Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to be a pilot. Growing up just 20 minutes away from Frankfurt Airport I would spend hours watching the aircraft doing their holding patterns over our backyard. When I was seven years old a friend of mine...
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 descriptions of childhood sexual molestation. I was molested at year 8 (12) by a year 11 (16). It happened everyday for a month, it may not seem as much, but for a...
I am STRONG AND BEAUTIFUL INSIDE AND OUT, AND SO ARE YOU!! As I grow older day by day, I find out more about my gender. The choices that we get to make and the power we have is not as much the power and freedom the males have. How the things we...
I am a 44 year old woman. I asked a lot of questions as a girl because I always wanted to learn and know more, and remember being told to be quiet, to stop asking questions. I was a natural leader as a girl and wanted to be in charge, and...
Hi. I’m Rohannie. A single mom to a very beautiful baby girl. I want to share my story here because I really have no one to talk to. I got pregnant when I was 20 years old. I was 21 when my baby was born. I just graduated from college and...
The girl with no face could tell no lies because she had no mouth to tell them with. Everyone said she was fine but no one knew the truth. So one day a man asked the girl with no face is she was okay, and the girl nodded her head yes. But...
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains references to childhood rape, other forms of violence and abuse. when I was a toddler I was molested, beaten, starved, and basically tortured. I was drowned, forced to...
I am a drummer from Iraq. Playing music or doing any music activity professionally as an Iraqi is a dangerous thing to do. Some people had their lives threatened for teaching music or being musicians yet we could still play music at home or at...
I have a very sad story to share.please don’t cry or feel sorry for me after reading this.I am not angry or sad with anyone,I just wanna ask god ..why did you do this to me,what had I done to suffer so much. So here is my story.i am a...
It’s been said that the higher you fly, the harder you fall…Unfortunately, I never really, understood the intensity behind this phrase. Now, as I lie crippled in the dark, injured, trembling and uncontrollably sobbing from the pain...