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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
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...
A Story of Recovery
Telling my story might help me heal and maybe help someone else in the process. We read other people's stories all the time. This is just mine. I don’t like...
The spectrum of empowerment!!!
“A woman is the full Circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform”. – Diane Mariechild A women’s role can be appropriately described as ‘multi-dimensional’. A women...
Baseball: A game for boys AND for girls
My name is Laura and I want to share my story about Girls playing baseball. When I was 6, I moved to Tokyo with my parents and immediately discovered baseball,...
Long way to diagnosis
Hi everyone I rarely share any piece of my personal life with social media as I am a very private person but after reading your stories, whether you’ve been yet...
Voice for the voiceless
When I was a little girl, I thought I was worthless and would never amount to anything because of what I was told and the way I was treated. I...
Speaking your Truth
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...
Mesh Lives Matter: Told I would “have to live with the pain”
My life is never going to be how it should be. My story begins in 2006, I had a TVT mesh implant procedure after many years of suffering with stress...
sexual assault.
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains references to childhood sexual assault and descriptions of self-harm. i just want someone to know, someone random to...
B 4 I go
I was a special Ed child, hyper. I pray to God that I was sorry for the mean things I done. 1 st I had teen pregnancy. I got married,in...
Ro9se
Angelea Story I am a mother of four children and recently my oldest son 19 was killed (11-30-18). Shortly after my husband whom I met and started dating in the...
You’re not alone!
As I’m sitting here wanting to spill all my life secrets to the world with the hope of coming clean and rebuilding my whole life, I couldn’t even bring myself...
Love
Leading a Generation of Tech Enthusiasts for the Environment
By Christine Sayo and translated by Paul Nganga Mutua Very few people recognize the role that women play in environment conservation. Research shows that women are more heavily impacted by...
Steel is often Strengthened By Fire
Steel- Noun: a hard, strong, gray or bluish-gray alloy of iron with carbon and usually other elements, used extensively as a structural and fabricating material. Verb: mentally prepare (oneself) to...
Untitled
I don't know what to do about myself zip strayed working out 2 weeks agof and I ate really small potions in my 3 day meal and snacks every Friday...
Survivor of sexual abuse
I was sexually abused at the age of three up to ten, I went through something so traumatizing that I don’t wish on anyone even if it was my worst...
Indian women history museum – celebrating women history
Greetings! Indian History Women Museum will be start on International Women's Day Indian Women's History Museum- Celebrating Women's History A space to explore and celebrate the lives of women of...
Catherine Constantinides – A Superhero Without A Cape
Catherine Constantinides’s list of achievements and accolades is long enough to fill pages of books yet to be written by her and about her. Who starts their first business at...
Self-Empowerment
Los Momentos Que Nos Definen
Vivimos nuestras vidas de momento a momento, de respiración a respiración. A veces, aguantamos nuestra respiración para que el momento dure, pero otras veces, cerramos los ojos y rogamos para...
How i am a fixer in progress and why i don’t feel bad about it and why you shouldn’t either
How I am a fixer in progress and why I don't feel bad about it and why you shouldn't either I believe part of me will always be to some...
The power of believe on yourself
Kwa majina naitwa Shella Salum nina miaka 33 naishi dar es salaam, Tanzania. Ni mhitimu wa chui kikuu degree of arts with education 2015, Sikupata ajira serikalini nikaajiriwa shule binafsi...
Happiness is our birth right
For a huge period of my life, I tied my self-worth with being a good house wife, my values as a woman consisted on learning how to cook and cleaning...
Sisterhood
What do you love about Girls on the Run? I love the bond we have they treat like i'm their sister and the dedication they have on running. My favorite...
Stop Blaming (yourself)
Blame is a way we discharge pain. We blame others, hurling insults and digging our heels into the cushy comfort of self-righteous indignation. Or we blame ourselves. We beat ourselves...
Trauma
Sebastian the angel baby heaven received.
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it includes photos and graphic and explicit description of a stillbirth. Where should I start? I have dreamt my entire...
My Life as a trans woman
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains references to childhood rape, sexual abuse, suicide and other forms of self-harm. My Story My name is Jenna,...
My Battles | Distal Pancreatectomy & Atrophic Pancreas
In 2003, an eight-year-old child underwent distal pancreatectomy (a surgery to remove a tumour from the body or tail of your pancreas) and cholecystectomy in Delhi, India. She still has...
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....
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...
How I made my own dreams come true
Counseling has the potential to change the world; this belief resonates deep within me. I am a graduate student at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, TX studying Mental...
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...
SMILE
When I was in Elementary School, I was a gloomy and quiet kid. Average in my looks and grades, I got often overlooked by my peers and my teachers. I...
“This is who I am”
Many a times women refer to other women as their own enemies, the thing is we focus a lot on the negative and forget about the positive and amazing things...
Be kind.
I try to look all put together, but I'm as conflicted as any other - trying to make sense of life. I had been told from an early age that...
The Sisterhood of Cancer Survivors
"I'm afraid I don't have good news for you," my friend said. She is also my gynecologist. I could hear the shock in her voice. This was not the outcome...
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i am thirteen years old and i have an overwhelming amount to say. i am also autistic, so i struggle with words. i was seven years old when i was...