Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains references to rape. “have courage & be kind” when I was young I was bullied for a very long time throughout the whole of my childhood, it started at...
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!
Jacqueline City is a 24 year old disabled fashion designer and CEO of Jacqueline City Apparel. City suffers from dysautonomia and POTS as well as heart disease and PTSD. When her health was at its worst, City lost 50 pounds and was left...
My life was doomed from the beginning. My parents dropped out of school 2 weeks before they graduated ran off and started having kids. It just so happened I was the second. Right then was where my life would become hard. I am one of three...
Okay, so I’ll begin with telling you all that as a kid i was an introvert kid, a kid who is too shy in class or any occasion, so in my school life till grade 7 i never had a genuine close friend as i wasn’t really a socialized...
When I was 21, I met a guy who was dumped by my best girlfriend. Maybe out of pity or karma from my previous life, I was the first to pursue after him. Throughout our relationship, I was the one paying for meals and almost every other thing...
I feel alone, distraught, mad, misunderstood and just frustrated with life and my family. I don’t feel heard. I feel invisible. I thought I was just the fat girl that was shy so nobody wanted to be around me or not for long anyway. I grew...
Grown up in a society where i had to give up my desires of marrying someone whom i love, and especially race and caste mattered even if they agreed. I’m just another brown girl to a family that cared about the socio-religous norms more...
My story before being more butterfly: I always come back to the same story in my life. When I was very young at primary school I started getting bullied by the girls in my class. They would stop me from playing, shout obscenities at me and try...
This is a story about a girl who loved with all her heart. No matter what and no matter what the outcome was. Ever since she can remember her mother and every1 who ever got close 2 her felt the need 2 protect her at all cost. What was it about...
I looked up this novel on my dad’s phone when I shouldn’t have. I did this in secret. I feel guilty now. It was about, “Star Trek.” He wasn’t too happy about it. That was his private phone. I can’t go on his...