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AFFIRMATIONS AND SELF LOVE
Our Rights Are Not Disposable
Women's rights are not up for elimination.Not now. Not ever.
Our rights are not conditional based on someone else's discomfort.They are [...]
IN THE NEWS
Zainab Jama Is the Voice So Many Girls Have Been Waiting For
Zainab Jama, Miss World Somalia 2025, is not just a beauty queen—She is a truth-teller.A torchbearer.A fierce, unflinching voice for girls the world [...]
“Why Is Women’s Health Still Being Ignored by Mainstream Medicine?”
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That Time the Media Blamed & Shamed a Teenage Human Trafficking Victim
Consensual sex and sexual violence are two very different interactions between human beings. Sexual violence takes intentional study, experienc [...]
HEALING

Who Really Benefits from DEI? It’s Not Just Who You Think
One of my clients as an Independent Living Coordinator was a young white teenager working his very first job. His loving, protective, and attentive f [...]

When Healing Language Gets Mocked: Gaslighting by Cultural Delegitimization
They asked you to speak. Or, it is time and space designed for speaking.
To be honest. To open up. To tell your truth.
They asked you to join gro [...]

The “Helper” Mandate is Hurting Us
It whispers to Black people—especially Black women —that we are here to help.To soothe.To teach.To forgive.To make the world softer for others, even w [...]
WE Survive Abuse Podcast Episodes
The Gift of Access to YOU (audio/podcast)
This episode unpacks how those lessons of survival can linger into adulthood, making us feel like we owe access to anyone who asks.....How often [...]
As a Woman, You May Find It Challenging to Stand Up for Yourself If..(video & audio)
“I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.”
– Maya Angelou
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An Infographic Explanation of the Word “No” (infographic) w/ audio
🚩Because people who can't take "no" for an answer aren't known to be the safest people to keep company with.Teen Version Because grown men wh [...]
The Power of Unapologetic Truth: Fannie Lou Hamer and Zora Neale Hurston (audio/podcast)
In this episode of We Survive Abuse, we explore how women like Fannie Lou Hamer and Zora Neale Hurston resisted the systemic micromanagement of [...]
A Journey to Finding Our Voices Through Personal Stories (podcast/audio)
Your Survivor story has the power to heal. On this episode of We Survive Abuse, Tonya GJ Prince reveals how sharing our truths can empower others to d [...]
My Health and Safety Matters Too: Why “Assigned Female at Birth” Sparks Backlash
Explore why women's rights groups argue that this phrase not only diminishes the lived experiences of women but also risks erasing the realities [...]
Women Taint Nobody's Business Who You Choose to Love (audio)
Women Tain't Nobody's Business Who You Choose To Love [...]
Speaking Truth for Girls in a World that Prefers Silence (audio)
Welcome to We Survive Abuse—a powerful, unapologetic space where Survivors’ voices take center stage. Hosted by Tonya GJ Prince, a veteran advocate wi [...]
The Magic Trick: How Grooming Feels in the Beginning
They welcome you in with warmth, with open arms. They set the table with love, dignity, and safety—just long enough for you to believe it's real [...]
LOVING SAFELY
The Pain They Tell You to Swallow: On Disrespect, Dehumanization, and the Lie of Strength
They say, “Now’s not the time.”They say, “It’s not that serious.”They say, “Be the bigger person.”They say, “Other people have it worse.”
A [...]
10 Sacred Truths for Black Women Who Are Tired of Carrying the World
1. You are not a beast of burden.The world will try to make you one. It will pile its sins, mistakes, and unhealed wounds onto your back. [...]
“Why Do Her Posts Always Seem to Reassure Men, Not Women?”
First of all, before I say anything else, for your own survival, believe her. You are growing awareness of who benefits from these declarati [...]
CHILDREN DESERVE SAFETY
Unveiling the Sneaky Strategies of Child Predators: Protect Your Child with these Expert Insights
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BECAUSE SHE IS SOMEONE
The Media Is Teaching Women to Be Silent About Violence. Even Women in Media.
We need to name it.
The media—mainstream and social—isn't just failing to protect women.It's teaching us to b [...]
Predators Are Not Always Charismatic—Don’t Be Fooled by the Stereotype
Many people have a picture in their minds of what a predator looks like: charming, confident, manipulative, al [...]
Unmasking Abuse by Proxy
Abuse by proxy isn’t only used by individuals—it is also wielded by organizations, well funded interest grou [...]
Stay Woke: When a Warning is Turned to a Punchline
Watching language warning about life or death flatten into a "trend".... is frustrating. “‘Stay wo [...]
LEGAL/COURTROOM

