You have a powerful story to share…and your story can inspire the hopes and dreams of many other women & girls.
Welcome to Say It Forward, where every woman & girl is encouraged to share her remarkably unique story of overcoming the fears, personal beliefs, or circumstances that have held her back in any way. We are grateful to the women & girls who have already shared their stories and invite you to read them. We hope you will be willing to share one of your stories that highlights a breakthrough you have had in your journey to realizing how truly amazing you are.
Latest Stories
The three stories most recently posted...

Thank you, daddy
How you feel is correct 100% of the time even when it feels disloyal. How you feel is correct 100% of the time. As Father’s Day approaches those of us...
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A story about a DeafBlind little girl
Greetings My name is Ncebakazi Dotwana and i am 27 years old. I am a mother of two children, one of them is living with Deafness and Blindness, life has...
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Just Words
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains descriptions of rape and other forms of sexual assault. Just words. You have trouble talking about these things....
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A rotating collection of past stories…

BELIEVE that:
You don’t like him don’t wait for your gut to scream at you until it turns you inside out. When it inevitably does because you’ll do what you want regardless....
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It all starts with YOU!
BELIEVING is CHANGING. how I did it and how I am still managing to do it. I’ll start with my story with stress, and how stress changed me over the...
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The Courage to Leave An Abusive Relationship
“A woman in an abusive relationship tries six or seven times to leave before she is successful.” This is the statistic the DSHS caseworker gave me as I sat in...
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Scripting My Own Story
I grew up in a small city called Guwahati, tucked in the far northeast of India. My region is full of abundant resources but also had its own share of...
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My healing journey.
I am going to tell you my full story. There’s several people who know different chapters of this, but not a single soul that’s ever known the whole thing. Why...
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Go forth and be great.-Caroline Mochoge
Society has coined us to believe that we are confined to a certain culture, lifestyle, beliefs of this world that determine wrong from right. Guess what? In this world, everyone...
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Stories submitted by women under 30…

Without suck there cannot be growth
Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to be a pilot. Growing up just 20 minutes away from Frankfurt Airport I would spend hours watching the aircraft doing...
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MY JOURNEY FROM THE PARTY HOUSE TO THE PULPIT
I was always that party girl, not just attending them, but throwing them too. Honestly my insecurities had caught up with me, so many doors in my life were shut...
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De deshuesada a empoderada
Algo chistosa mi historia, porque lo más característico de quien soy ahora es algo que apenas y puedo recordar. Mi nacimiento fue, en palabras de mis padres: ‘un milagro’, desde...
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NEVER SACRIFICE YOURSELF
I want to tell you that a woman can make her life better on her own. This story still hurts inside. And because I see them on social networks and...
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THIS VICIOUS CYCLE
The main point of my story is to let other women and girls who face the same problem know that they are not alone. And, knowing about this issue and...
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The Tree of Hope
I want to give this message for every Syrian girl and woman, to not lose hope and to not give up in their lives. ~ Photo credit: Image courtesy of...
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