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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.
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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Healing comes in waves, not all at once. Sometimes I can feel the trauma leaking out of me. You are still healing. You are still healing. You are still healing.
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You are alone. Don't be shame. Reach out to someone you know. There are organizations out there that can help with emergency housing and food.
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I never thought one could be truly free of addiction, emotional torment, and past trauma. It starts with the willingness to take small risks. Opening up to a friend. Attending a support group. Finding a counselor. Writing in a journal. Self-care. Simply getting out of bed in the morning.
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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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Healing means to me, being able to live. I have bad anxiety that was triggered after my assault and I often struggle to do things. Healing is focusing on yourself and your inner peace to me. Being able to enjoy things in your own and in others company
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What happened was not your fault. You deserve to be speak and be heard.
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Healing to me is being kind to yourself and allow yourself to have those hard days, allow your heart to love yourself because you are pretty amazing. For me art was my way to express those feelings even though I was not good at it, I just let it be and kept going.
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Healing to me means realising none of this was ever my fault - it wasn’t what I was wearing or because I was drunk. And it also means working hard to make sure women and girls are safe
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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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Be independent Be centered Develop a whole other person and life Safeguard yourself now and in the future Fight for changes via changes in laws Demonstrate your strength and perseverance Prevent others from harm or death
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i just want proof that this feeling isn’t going to be forever. his hands are burned into me and i chose to not remebr but my body forces me too and it’s so crippling and scary
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I want to learn to love myself enough that I don't fall for another person who does not love me.
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When I was 18 and away at my first semester of college I was gang raped at gunpoint. My PTSD started one year later. I had a very difficult time with work and relationships. I was never able to get married or have children.
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Hope, for me, is knowing I'm not alone. It's knowing that the abuse hides in the dark and that the more of us who speak up shines a light on it. Hope is knowing you're reading this. Hope is helping someone else know there's hope.
Report
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.
Healing comes in waves, not all at once. Sometimes I can feel the trauma leaking out of me. You are still healing. You are still healing. You are still healing.
Report
Healing means to me, being able to live. I have bad anxiety that was triggered after my assault and I often struggle to do things. Healing is focusing on yourself and your inner peace to me. Being able to enjoy things in your own and in others company
Report
What happened was not your fault. You deserve to be speak and be heard.
Report
Be independent Be centered Develop a whole other person and life Safeguard yourself now and in the future Fight for changes via changes in laws Demonstrate your strength and perseverance Prevent others from harm or death
Report
When I was 18 and away at my first semester of college I was gang raped at gunpoint. My PTSD started one year later. I had a very difficult time with work and relationships. I was never able to get married or have children.
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 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
Hope, for me, is knowing I'm not alone. It's knowing that the abuse hides in the dark and that the more of us who speak up shines a light on it. Hope is knowing you're reading this. Hope is helping someone else know there's hope.
Report
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
You are alone. Don't be shame. Reach out to someone you know. There are organizations out there that can help with emergency housing and food.
Report
I never thought one could be truly free of addiction, emotional torment, and past trauma. It starts with the willingness to take small risks. Opening up to a friend. Attending a support group. Finding a counselor. Writing in a journal. Self-care. Simply getting out of bed in the morning.
Report
Healing to me is being kind to yourself and allow yourself to have those hard days, allow your heart to love yourself because you are pretty amazing. For me art was my way to express those feelings even though I was not good at it, I just let it be and kept going.
Report
Healing to me means realising none of this was ever my fault - it wasn’t what I was wearing or because I was drunk. And it also means working hard to make sure women and girls are safe
Report
i just want proof that this feeling isn’t going to be forever. his hands are burned into me and i chose to not remebr but my body forces me too and it’s so crippling and scary
Report
I want to learn to love myself enough that I don't fall for another person who does not love me.
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.