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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.
Time is the only healer in reality, but sharing your story with whoever you need to is super important. Let your feeling be validated, seek empathy from loved ones and not sympathy.
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Maybe, you don't report it. And that's okay. You CAN report it. You have every right to, even in a foreign country. But you are still worthy and wonderful. and strong. Maybe you'll have a trial. It's scary. But it happens, and it's done. Maybe the find the offender guilty. Maybe they don't. Maybe he's "not guilty." It's okay. It is not your fault. You know your truth.
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Ideally, justice. Of course, the next steps are seeking therapy and medication if needed -- both of which are important to help learn to regulate.
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Congratulations Elizabeth on all your Dedication and Commitment to passing Trey’s Law!! Officially in Effect in Texas today!! 🙌🎉💯 You are Honoring Trey with Legacy and Love! ❤️🩹❤️🩹
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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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There will definitely be someone out there who will listen to you. You may make mistakes by talking to the wrong person, but believe that there is someone out there who will listen to you.
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A couple years ago I sent a letter each to my then boyfriend and the guy. I felt better.
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It is possible to leave an abusive situation. I am sad, but I am free.
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Hope comes from late Old English hopa "confidence in the future,". I would reframe that to having confidence in yourself. HOPE can be dangerous and you can hope for change, hope for better but YOU ARE ENOUGH as you are and if you are hoping for better then believe you can do it. Be kind to yourself and put one foot in-front of the other.
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Writing is therapy for me. Sharing my experience with domestic violence has been liberating essential to my recovery. I wrote a book to warn victims about my experiences with domestic violence and the mental health ‘side effects’. As a budding advocate, my goal is to reach as many victims and survivors as possible; and to piss off misogynists...one book at a time.
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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.
A couple years ago I sent a letter each to my then boyfriend and the guy. I felt better.
Report
Hope comes from late Old English hopa "confidence in the future,". I would reframe that to having confidence in yourself. HOPE can be dangerous and you can hope for change, hope for better but YOU ARE ENOUGH as you are and if you are hoping for better then believe you can do it. Be kind to yourself and put one foot in-front of the other.
Report
Writing is therapy for me. Sharing my experience with domestic violence has been liberating essential to my recovery. I wrote a book to warn victims about my experiences with domestic violence and the mental health ‘side effects’. As a budding advocate, my goal is to reach as many victims and survivors as possible; and to piss off misogynists...one book at a time.
Report
Ideally, justice. Of course, the next steps are seeking therapy and medication if needed -- both of which are important to help learn to regulate.
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
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
There will definitely be someone out there who will listen to you. You may make mistakes by talking to the wrong person, but believe that there is someone out there who will listen to you.
Report
Time is the only healer in reality, but sharing your story with whoever you need to is super important. Let your feeling be validated, seek empathy from loved ones and not sympathy.
Report
Maybe, you don't report it. And that's okay. You CAN report it. You have every right to, even in a foreign country. But you are still worthy and wonderful. and strong. Maybe you'll have a trial. It's scary. But it happens, and it's done. Maybe the find the offender guilty. Maybe they don't. Maybe he's "not guilty." It's okay. It is not your fault. You know your truth.
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
Report
Congratulations Elizabeth on all your Dedication and Commitment to passing Trey’s Law!! Officially in Effect in Texas today!! 🙌🎉💯 You are Honoring Trey with Legacy and Love! ❤️🩹❤️🩹
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It is possible to leave an abusive situation. I am sad, but I am free.
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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.