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...
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!
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...
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains descriptions and details of self-harm. Tw*self-harm* please do not harm yourself in any way I want to tell you my story of why I self harmed* In September of 2022 I...
My mom met my stepfather when I was 4 1/2 almost 5 years old she met him in 2009 got engaged in 2010 and has been engaged since then. He basically raised me because my father moved states. That’s not the point of the story though, you may be...
I was sexually abused at the age of three up to ten, I went through something so traumatizing that I don’t wish on anyone even if it was my worst enemy. I’ve dealt with PTSD, trauma, depression, anxiety, scared of the world, I was always in...
My life changed as a soul when I chose to come into this lifetime on Earth. I have felt unworthiness, inadequacy, unappreciated, separation and mostly not enough for who I am my entire life for 32 years. Growing up in Japan as mixed race was...