Category: Doing Better
What We’ve Carried Was Never Meant for Us
They taught us early how to carry it.
The silence.The secrets.The s [...]
🌿 Healing After Emotional Abuse: You Are Not Broken, You Are Becoming
Healing after emotional abuse isn't about "getting back to normal."It’ [...]
CLOSED FOR RIOTS: How One Black Woman Riots Against Racism
Update: This was published August 30, 2015. Remember that day? I [...]
A Journey to Finding Our Voices Through Personal Stories (podcast/audio)
Your Survivor story has the power to heal. On this episode of We Survi [...]
How Male Violence Taught Women & Girls to Attack One Another (audio)
In these very troubled days, a woman or girl reporting male viol [...]
Unmuting the Voices: Empowering Women and Girls to Break the Silencing Chains
You may have noticed that it is young women and girls who often shame [...]
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 be [...]
Critical Thinking for More Clarity and Safety
When it comes to violence and abuse, critical thinking is vitall [...]
MINK! — My Mom Fought For Title IX, but It Almost Didn’t Happen | Op-Docs
Original post: May 4, 2023They never wanted women and girls to have sa [...]
Survivor Affirmations: Fear Exists to Teach Us
Male human beings have no idea what what qualifies as [...]
How to Avoid Group Think Even During Extreme Change & Chaos (news & video roundup)
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US Congress Testimony: Girls To the Back
I was not surprised that Black women seemed to suggest that the [...]
Listen to Warnings from Girls
Updated for 2025Gwinnett Man Murdered Wife In Front Of Teen Son
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Monday Motivation: Finish 2023 Strong!
I know.......There is so much in this world to be sad and anxiou [...]
Keeping the Peace When Violence Around the World Escalates
Which Violence is Acceptable?Stress is known to affect individua [...]
When Violence Across the Globe Escalates, Who Supports Victims of Domestic Violence?
As conflict, violence, mass shootings, and other acts of terrorism inc [...]
The Art of Reflective Thinking in 8 Steps (with infographic)
I saw a woman share her very personal relationship story in a video th [...]
How Survivors Can Preserve the Lessons from Their Experiences for Storytelling
originally published 11/20/2015 To tell your story, you are going [...]
Sexual Violence Against Black Males: No Video, No Witnesses, and It IS Killing Them
updated from original post on 12/15/2015So last night I Twitter watche [...]
Heroines Among Us: Mom Transforms Garage to an Apartment for Daughter Fleeing From Abuse
We do what we must when the going gets dangerous and toxic. Appl [...]
