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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.
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
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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.
Dear reader, this message contains language of self-harm that some may find triggering or discomforting.
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for me healing means taking the strength i’ve built up inside me to keep going and use it in a positive way, not running away from what happened to me but using it to fuel my life source. right now that seems difficult but it’s definitely what I want from healing.
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If you’re another survivor look at yourself in the mirror and admire your strength for you have made it this far in a world that has been cruel to you. You deserve to be safe, you deserve to be happy, you deserve to be loved by yourself and by others and you’re worthy of happiness. You are worthy of everything good and positive.
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Survival. accept and accepted myself as an asexual which is my nature I realized at 50 years old
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Absolutely. If my story is of help to anyone or anyone needs to share their story with me, I would be so happy if anything helps. I survived that part of my life and am working on the other parts.
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To me, healing means learning to live with what happened and carrying that with you.
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I believe you. What’s happening to you is not your fault and you don’t have to live like this.
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You are still here despite everything. You are the strongest, most resilient person. Keep going, the pain may never go away, but it will fade with time, I promise you that.
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Healing isn't always linear, there are ups and downs to every healing process. Just remind yourself that you didn't ask for that and it wasn't your fault.
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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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Hope is keeping the faith for a better day, knowing the advocates will help you every step of your Freedom Journey.
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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.
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
To me, healing means learning to live with what happened and carrying that with you.
Report
I believe you. What’s happening to you is not your fault and you don’t have to live like this.
Report
Hope is keeping the faith for a better day, knowing the advocates will help you every step of your Freedom Journey.
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
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
for me healing means taking the strength i’ve built up inside me to keep going and use it in a positive way, not running away from what happened to me but using it to fuel my life source. right now that seems difficult but it’s definitely what I want from healing.
Report
If you’re another survivor look at yourself in the mirror and admire your strength for you have made it this far in a world that has been cruel to you. You deserve to be safe, you deserve to be happy, you deserve to be loved by yourself and by others and you’re worthy of happiness. You are worthy of everything good and positive.
Report
Survival. accept and accepted myself as an asexual which is my nature I realized at 50 years old
Report
Absolutely. If my story is of help to anyone or anyone needs to share their story with me, I would be so happy if anything helps. I survived that part of my life and am working on the other parts.
Report
You are still here despite everything. You are the strongest, most resilient person. Keep going, the pain may never go away, but it will fade with time, I promise you that.
Report
Healing isn't always linear, there are ups and downs to every healing process. Just remind yourself that you didn't ask for that and it wasn't your fault.
Report
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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.