They say healthy love is scary if you’ve never seen it before. If only they knew you are the only one that I adore. I love your reasoning, it adds flavour to my being like seasoning. I love that you made it out of the jungle but continue to...
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!
My name is Lasaunia Thompson. I lived with a disease for 7 years that didn’t have a name. It came out of nowhere and was extremely painful. It came with painful wounds that would take well over a year to heal. It was so painful that...
Hi, I’d like to share my story about having anorexia for 22 years to help as many people as possible. I want to heal the world, and I hope sharing my story will do just that. I have quite the story to tell. My name is Kari Kluter...
I never knew my dad other than when I was a baby. My bio parents were both addicts and I lived with my grandparents. My mom was still in my life, even though I didn’t live with her and she was in rehab/treatment a lot, she was still a...
I witnessed domestic violence between my mother and her boyfriend every day from the age of 6 up until the age of 11. I witnessed brutal attacks, one time my mother actually stopped breathing. He was a very jealous man. He wanted me out the way...
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains descriptions of childhood rape and sexual assault. I was 5 when I lost my childhood. I had to come to terms with what life would be like without having the one thing...
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains references to childhood sexual assault. What happens when you try to cope and not feel? You break down and don’t heal. I wish I knew that information when I was...
The unspoken love I’d like to think I experienced the feeling of love even with the bad traits behind it there was still a precious little heart happy. The tears, the arguments, the fussing and fighting only lead me up to love you more...
‘Quitting is leading too’ is a thought-provoking Nelson Mandela quote that lends itself to my journey to early retirement from the United Nations (UN) in Vienna, Austria in November 2022 at the age of 55. Throughout 2023, there have...
My story is about someone I thought loved and cared about me as a daughter, but had been caught doing something I never thought anyone would do, especially to me.