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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
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...
Lost
Iʼm just a 21year old girl, society and people pressure you to get married when you reach certain age like...
My Divorce Was Not A Failure
It’s been several years since I went through the break-up of my marriage. I stayed in the shell of that...
Legend of the Children
The Legend of the Children A long time ago on a place called Red Mountain, children were born and lived...
The Cost Of Justice
"Mficha Uchi Hazai." My mother has repeated these words to me for as long as I can remember. In English,...
The Friendship That Ended in Silence
Lately, I have been feeling bittersweet about a friendship that ended about four years ago. I met this friend on...
About me
My Special Needs Awareness Journey By Abigail Louise Francis Garvey My name is Abigail Louise Francis Garvey this is my...
holidays and death
not sure where to start but my grief kicked in when I watch my mother take her last breaths on...
How a desire became Embrace Her
I grew up in Vietnam with loving parents and a family that always supported me. I had access to education,...
The Silent Scream of Herat: Shrouded in Black, Stripped of Light
I am amazing because I am still breathing, still fighting, and still holding on to my identity in a city...
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Claiming Your Power
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...
Running the Race- A Testimony of Love and Grace
My name is De'Ana Forbes. I am a student at James Madison University (JMU) in Harrisonburg, VA. I enrolled at the university in the fall of 2013 after being recruited...
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 is not okay? Recently my mom and I were out...
The Climb
I am not a doctor I am not a physiologist I’m not a university graduate I do not have a 6 figure job ! I’ve never written a thing (expect...
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...
Speaking your Truth
I Survived, You Can Too
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, be aware that it contains descriptions of childhood rape, and other forms of violence and abuse. My name is Leigh* and I want to...
When Weakness Becomes Strength
I had always been a quiet child, enjoying nature, keeping to myself – and being overlooked by others. Many times the feeling of being different from others overcame me, in...
My story of Inspiration
I am sharing my video of sexual abuse, trauma but most of all, strength.
Sinless Cathelin
This story starts from the teens where a girl was growing to be a brave, innocent, and smart child with great features like black shiny hair, black eyes, and a...
Resilient: A Survivor’s Path to Triumph
Resilient: A Survivor’s Path to Triumph It took me 25 years to understand what was wrong with me. It all started when I turned 18 and I decided to go...
Speak out loud for your rights
Mahwash Athar from Islamabad Pakistan. Just After I did my Graduation my parents arrange my marriage. I went to Karachi Pakistan as my ex husband resident of Karachi. I lived...
Love
The Voice of a Survivor
During the three decades I have lived as a woman, I have experienced, felt, and witnessed many discriminatory practices, especially harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation and child/forced...
No Stigma Just Love!!!
Many people believe that having mental health issues is a choice, that people choose to be sad or depressed, or that they would get better if they only knew how...
It was too late
I am not proud of this story but if this story can help one person then it was worth telling. I met a man when I was 19 that I...
Castera Charles Survive and Thrive
I was born in Haiti, where life is a much different experience. I have many brothers and sisters, and we were about as poor as you could ever imagine being....
Universal love and the need to express the laws which were created to establish the basic principles of human existence!
Memorial Day weekend honors all the fallen who have given their lives so as Americans we would enjoy independence as they choose. I was not given the same comforts as...
One side love????
So my story is all about one side love . I starting I would like to say to that don't go through my grammer ......fell the felling of my story.....
Self-Empowerment
Escaping the Land of Should
Unrealistic expectations are burdens we choose to carry or to leave behind. Some of those expectations are our own and some are rooted in what others want from us. We...
An Angel During Change
Job titles and salaries will never determine my qualities as a person, this is what I used to think and what I used to share with people around me. However,...
Not too long ago, my son and I were the face of SNAP, hunger and poverty in Idaho
June 8, 2008, I remember the day vividly—the nurse practitioner told me I had Type 2 Diabetes. I argued with her that was not possible. I’m a nurse, I do...
Every Woman is Powerful
I believe that every woman is powerful, and just needs to explore her inner strengths. This is a story of an ordinary woman who opened her eyes in the very...
Life Advice from a Life Advice Addict
I am asked more often than I thought I would be how I got to where I am today. It’s a position I wouldn’t have believed I’d be in ten...
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...
Trauma
International Author Incest Survivor Breaks Generational Curse!
Trigger warning: Please be cautious when reading this post. It describes childhood sexual abuse. In October, 1998 watching Oprah's Family Secrets Show with my mother, I so wanted to tell...
SUNSHINE after PAIN and STRUGGLE
One thing I have come to realize is that there is only one me and I am awesome and wonderful even if I don't see it. Life can be painful...
Surviving: Made To Battle
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains descriptions of childhood rape and sexual assault. Hello my name is saida luvenia Mahoney I am 25 years...
Untitled
Hi, I am L. I am 14 and I am an attempt survivor. My reasons for it is my own but I want to talk about my journey with suicide...
My Raw Unfiltered Cleansing Truths
Learn to overcome my most difficult lifelong struggles. Change the way I think of myself and others. Those are my goals but in order to fix my problems I’ve begun...
I will survive
As a victim of child physical & mental sex abuse that with a cruel twist that happened with the family home that continued for 12 years until I managed to...
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Mom …
I am Vaishali Singh sharing story of my motherhood. Like every other girl i also had big dreams about my career but due to pregnancy complications ..i left my so...
Kijan nou ka simonte pè ki nan nou.
Kijan nou kapab simonte pè ki nan nou? *premyèman* Si ou vle ale lwen nan lavi ou fok ou kwè nan tèt ou.Chak ou doute de tèt ou,ou ap anpeche...
Fighting for Change
The past few weeks have been unsettling. First, Covid-19 forced us to stay at home, and we became masked-people. Then we witnessed on national TV the senseless murder of George...
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...
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...
Seeing a future after attempting suicide in grad school.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve struggled with anxiety. My earliest memory of it was in the first grade. I talked in class, trying to make a friend...