Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains references to childhood rape and other experiences of sexual assault. I was 9 and homeless, living in a farmhouse...
Speaking Your Truth
Groat
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My Story
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Seeking Help!!!
The experience, clueless, helpless and heartbreaking one at that, I had as a 15 year old led to a strong lifetime belief!!! I will never approach anyone for help of any sorts ever in life...
foster care
The first time I felt the heaviness of the handcuffs digging into my small wrists, the cool metal biting into her skin. i sat in the back of the police car, the engine’s hum filling...
I don’t want my dad to love me.
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Expressing happiness… ?
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Resilient: A Survivor’s Path to Triumph
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Youthful regrets
This is a sad story. But it can make smn else’s story better. It a story about two people who were too afraid to tell each other how they felt. The world crashed down and they still...
My Story
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