Welcome to SayItForward.org
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
My whole life I have been struggling with self love
My whole life I have been struggling with self love. I have felt lost like I don't belong anywhere, I have been trying to look for validation from everywhere else...
My Story
My life was doomed from the beginning. My parents dropped out of school 2 weeks before they graduated ran off and started having kids. It just so happened I was...
uno
I was in 1st year and I had just gotten my 1st boyfriend. I really loved him but after a few months of dating he changed, in a bad way....
This Is Not The Last From Me
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains descriptions of childhood sexual assault and rape. My story starts at 8 years old, although I’m not going...
I am Woman.
I am woman. I am strong, confident, powerful and bold. I am learning the value of my worth everyday with the awareness that self-care and self-love is a lifelong practice...
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....
Speaking your Truth
Keep the Faith
Everyone has a story right now, and in no way do I believe I am entitled for anyone to listen to mine. I am not sure why I am starting...
Rise of The Go-Getter Girl!
A go-getter girl is on a mission to write one of the greatest stories ever written. She makes life happen for herself, and does not let life happen to her....
Hands off my tamariki
I spoke at a family violence prevention conference in Aotearoa New Zealand recently about the rife state uplift of indigenous children here. New Zealand child protection harms more children than...
My story as an apostate
In May 2017, I submitted a petition to a court of law in the city of Omdurman asking for a change in my National Record of my religious status from...
Groat
Grout is an aggregate material often made with a cement or epoxy base. Grout is often used to hold tile in place and keep out moisture. Grout can be found...
My Story
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it includes references to childhood rape and abuse. My name is Kylie. And I am a survivor. Some backstory my...
Love
“BUT WITHOUT HIM, YOU’RE NOT ALONE”
When I got married I had no parents, no mother... I loved him, I trusted him, and I put my life in his hands... Then several problems started. I saw...
Kindness through Letters Mission (KTLM)
Hello I am Allison I am the founder of KTLM (Kindness through Letters Mission) a mission I started by myself to encourage and spread God’s love to people all over...
she won’t love me
i did everything for her, all she couldn’t give her from her ex, undivided attention, constant compliments, pda, cuddles, no arguments, talk to her, make her my priority. that’s all...
Changes, Choices and Challenges
Born in the family of educators, I was not only born teacher but born to be a teacher. Teaching is something that come naturally to me. Yes it is in...
Your life is worth living
Things I learned from a previous suicide attempt. By Sierra. On March 14, 2019, I tried to take my life. Earlier that day, I had come home from a long...
A journey from Silence to Symphony
In the silence, I found strength. In the darkness, I found light. And in the journey from silence to sound, I discovered the true essence of resilience." These were the...
Self-Empowerment
Crash: The Love Story
My awareness about my greatness came in stages due to the fact that that I was carrying a lot of baggage right up until the point of a near-death experience...
THROUGH THE BARS TO FREEDOM
[This is] the most powerful and yet, the most horrible story in my life. I still cannot realize how I managed to get in between the bars, because it was...
The strongest person I know
When they asked me, who is the strongest person I know? I replied, it's me...i am the strongest person I know, I have been through things no one knows and...
Toxic relationship and how i managed to come out of it
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it includes descriptions of rape and sexual assault. I had a relationship for 4 years and my boyfriend cheated on...
Overcoming Obesity
My Story of Overcoming Obesity I am strong and I am sucessful because I beat Obesity! Obesity is an issue that is very present in America today; and for the...
“Telling Your Story is Empowering”
VIDEO: Sonya Hartwig explains how sharing our stories can help us heal and empower ourselves and others, in this conversation with Elisa Gambino, One Production Place.
Trauma
It Gets Better
My name is Elisabeth, I am 20 years old and I'm currently a university student studying BioMedical Science. I have been reluctant to share my story (and still partly am)....
Ray’s Transformation
I am a Survivor of family/relationship trauma. Mother was abused by my father for 15 years and I growing up in a home where violence was prevelant swore I would...
how I got over depression as a teen
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it includes references to sexual assault. What happened to me? TRIGGER WARNING: A lot has happened to me in the...
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...
My story of Inspiration
I am sharing my video of sexual abuse, trauma but most of all, strength.
Postpartum Depression and Anxiety
When my son was born, it was the happiest moment in my life. I've never loved anything or anyone as much as i did him. I would die for him,...
Other Topics
Deafening Silence
I have two black dogs. Sometimes I only have one. But once I see him, I know the other one will shortly follow. I don’t always have the black dogs...
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...
Stories Lift Us Up
VIDEO: Margaret Kyakunda Mubanda talks with Elisa Gambino, One Production Place, about #ThePowerOfStories to lift us up, to educate and to inspire ourselves and others.
Thinking Global
Growing up, people most often identified me as the “dark-skinned girl” or the “charcoal seller’s daughter.” I come from a community where most daughters end up taking over their mother’s...
Women-ChangeMakers
I am Aysha Sanober 36 years old accidental entrepreneur in the footwear manufacturing industry of Ambur.,a town famously known for its briyani & its leather in the state of Tamilnadu...
Empowering Girls and Women to Achieve their Potential
It was a startling discovery five years ago that prompted me as a then 21-year-old girl in Uganda to found Go Girl Africa. My inspiration came from a chance encounter...