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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
Afiya Shafiq (25) born and raised in the Netherlands, life as an Afghan and Russian girl
Dear person reading this, let me introduce myself! My name is Afiya Shafiq, 25 years old, born and raised in...
711 Heal My Hurts
Life’s storms ⛈️ may be unpredictable, but one ☝🏽 thing is for certain - the rainbow 🌈 will follow. Keep...
Accepted. Funded. Rejected.
I was born as one of six daughters in a South Sudanese polygamous family—where, from the very beginning, my worth...
The rest is still unwritten
Natasha Bedingfield was onto something when she released Unwritten. Staring at the blank page before you. Oof. It’s like a...
Born Too Close to the End
By B. A. ⸻ Chapter 1: The Womb of Death I came into the world fragile, almost nothing. My tiny...
Warriors Without Swords: The Unstoppable Power of Women
A woman is the full circle. Within her lies the power to create, nurture, and transform.” – Diane Mariechild A...
A letter to able-bodied people
Dear able-bodied people, Can we please agree that praying for a disabled person to be healed after they’ve said no...
To my late mother, Latika
My mother who passed away in 2013 in Nashik city(India) used to tell me her story of going to school...
Broken To Brilliant
I Wrote On Here Multiple Times On Here. My Recently One Was About My Baby Sister “Mariah Symone Sanders” On...
We live to continue his legacy
I had promised myself that i would document every step of grief , but i wasnt very ready of the...
Stuck
There's a lot I wanna say to you but cant. I can't explain why you just changed my whole life...
Losing It All While Finding Myself
I am a child of trauma who grew into an adult shaped by it. The earliest pieces of my story...
More Stories
Claiming Your Power
Building Support and Trust Through Volunteering
When I was 15 years old, I joined Youth for Youth, a Romanian non-governmental organization working on youth sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). I became a volunteer and...
Invincible
For a long time I never really knew how bad my life truly was. Yet, I am still very thankful for the experience of life. When I was a child...
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...
I WITHERED AND BLOOMED AGAIN THIS TIME WITH MORE STRENGTH.
I still remember that chubby girl with full of love, dreams, energy, curiosity and desires. When she started blossoming, the people around plucked her very badly. One day, after trying...
To Whom Do You Give Your Power?
I love kaleidoscopes because they remind me that in an instant, everything can change. In many of the “kaleidoscope moments” of my life, I have been able to see long-held...
Weird
Weird. That mostly sums up my social life struggles growing up as a girl. Weird. My family is “weird”, my laugh is “weird”, my sense of humor is “weird” and...
Speaking your Truth
The truth I kept away from myself
My life changed as a soul when I chose to come into this lifetime on Earth. I have felt unworthiness, inadequacy, unappreciated, separation and mostly not enough for who I...
Finding My Inner Superwoman Despite Battling a Rare Disease
Devic’s disease is a neurological disease of the brain and spinal cord dominated by inflammation of the optic nerve (optic neuritis) and inflammation of the spinal cord (myelitis). It’s often...
When your body says “Reset”
I don't know what to call this feeling, but recently i have just been tired, not from doing anything, but one moment am okay, and the next one am battling...
My Identity
Lost Black Boi I didn't ask to be here or even ask to see what my eyes has seen.. See I wasn't your typical Black Boi my gender didn't match...
To Whom Do You Give Your Power?
I love kaleidoscopes because they remind me that in an instant, everything can change. In many of the “kaleidoscope moments” of my life, I have been able to see long-held...
foster care
The first time I felt the heaviness of the handcuffs digging into my small wrists, the cool metal biting into her skin. i sat in the back of the police...
Love
Life from hell
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains references to childhood rape, other forms of violence and abuse. My name is Scarlett Rose, I am 19,...
The Superpowers We All Have
I remember when I was around eight or nine years old, I used to doodle encouraging messages to myself on my school notebooks. “You are really cool!” or “Kinga is...
Your Words and Ideas Matter
When I started coaching two years ago, I went into it with the hope that I would inspire my GOTR girls. Little did I know just how much they would...
I need to speak up
The first season I coached GOTR - I had only been home for a few years after a bad divorce. Curriculum 1 (this was fall 2012) was so amazing for...
Training Wheels
I am grateful for every lesson on my path to empowerment, and for the past week I have been especially grateful to a joyful 4-year-old girl (I am guessing her...
Hold on… for lack of a better title
???? I hope sharing my story is truly anonymous? I’m an adult male in my 40’s. I was sexually abused at the age of 6 or 7…. Maybe 5? I...
Self-Empowerment
Our Turn
'It's a wonderful life after all' such a refreshing saying to hear no? If only it were true... At each point of our lives, right from the Palaeolithic Age till...
From Mouse to Lioness ~ Listening to my inner voice.
Always a rather timid, shy woman, I was raised at a time when young women were seen and not heard. I'd sit in the company of those older than myself...
Waking up to your dreams
My name is DosumuFlexxy, I survived TB. It was really a time and period of pain but indeed I survived it. My story is to inspire a heart that gives...
Stand for yourself and fight when its wrong.
Hey. Meet me, Angel Maria. I'm a teenager from back in school looking for a simple, peaceful life. My early years were marked by terror and horrific experiences. My cousins...
TB SURVIVOR (Lost Her Job but She keeps fighting against tuberculosis irrespective of that)
SUCCESS STORY CREATING AWARENESS TO STOP TUBERCULOSIS IN NIGERIA. My name is Dosumu Oluwafunke, a mother, a wife and a Graduate from university of ilorin Nigeria. Am a TB survivor....
Above dark clouds the sky is always blue
After having a privileged adolescence in my native country, including going to a very well known university 4 hours away from my parents’ house, I found my self living in...
Trauma
This is my story
I grew up knowing i would be dead before 18. I grew up in a house full of hatred. I grew up in an adoptive home where I felt worthless...
I’m strong enough to get through it
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, be aware that it contains descriptions of childhood rape, and other forms of violence and abuse. My story begins somewhere in the early 1990's....
A journey of grief
It has taken me 14 years to finally learn how to grieve. When you’re 17, no one really teaches or prepares you for the waves that come with it. Sure,...
dark to happy phase of my life
Hi! iam here to share my life story with you. . i am happy until my 4th standard but after then my life became like a dark sky without moon....
the middle point in life.
My story is not so much of a story yet, because i am still living. But for the day i pass into darkness, here is my story so far. I...
Untitled 18
im a 13 year old trans male. from when i was 5-6 till now i always got bullied for being fat, for being the weird kid. i never had any...
Other Topics
Partear la vida toda
Soy Natalia, tengo 26 años, me formé como Licenciada en obstetricia en las provincias de Tucumán y Entre Ríos, Argentina, me considero feminista , activista por los derechos de las...
She speaks
Some days , when the day is too tough and the night are too dark , I console myself with some poetry really want to forget I really do But...
SPEAK UP
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains references to rape and to childhood sexual molestation. I am a 32 year old woman.Growing up in a...
Guts
Have you ever had a gut feeling about something and ignored it, just for it to turn out to be the worst thing in the world? Like thinking it’s a...
We still lack female voice advocacy
Hello! I am a black woman in an African country! I am 28 years old.During my school years I have been A very supportive and non biased friend.I started teaching...
Light and thunder
My Children Will Be Light and Thunder My children will be wild— not reckless, but true. They will be fire-fed and water-wise, with roots deep in the earth and eyes...