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I don’t want to see you ever again

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Message to a Survivor

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.

Message of Healing

Healing comes with time, it always come with time, you have to learn a lot of things in order to heal, not just learn but realise a whole lot of things. I have heard many people say healing is like a roller coaster, there will be times where you feel like you’re in tiptop shape and you’re happy, but then you’re back where you’re started. Then later that roller coaster will sooner or later calm down. You just have to want to heal, if you don’t want to do anything and think healing will just come, that is not how it works. I believe in you<3

I remember I was about 7(girl) she was about 6 years old, one year older. We were close friends, to be honest I saw her as my second friend I only had one other friend. My older sister, me, her older sister and her, were a friend group, we were neighbours so we hung out almost every single day, we had sleepovers that would sometimes last over 3 days. One time at a sleepover, my older sister and her older sister kicked us out of the room because they didn’t want to “babysit” us anymore. We were alone home because their mother was out somewhere. We first started to play normally, then we became quiet for a moment sitting in silence. She then said “Do you know what sex is?”, “No, what is it?” I said, she then stood up and said “Let me show you”, while giggling, we went to her mothers room, she said lay down on the floor, I did, I was wearing a dress with Elsa and Anna printed on it, she lifter up my dress and pulled down my underwear, she never went inside with anything, only ever touching and kissing me. But then she said to the same to me, and I didn’t have the courage to say no, so I did. Long story short, my sister and her sister caught us. My sister had a reaction that showed what I did was bad and said she recorded us, that is how I found out what I did was bad. My sister proceeded to threaten to show it to mom if I didn’t do what she told me to do for the next few years till I was 10. After they caught us the first time, I didn’t want to do it anymore, but the girl later pushed me to it three more times before they moved, I didn’t have contact later with them. My sister continued to threaten to say it to mom if I didn’t do as I was told, she used me as a servant for 3 more years, which made my situation worse. My sister was also a child, older, but still a child. Later I found out what porn was, I started to over sexualise myself, and I got a porn addiction, which I’m still working on. Those years were the worst years of my life the adults in my life didn’t help anything, they didn’t keep me safe. I’m still unsure if what happened was COCSA (child on child sexual assault), because I was older than her, because I didn’t refuse but I also didn’t agree. This whole thing confuses me. I don’t know where she learned that, but I just wish to never see her again. If that thing never happened, I feel like I would be a whole different person, a better or worse person? I don’t know. I wish I could have my childhood back, I want my innocence back.

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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.