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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 deserve love, kindness, honesty, and security. You really really do. There are good and loving people in the world. I am so grateful for my life now.
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I want to be a source of hope to the hopeless
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Help is everywhere don't try to be scared to look for help to somebody you know you could give trust to.
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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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Healing means acceptance, allowing help to be available, and peace.
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I’m sure everyone has heard that life will always kick you down. I think that is true, but it’s always up to you to try and pick yourself back up again, and when you do, good things will come to you. Try to find good things, view life from a different perspective, hope is always there you just have to find it.
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I find my hope in my children and my happiness now that I am free of him.
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Healing is been strong in yourself and believing every day that you did not do anything wrong. It was all on the Perpetrator. I have healed and so can anyone. I will never forget. It does leave pivotal marks and edelible scars but you have to live your life and be happy every day and know that you are a Survivor.
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Healing is difficult. In order to heal, you must accept that the harm is real. This is obviously painful. I heal with meditation, mantras, and self-defense mechanisms. I am hardly healed, but I am trying. Healing is difficult, painful even, but worth it. I feel strengthened by my attempts to heal.
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I’m in a loving Marraige, three amazing kids, good job, great friends - it took a tough road to get here but it was worth it xxx
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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 deserve love, kindness, honesty, and security. You really really do. There are good and loving people in the world. I am so grateful for my life now.
Report
I want to be a source of hope to the hopeless
Report
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
Healing means acceptance, allowing help to be available, and peace.
Report
I find my hope in my children and my happiness now that I am free of him.
Report
I’m in a loving Marraige, three amazing kids, good job, great friends - it took a tough road to get here but it was worth it xxx
Report
Help is everywhere don't try to be scared to look for help to somebody you know you could give trust to.
Report
I’m sure everyone has heard that life will always kick you down. I think that is true, but it’s always up to you to try and pick yourself back up again, and when you do, good things will come to you. Try to find good things, view life from a different perspective, hope is always there you just have to find it.
Report
Healing is difficult. In order to heal, you must accept that the harm is real. This is obviously painful. I heal with meditation, mantras, and self-defense mechanisms. I am hardly healed, but I am trying. Healing is difficult, painful even, but worth it. I feel strengthened by my attempts to heal.
Report
Healing is been strong in yourself and believing every day that you did not do anything wrong. It was all on the Perpetrator. I have healed and so can anyone. I will never forget. It does leave pivotal marks and edelible scars but you have to live your life and be happy every day and know that you are a Survivor.
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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.