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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.
If we could go back in time, we would do a lot of things differently. But we can't.
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Healing means everything to me- And honestly you are healing every single day!! every single day!! little by little.
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You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward. It's okay to not be okay - things will get better.
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Self-forgiveness for letting things get this far and self-forgiveness for the decisions I’ve made that are now having an impact on me and everyone around me.
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Healing is acceptance, healing is patience with yourself, healing is self compassion.
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
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Move your bodies in ways that feel good to you as much as you can. It helps us release
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Deuteronomy 26:9 says "then, he brought us to this place and gave us this land; a land flowing with milk & honey"
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healing to me means getting to live life again in peace with these new scars.
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“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.” Samuel Smiles Is something Im trying to remember. Also knowing you are not alone, someone out there will listen to you and will believe you. Hope is seeing the work people do for the people that have been through darkest and toughest time.
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I need to reach out i hope to heal from this. my goal is to get him locked up before this happens again. my hope is to ask god to guide me.
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
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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.
If we could go back in time, we would do a lot of things differently. But we can't.
Report
Self-forgiveness for letting things get this far and self-forgiveness for the decisions I’ve made that are now having an impact on me and everyone around me.
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healing to me means getting to live life again in peace with these new scars.
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I need to reach out i hope to heal from this. my goal is to get him locked up before this happens again. my hope is to ask god to guide me.
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
Report
You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward. It's okay to not be okay - things will get better.
Report
Deuteronomy 26:9 says "then, he brought us to this place and gave us this land; a land flowing with milk & honey"
Report
Healing means everything to me- And honestly you are healing every single day!! every single day!! little by little.
Report
Healing is acceptance, healing is patience with yourself, healing is self compassion.
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
Report
Move your bodies in ways that feel good to you as much as you can. It helps us release
Report
“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.” Samuel Smiles Is something Im trying to remember. Also knowing you are not alone, someone out there will listen to you and will believe you. Hope is seeing the work people do for the people that have been through darkest and toughest time.
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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.