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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.
Good morning, I hope you have a better day today.
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Healing is having enough time and people who care to absorb some of the broken hollow energy. Having people that just leave you alone sometimes to get a hold of yourself. And Having people or something to distract you so that you are not always alone with your broken hollow energy. So I guess life is a catch 22. A paradox.
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As someone who is in the process of court hearings due to rape and sexual assault. It would be nice to find support and speak to others who are in similar situations.
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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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Healing means everything to me- And honestly you are healing every single day!! every single day!! little by little.
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You matter, your story matters, and nobody knows what happened to you that day. Never stop fighting. Never let it get the best of you.
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I've a lot of healing to do. Starting with counselling to try understand everything and why it wasn't all my fault.
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I have to be hopeful that one day it will all be over. But I need to act.
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I want not to think about this abuse every time I think about closeness
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healing means taking things step by step sometimes you get forward sometimes you step back. everything’s a process
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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.
You matter, your story matters, and nobody knows what happened to you that day. Never stop fighting. Never let it get the best of you.
Report
I want not to think about this abuse every time I think about closeness
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healing means taking things step by step sometimes you get forward sometimes you step back. everything’s a process
Report
Healing is having enough time and people who care to absorb some of the broken hollow energy. Having people that just leave you alone sometimes to get a hold of yourself. And Having people or something to distract you so that you are not always alone with your broken hollow energy. So I guess life is a catch 22. A paradox.
Dear reader, the following message contains explicit use of homophobic, racist, sexist, or other derogatory language that may be distressing and offensive.
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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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Good morning, I hope you have a better day today.
Dear reader, the following message contains explicit use of homophobic, racist, sexist, or other derogatory language that may be distressing and offensive.
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As someone who is in the process of court hearings due to rape and sexual assault. It would be nice to find support and speak to others who are in similar situations.
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
I've a lot of healing to do. Starting with counselling to try understand everything and why it wasn't all my fault.
Report
I have to be hopeful that one day it will all be over. But I need to act.
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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.