You are authentic. This is why it is so hard to understand the process you just went through in your trauma and abuse. Toxic relationships have a way of making a truly authentic person feel as if they have betrayed themselves and failed. This is because in your authenticity, you have sought to put blame to yourself; you have sought to find some way of being responsible for what has happened, because if you are responsible, it means you can do something to fix it. During the time of enduring abuse and trauma, you defended yourself. You acted in ways that surprised yourself. You cried yourself t ..read more

Beloved. What a beautiful, yet mysterious word. Beloved means you are secure. It means that beyond your flaws, beyond your struggles, beyond your worries and stresses, there is a place of eternal solitude where your identity can never be shaken. Beyond the grips of fear, your identity as beloved is an eternal truth. I know you were treated like garbage. I know you were screamed at, manipulated, and made to think horrible things about yourself and the person abusing you. I know every single second you endured beneath the hands of such oppression was another second you spent doubting your worth ..read more

You are authentic. This is why it is so hard to understand the process you just went through in your trauma and abuse. Toxic relationships have a way of making a truly authentic person feel as if they have betrayed themselves and failed. This is because in your authenticity, you have sought to put blame to yourself; you have sought to find some way of being responsible for what has happened, because if you are responsible, it means you can do something to fix it. During the time of enduring abuse and trauma, you defended yourself. You acted in ways that surprised yourself. You cried yourself t ..read more

I know it's not easy healing in the aftermath of abuse. I know you didn't sign up for the way things turned out. I know you feel like pieces of you are either broken, or missing - or both. There is something I want you - and need you - to understand: You are whole. Magnificently and entirely one. You are not fragmented, even if your feelings are. You see, feelings are different than identity. You may feel broken because pieces of your free will have been stomped on; you may feel fragmented because the person you thought was going to love you turned out to be the biggest source of pain in your ..read more

You are authentic. This is why it is so hard to understand the process you just went through in your trauma and abuse. Toxic relationships have a way of making a truly authentic person feel as if they have betrayed themselves and failed. This is because in your authenticity, you have sought to put blame to yourself; you have sought to find some way of being responsible for what has happened, because if you are responsible, it means you can do something to fix it.  During the time of enduring abuse and trauma, you defended yourself. You acted in ways that surprised yourself. You cried ..read more

I know it's not easy healing in the aftermath of abuse. I know you didn't sign up for the way things turned out. I know you feel like pieces of you are either broken, or missing - or both. There is something I want you - and need you - to understand: You are whole. Magnificently and entirely one. You are not fragmented, even if your feelings are. You see, feelings are different than identity. You may feel broken because pieces of your free will have been stomped on; you may feel fragmented because the person you thought was going to love you turned out to be the biggest source of pain in your ..read more

Trigger warning: the following story contains descriptions of violence. Read with caution. You voted and it was a tie between A and C - that she would ask hi ..read more

Trigger warning: the following story contains descriptions of violence. Read with caution. You voted and you chose A - that she would confront his behavior i ..read more

Trigger warning: the following story contains descriptions of violence. Read with caution. You voted and you chose A - that she would be a young mother, tra ..read more

Trigger warning: the following story contains descriptions of violence. Read with caution. You voted and you chose A - that her abuser was her Step-Dad. If y ..read more