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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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Is it bad that I still feel dirty after my old friend forced me to kiss her when I was 6-7 and she was 10-11?
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You are not alone. You will never be alone. You have so much fight in you and i know it sucks to feel like you have to keep fighting all the time but I also know you need to see what the world has for you. It will be alright. I believe in your journey the way other people believed in mine.
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it means to me that i dont have to live with this dark cloud of shame hanging over my head anymore
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i would try to encourage you to speak up. you will feel a heavy lift you had now would be more bearable
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sometimes you might feel gross in your own skin or in the clothes you wear and thats normal and your feelings are valid i usually just take a shower to remind myself that im clean and wear the clothes where its safe to remind myself im not going to be hurt everywhere i go you got this and i wish you the best
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I found hope in reading, as cliche as it sounds, I’ve been reading the Bible, other romance novels, and a great book called “raising emotionally healthy boys.”
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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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I would love to be able to move on. Ever since what happened I haven’t been able to put myself out there for someone to date again. I am too scared that something like that will happen again
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Healing to me, is watching my daughter grow up and not witness what would have happened to my life (and hers) had I stayed. Knowing that her childhood wasn’t ruined because of me. Healing is slowly putting back the pieces of myself that have been broken for so long. Long before she was born.
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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 are not alone. You will never be alone. You have so much fight in you and i know it sucks to feel like you have to keep fighting all the time but I also know you need to see what the world has for you. It will be alright. I believe in your journey the way other people believed in mine.
Report
i would try to encourage you to speak up. you will feel a heavy lift you had now would be more bearable
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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.
Report
Healing to me, is watching my daughter grow up and not witness what would have happened to my life (and hers) had I stayed. Knowing that her childhood wasn’t ruined because of me. Healing is slowly putting back the pieces of myself that have been broken for so long. Long before she was born.
Report
Is it bad that I still feel dirty after my old friend forced me to kiss her when I was 6-7 and she was 10-11?
Report
I would love to be able to move on. Ever since what happened I haven’t been able to put myself out there for someone to date again. I am too scared that something like that will happen again
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
it means to me that i dont have to live with this dark cloud of shame hanging over my head anymore
Report
sometimes you might feel gross in your own skin or in the clothes you wear and thats normal and your feelings are valid i usually just take a shower to remind myself that im clean and wear the clothes where its safe to remind myself im not going to be hurt everywhere i go you got this and i wish you the best
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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.