so much of your life suppressing how you feel. You did this because you were more
“You need to smile more you’re a live you should be happy about that”. But what if I am not? What if I am not happy that I have to live with the fact that I had brain surgery and
Is the most condescending comment we get. Having an invisible illness comes with several invalidating comments and questions. Well why do you sleep so much? Why do you always tell us you are going to the doctor? Gosh you go
And that is something that I am working on every single day. I am the person who doesn’t want to fail. And I push myself past my limits because I know that I am only going to achieve my goals
That question comes up a lot. What is it like? What is it like to be in a relationship with someone or have a relationship with someone who’s only goal is to manipulate your reality and destroy you. I know
That I need to advocate for myself. That I need to fight. That I need to eat. And not only do I need to eat but I need to remind myself to eat 3 x a day. Those of you
I try my best to forget all of the things that I’ve been through in my past with my abuse and even thinking further on my medical condition and how growing up I was even subjected to abuse when it
It has been almost two years since I decided to leave you for my safety and for my mental health. And now more than ever, I think about you……often. But not like you think. You see, since I left you
On the inside looking, oh, where do I begin? I feel like I’ve lost all sense of who I am on the outside because it’s starting to match what I feel like on the inside. My insecurities are piling up.
I found you the day I finally decided to choose me. That is when I found you. I manifested every ounce of what you are deep within me. Every. Single. Day. I chose me. I chose me by deciding that
“Reaching the broken and battered hearts to remind them that they’re not alone, that it isn’t their fault, and that you are the light at the end of your dark tunnel”
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