The world doesn’t chase what’s ordinary.It only tries to contain what shines. When you find yourself picked apart, ridiculed, or shut out,remember — people don’t spend energy trying to bury …
Faith/Spirituality
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They Hope You Never Realize How Powerful You Already Are
🌹 They Hope You Don’t See It There is something they hope you never realize.Something that terrifies them. It’s not your weakness.It’s your power. For someone to have privilege, position, …
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Protecting Your Spirit: What Spiritual Boundaries Are and Why They Matter
For people who work with and serve victims of violence and abuse, violation of spiritual boundaries is common. I have seen women’s entire families go against them to support an …
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Even Warriors Need a Well: Faith, Feminism, and the Right to Refuel (w/affirmations)
People may mean well. But to insist that women fighting for justice — especially women working to protect other women — must also abandon faith, spirit, or prayer?That’s not progress.That’s …
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Faith & Fire: Black Women Who Knew God and Justice Could Share the Same Space
They’ll tell you that you can’t be a woman of faith and a feminist. That believing in God somehow means you must stay silent, small, or submissive.That faith and feminism …
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They Called It Victimhood. I Call It Rising.
After abuse, it’s common to be met with silence when you’re hurting — and then judgment when you begin to glow. They did not think this part through when they …
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The Gish Gallop: When Overload Becomes a Weapon Against Survivors
There’s a tactic that shows up in debates, politics, in online videos, and—far too often—in the lives of Survivors. It’s called the Gish Gallop. The Gish Gallop happens when someone …
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Courtney Stodden’s Lifetime Movie Exposes the Public Grooming of a Child Bride—and the Cruelty of Celebrity Culture
I wasn’t deeply familiar with this young woman prior to watching the Lifetime movie. I’m a bit out of her target age range. But being a teenager and then enjoying …
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Why Women Should Fear Less About Being Called “Outsiders”
The Power of Being Labeled an Outsider History shows us that women who were labeled “outsiders” often became the very women who changed the world. From Sojourner Truth to Anna …
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Changing Restrooms, Changing Questions: What You Should Know
How come they can build these things that bring men in closer proximity to women and children but not more homes for the unhoused, affordable homes for working class folks, …