Speaking Your Truth

From the Ashes…… I Rise

“Where are you?”, this is the kind of a conversation i have with myself every morning , my mornings have become so tough, this is what happens after 5 years of running a...

Let yourself heal

Growing up, I lived with my grandparents. I couldn’t tell them anything. I’d always feel like they would judge me. My brother was the only one that would be there for me, who...

the story that changed my life

March 7th was a kind of bad day. Everything was going so well in school until lunch when my ex-boyfriend’s girlfriend was arguing with me about him. When I saw him, I laughed in my...

The Smart Girl

My freshman year of high school, I wanted to stop caring. I was so burnt-out, trying to be the perfect student. I had straight A’s, got 100s on nearly every test, hated myself if I got...

Should I leave or stay

Hi I’m sweety I’m from a middle class family I am a nurse. A year ago I got married and it was an arrange marriage everything was good. But after marriage I came to know the...

B 4 I go

I was a special Ed child, hyper. I pray to God that I was sorry for the mean things I done. 1 st I had teen pregnancy. I got married,in a wrong relationship,b cause I didn’t know. I...

Growing up as a diamond in the rough

Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains descriptions of childhood sexual molestation and assault. I am a 29-year-old woman, born in Oakland, California...

My childhood sexual abuse story.

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...

Groat

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