We Do Not Have the Privilege of Forgetting. But the World Wants Us To.
Every single day, women are surviving things that many refuse to name.Small things. Quiet things. Daily things. Deadly things.And somehow, we’re still [...]

Unburdened: Breaking the Chains of Servitude and Reclaiming Rest for Black Women
Breaking these chains requires a multi-layered approach that includes self-liberation, community support, and cultural shifts. Black women can break [...]

Stop Shaming Women for Protecting Themselves
Too often, when a woman dares to speak up about her own safety needs, she is shamed. Other women tell her she’s “overreacting,” “paranoid,” or “making [...]
HERSTORY/HISTORY
The Judds: When Healing Isn’t Pretty
When I watched Love Can Build a Bridge on Lifetime, I wasn’t expecting the emotions and the new insights.
The documentary told the story of The Jud [...]
📺 Television Is Not Liberation
(No matter how many awards, episodes, or characters say otherwise)🎭 Television Is Entertainment—Not Protection
TV is not systemic c [...]
ART IS HEALING

UnSilenced: Betty White
In the 1950s, a period marked by segregation and racial discrimination, Betty White made a bold move on her variety show, "T [...]

Favorite Memoirs and Reads on Abuse, Rape, & Violence: Tonya GJ Prince
Greetings Readers,Books are a critical element to healing and understanding violence,
rape, and abuse. Book recommen [...]

The Truth From Pam and Aunt Esther: Naming the Disrespect Women Were Taught To Ignore
There are men who speak to women with deep disrespect — regularly.
And we rarely show it honestly.
Some folks will get off [...]

Book: Beat Face, The Story of Surviving Myself and My Abuser
This author and I follow one another on social media. I once complimented her for being "chameleon" like. Her lo [...]

The Natural Hair Movement Cicely Tyson Inspired | Oprah’s Master Class | Oprah Winfrey Network
When Cicely Tyson wore her hair natural on national television in the 1960s, it wasn’t just a style—it was a statement of se [...]

🎤💰 Money, Respect & the Woman’s Mic: Black Women’s Songs About Money, Power, and Respect
About money. About love. About what it means to be valued.
This is not a new conversation.
Long before internet debates [...]

Power UP! Lauryn Hill and Doechi at Jazz in the Gardens
updated from March 9 2025
You didn't ignore the neighborhood strays when you were sitting out on the porch. At firs [...]

The Truth That Heals Podcast: Exit’s Director Alison Jayne Wilson
You can watch EXIT on Amazon Prime in the US. [...]

Songs Survivors Play to Survive Disaster
I TriedOne day years ago I was trying to make it through a challenge.
In order to get through it I came up with [...]

Losing Three Icons, Carrying Their Light: The Power of Musical Legacy
Angie Stone’s Music Pulled Us Through—And Now, She’s Gone.Angie Stone has passed, and somehow, it still doesn’t feel rea [...]

How Survivors Can Preserve the Lessons from Their Experiences for Storytelling
originally published 11/20/2015 To tell your story, you are going to need the details of your stories. No one can tell [...]

I Will Survive: How Survivor Gloria Gaynor Keeps Inspiring Decades After the Release of Grammy Winning Song
originally published 2/8/ 2016At First I Was Afraid... When we have been wounded we must heal. To do that, I think we [...]
THE SHOP
🌿 My Self-Soothe Journal
🌿 My Self-Soothe Journal
A Sacred Space to Tend to Your Spirit, Breath by Breath
There are moments when the world feels too loud… and your nervous [...]



















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