When I started highschool I was in a mentally exhausting relationship, I was an honors/AP student and I started cheerleading. It was a lot, not only on my body, but also on my mind. I would...
Overcoming Adversity
Starting The Girls Empowerment Team
When I was in the fourth grade, I couldn’t look in the mirror and tell myself I was enough. That I was beautiful or fun to hang out with. No girls cared to include me in hangouts...
Finding me
My journey was long, the tears were nonstop, the pain was unbearable my heart had been too many times there were days I was too sad to get up to eat no one to talk to feeling all alone in...
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 of...
Don’t let your past define your future
My story starts as a young girl at the age of seven coming from a dysfunctional family that fell apart from the beginning. A mother who was mentally unstable with five children and a father...
Arriba de las nubes grises siempre habrá un cielo azul
Después de disfrutar de una adolescencia privilegiada dentro de los estándares de mi país, incluyendo mudarme a vivir a una ciudad a 4 horas de distancia de mi casa para asistir a una...
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 the United...
Carina’s journey
My name is Carina Imbrogno and I was born in 1974 in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Italian immigrants. I was born with a rare genetic disorder called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome kyphoscoliosis...
Can’t i have right to Dream
It will be a bit long story and cant be mention in the one line or one day. it will might take weeks to finish and life is still kept on going. Its a story of a Guy born in Pakistan and all...
I overcame and so can you!!!
Who am I? To tell you my life story would take a life time. Writing a book just won’t do!!! So where do I start??? I am fearfully and wonderfully made for one. I have faith that stands...