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Message to a Survivor
They can steal our bodies. They can try to take what will never be theirs. But they cannot and will not EVER break our spirit. Know that your healing is within YOUR control and you have all that you need within you to take your power back. You are not alone. You are not unworthy of the best things. You are brave. You are beautiful. You are healing. You are loved.
Message of Healing
Healing means taking every moment of the day loving yourself through it. Giving yourself grace and patience to feel those big a** feelings and be okay not being okay. Healing is realiZing you are no longer accepting “victim” as your label & seeing yourself for the warrior and survivor you are. Healing is loving those pieces other broke and investing yourself in building a new foundation. Healing to me means messy but worth all the blood, sweat, and tears.
At 13 my mom and her husband were out of town on a business trip. I was supposed to stay at my dads but he wasn’t to be home for a time. My boyfriend at the time was 15. And like the naïve young girl I was I allowed him to our home. He coerced me into showing him my room. Then proceeded to force me into my bed. I told him no over and over and over again.....eventually I said yes. I couldn’t move. Couldn’t escape. I just complied. I have never considered that the day I lost my virginity. I consider it a day that someone stole something that was most sacred to me. — He had the audacity to try and contact me 3 years ago out of the blue. 14 years after he raped me. As if it never happened.....I have been sexually assaulted/physically assaulted by men who wouldn’t take no for an answer 6 times in my life. I hold no trust in men and feel that they all want something from me, just my existence is enough.
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