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,
“You’re never going to be anything other than a slut or a whore” “You are fat and stupid” “You are ugly” “You are a little bitch and you are never going to be good for anything more than laying on
This selfie was taken October 18, 2015… And many people know that I have suffered with some pretty annoying health issues, but not many know that my hair was my BIGGEST insecurity. Growing up I hated it. At first it
I used to feel breathless Butterflies in my stomach Helplessly and irrevocably in love Until loving words one day turned in to hatred words Words that were used to make me feel worthless Words that were said that made me
0400 am, August 9, 2014. I am driving down the road in Charlotte, North Carolina. And that’s what I told myself. I told myself repeatedly, I am never going to get through this. How am I ever going to get
August 8, 2014 I promised to share about this day, so I am. Right now. It seems as good as any moment since today (October 14) two years ago I had to get plastic surgery on my nose in result
How do I make it stop? This internal monologue that goes on inside of you? How do you stop it from making you feel like you’re never going to get through it? I live with this constant fear inside of
📸 Breez Sapphira @brzsapphira 🖤 All is fair in love and PTSD… So, I have love.. and I also have PTSD. And sometimes those two things just simply do not mix. I was in an abusive relationship for two years.
Pain came from this.. it came from all of this…. and maybe this is why sometimes victims don’t speak… *before I proceed, this is in no way, shape or form me saying that we shouldn’t speak up, because we should…
I wish that I could say that this is easy. Because it is not. I work hard at this every single day of my life to the point that it is exhausting. But, I truly want to be on the
… I’ll never forget. Sometimes it’s engraved in me. Some days I can see it, like rewatching a movie for the 90th time. I’ll never forget. There were times when I would cry so hard I would throw up. I
“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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