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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
The Perception
I am on a 5 hour ride with the famous Kenya SGR train going back to Nairobi from the coastal...
The Rainbow I Asked For
There Was A Moment When I Was Tired Of Trying To Understand Everything. I Had Questions. I Had Emotions. I...
When God Writes A Story You Didn’t Know You Were Living: From Hannah To Milk & Honey, Ruth, Will, Winnie & Shrek 🥛🍯🫏💚♈️♓️
My Story Is Honestly One Of Those Stories Where I Have To Step Back And Say, “Okay… God, You Were...
Surviving hell, in recovery
I was severely traumatized by my family. I am in recovery right now. I was abused through daily chores, cruel...
The note i wrote before I tried to go away
Dear people if u are reading this then Im ded or I might be , I'm writing this cause I'm...
Learning to Live Again: Finding Purpose in the Midst of Grief
You can never truly fathom what grief feels like until you lose someone close to you. For me, loss did...
My Testimony: Created for Freedom
My Testimony: Created for Freedom For years, I lived in a room with no air, constantly told that my suffocation...
The Tangled Web
When I returned home as a child after living abroad, my father placed a large welcome sign written in Arabic...
Growing up like an introverted and trying to share more about me.
Hello, My name is Maria, I like my name, it makes me feel protected and loved. I was born in...
Youngest in every room : First in my family
At 21 years old, I am on my way to earning my master’s degree in Cybersecurity before I turn 22....
Children are wired for kindness
This sunny morning, Baby Madam was given a snack, and after taking a few bites, carefully broke pieces of the...
Life is sweet
On May 16 2026 my heart stopped.It started back up but was sputtering,every time it stopped I blacked out and...
More Stories
Claiming Your Power
Brain trauma awakening
My story. Take a moment to reflect. Through this physical embodied lifetime we go through immense changes that other species are incapable of, this may be due to the fact...
My “I Can’t” Chorus
I am my biggest, "I can't-er." I do not remember a single instance in my life when someone told me I couldn't do or achieve something. I do remember the...
Reframe your beliefs and heal your life
Good Morning, I'm Claudia Pisano from Italy, I'm contacting you, because I want to share my beautiful and at the same time sad story that involve me and my first...
“This story is something we need to hear”
VIDEO: Mushairat Mamun shares her perspective on how stories can help make the world a better place in this short conversation with Elisa Gambino, One Production Place.
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...
I can and I will.
The society I grew up in is one that still believes a female's place is at the back. She is not to aim high, dream big or speak out except...
Speaking your Truth
My art
I am an extremely extrovert, optimistic, people person and for me a regular day wouldn’t end without meeting with at least 50 people. It was around 5 years from the...
“I was going to finish that sentence.”
Well into my career, I was in a meeting with a great group of intelligent, successful and confident business leaders. I respected every one of them. They were all men....
Make your own decisions.. For yourself First. Its Never too Late!!
Grown up in a society where i had to give up my desires of marrying someone whom i love, and especially race and caste mattered even if they agreed. I'm...
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....
Now I am a survivor
I was a victim. Now I am a survivor. I lived in a situation where I experienced emotional and verbal abuse from my father. My mom moved us into a...
From the Ashes…… I Rise
"Where are you?", this is the kind of a conversation i have with myself every morning , my mornings have become so tough, this is what happens after 5 years...
Love
GIRL, TAKEN
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains descriptions of kidnapping, captivity, and the violence of war. The world is full of victims. In the fall...
Hopelessness
I was always an anxious person. From the time I was very little I always worried about everything, in ways that nobody could ever understand. I would cry over things...
be a monster
From the day i was born i have been an outcast from society. My mother was 22 when she gave birth to me on the side of a country road...
JESUS MADE ME A STORYTELLER
Peace be upon all the readers of my life history and endless thanks to the Almighty God who helped me to pass all those difficult times. Now those bad days...
My Anecodote
Hey, My name is Levin Tilak, i have graduated in B.COM from Delhi university. I want to share my passion, dream it is something which i actually want to do/become...
Believing in myself
My father raped me before I started school. I did not remember until very recently, in my early adulthood. I have always remembered only his brother molesting me when I...
Self-Empowerment
Our defining moments
We live our lifes from moment to moment, from breath to breath. Somethings we hold our breath to make the moment last but at times we hold it, close our...
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...
Wenn Schwäche zu Stärke wird
Ein Kind der Stille war ich schon immer. Gern in der Natur, gern allein – und gern von anderen übersehen. Oft beschlich mich das Gefühl, ‘anders’ zu sein als die...
Women Working Together
My short term goal was easy. I aimed to be well conditioned and prepared to play baseball respectably at fantasy camp. The long term goal was more difficult. What kind...
How my traumatized childhood shaped who I am today
I grew up in Calgary, Canada. I grew up with a lot of family issues and these fights in my family (physical and verbal) have traumatized me. My dad is...
Simply Because It Is Yours
For the last eight years I’ve been working on HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Mexico but also globally, and I really feel that I have...
Trauma
My Story
Know That I wrote this because if I keep bottling everything inside me I’ll burst. So I guess this is a rant that is somewhat depressing. But I’d rather let...
The Guilt of Staying Home after Baby
Have you all noticed the shift in what the average American household consists of? If you are unsure of what I am exactly implying, I mean… have you ever looked...
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...
Andrea’s journey to self love
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it includes references to child abuse, sexual assault, violence and rape. I can’t remember a time when violence and trauma...
Expressing happiness… ?
Expressing happiness… ? Dr. Subhra D.B As a small cheerful child, a beaming school girl, a studious collegeer and further as an optimistic adult, I remember my mother always telling...
I’m glad I experienced Epilepsy
My name is Sydney and I am almost 25. I have four sisters who are free from allergies and disabilities. I was born in the Philippines and named Sydney because...
Other Topics
Be Afraid
Fear, a hollow feeling that swallows you from within, there are so many forms of it - Fear of being seen, fear of being unseen, fear of being at the...
La Hermandad de las Sobrevivientes de Cáncer
“Me temo que no tengo buenas noticias para ti”, dijo mi amiga quien también es mi ginecóloga. Podía escuchar la consternación en su voz. Este no era el resultado que...
Surviving an unhappy home
I was an extremely shy only child of a single mum, living alone with her after her divorce from my dad, and eventually she remarried a creepy guy who claimed...
Give yourself the time.
I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment....
The Reminders My Body Gives Me
This past weekend I noticed acne on the back of my shoulders and neck. At first, I was annoyed – 32 years old and religiously doing skin maintenance and I...
Reflect, Claim Our Space, and Power On!
For me, growing up was a series of realizations about the things that I ‘could not’ do, merely because I am a girl. And while my relative privilege allowed me...