Tonya GJ Prince

(For When You Can’t Fall Apart, But Can’t Keep Faking Either) 🎧 1. Use a “Voice Dump” App 📱 What to do: Open your voice recorder and just talk. No …

What to Do Instead of Faking It All the Time Some days, pretending to be okay feels safer than telling the truth. You already know what happens when you cry …

There comes a time when the world will keep handing you more work to do.More injustice to confront.More family pain to resolve.More people to carry. And often, they hand it …

We carry so much. Too much.And still, society dares to question our right to safety. Black women are consistently sent harmful messages—spoken and unspoken—about our value, our pain, and our …

Because grooming doesn’t stop at 18. It just gets harder to prove. We are taught to see grooming as something that happens to children.But many Survivors know the truth: Adults …

When the hands that claim to help you are the ones tightening the grip. Not all abuse comes from partners.Sometimes, it comes from systems—the courtroom, the school, the hospital, the …

  Because not all abuse leaves bruises—but it can still steal your freedom. Some cages are invisible.No bars.No bruises.Just a tightening around your life so slow and quiet, you don’t …

Let’s stop lying to Survivors. Let’s stop telling people who have lived through violation, abandonment, abuse, and neglect to just “push the plate away” like food is the problem—when safety …

Some of us are trying to bloom in gardens that were never planted for us. We show up with our hands full—bandages, truth-telling, receipts, prayers, statistics, candles, casseroles, court cases, …

  And the walls of that cage were built with silence, shame, and sanctioned suffering. There’s a dangerous myth floating around like perfume on poisoned air:That feminism was about women …