Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains a reference to rape. My story starts when as a girl I was not encouraged to succeed. But I was an A+ STUDENT. ALSO A REALLY GOOD artist 🎨. In HS a large newspaper...
Stories
Every woman and every girl inspires us. We are deeply grateful to those who have shared their stories about breakthroughs in their lives, the ways in which they have overcome fears, beliefs, or events that once kept them from connecting with their inner strength and recognizing their amazingness. Some of these stories are stories of pain and how a women or girl triumphed over it. As you read these stories, rather than focusing on the pain, choose to focus instead on the triumph and the ways that others have overcome what may once have seemed impossible to overcome. Let's celebrate their triumphs!
Leading up to the year of me going to high school I remember experiencing feelings such as excitement, curiosity and gratitude, and contentment. Little did I know that would not be the case for most of my high school career. Attending an elite...
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains descriptions of childhood sexual molestation and assault. I was born in Italy but my parents are Chinese, everyone in my class knows me for me for my incredible...
Mahwash Athar from Islamabad Pakistan. Just After I did my Graduation my parents arrange my marriage. I went to Karachi Pakistan as my ex husband resident of Karachi. I lived in joint family system. He was not educated, run family business and...
After high school, I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. I was really lost. I knew I wanted to make something of myself. My dad was in the Navy and I knew I wanted to make a difference in the world. When I was 18, I decided to join...
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains references to childhood sexual assault and descriptions of self-harm. i just want someone to know, someone random to just read and know what happened. i was nine years...
pushings people away is never the answer when i was in the most pain i pushed my family and friends away knowing they wanted to help me but when im sick and tired of hearing is im so sorry im sorry for your lost but knowing dang well they...
my sharing is a story of showing the incredible strength of a young girl who just wanted to live…. and has escaped horrific abuse and brutality as a an 18 year old and built myself from scratch. yeah, this is true, I left it behind in...
It was Christmas night, 2022 and I was drunk, laying in bed and thinking about the guy who had ghosted me 2 weeks ago. I thought to myself, he would always beg me to send him things (the worst possible thing a girl could send a guy) and I...
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains a reference to childhood sexual abuse. You grew up in a rough childhood surrounded by people who seemed to revel in evil. Your parents were involved with bikies, drugs...