Domestic Violence / Intimate Partner Violence

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 live with the one who I thought was...

My trilogy

“I grew up in a home where love and support were scarce. My dad’s words still echo in my mind: ‘You’re useless.’ The physical pain from his beatings was...

Just my life

Always i have been the most quiet kid in my family. My mon told me how i never disturbed her when i was a baby and i didnt cry much.Well i can tell this afected me in my life. i grew up...

Untitled

Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains references to childhood sexual abuse. I was molested as a child by my grandfather. I’m the one who came out...

Thriving In The Midst of Challenges

Hello, My name is Dr. Cornelia Gibson and I am a licensed marriage and family therapist in CA. I am the founder and clinical director of Agape Counseling Center and Network in Fairfield, CA...

Healing after a childhood of trauma

Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains descriptions of childhood sexual molestation. It is very difficult to describe my childhood as even thinking...

BOOZING

I want young women to take from my story that you shouldn’t forgive all the time. You can give people a chance, but afterwards, if you see that there is no change, that there is nothing...

Never Stop searching for your purpose.

Hi My name is Chris but my friends call me Chrissie. This is my story…. I am one of 5 children 2 sisters, 2 brothers, I am the middle child. Growing up I was a teen mom that broke...

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 flee and escape when I was 14...