I can detect the scent all the time. The apartment stinks. The building stinks anyway – apartment blocks usually do. But our apartment is where I can smell that pungent, bitter smell...
Overcoming Adversity
My worst fear is becoming like my parents
Well, it all started when I was around 7. Both my parents are alcoholics and they started drinking. I didn’t fully understand what was going on, I was 7 years old. I remember going...
My healing journey.
I am going to tell you my full story. There’s several people who know different chapters of this, but not a single soul that’s ever known the whole thing. Why am I doing this...
My story of Inspiration
I am sharing my video of sexual abuse, trauma but most of all, strength.
The Power of Adversity, Grit and Intuition
Have you ever sat wondering, “how did I become this way?” Whether “this way” has a positive or negative emotion attached to it, it’s interesting to try and dig deep to make sense...
How being a cursed child & bullying turned me...
Chris Viviane M is name, I was Born in Rwanda, raised in Uganda because of the War which forced my family to escape from Rwanda. Before that, I’m from family of 6 children, five of them...
Mesh Lives Matter: Told I would “have to live...
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 urinary incontinence due to the births...
Just wanna have my little slice.
I wanted to write this story because maybe somewhere out in the world is a girl like me. A girl that grew up in a place that can only be compared to hell. A girl who got pregnant at 16 and...
I am not the child called it
I am a survivor. I was beaten by my mom’s husband for years. He was a nasty drunk. We feared weekends they were worse. Whatever he grabbed we were hit with and my mother was no...
The life of a Body dysmorphia sufferer
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it includes a graphic description of self-harm. For 11 years I have struggled with severe body dysmorphic disorder, I...