When you’re young you have your whole life ahead of you and it is only you that decides what your future will hold. All you have is school, your family and your friends. You don’t expect your life to change when you’re only...
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!
PODCAST: #ThePowerOfYourStory Podcast is an interview series with women from around the world, a collaboration between Girls’ Globe and SayItForward.org. In this first episode, Julia Wiklander, founder of Girls’ Globe, talks with Sharon...
Hi I’m Lilly here’s my story. So when I was fourteen years old my dad died my mom started to flirt with a guy named Brian. When I was fourteen I was one of the most beautiful people, so when Brian came over I had to go outside. One...
“Hush Little Baby” “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.” This Norman Rockwellish southern bedtime ritual anticipates the cooing of a mother’s warm kiss upon her son’s sweaty brow in the...
this is me ,noor , a empty soul , a dummy , a coward , a girl with zero potential . i am empty ,i dont have freinds ,i dont know how to make freinds ,i have no confidence ,i want to live like other people live ,i dont know ho people are happy...
On a clear Georgia day with a slight western breeze, playing in the back yard with his trusted and beloved cocker spaniel, Lucky. A soft landing from a tumble and he’s back up from his skinned knees – “look-at-me, Im ok,” just a...
I am a Survivor of family/relationship trauma. Mother was abused by my father for 15 years and I growing up in a home where violence was prevelant swore I would never be a victim. However, as young as three years old I can remember being...
Hi my name is Jules Let me give you some background information about me before I start this story. I went to a Christian school. I had some friends but not many. This started when I was in fifth grade. The boy who bullied me was two years...
Growing up was hard for me. When a baby is born you don’t except something wrong with it but for me it was different. I was born hard of hearing and I hate it. You see hard of hearing means you can’t hear well..So I had to get hearing aids...
I’ve been having dreams about my kids every night for the last few weeks. They’re college students in their twenties, but in my dreams, they’re toddlers again. In last nights dream I was vaguely protecting the toddler versions of them...