Category: Healing

WE Survive Abuse Book Club: The Quiet Zone
The Quiet Zone authored by Petal Kimberly SamuelThere is a kind of [...]

Maya Angelou Went Silent After Trauma. What Her Story Can Teach Us About Children Who Cannot Speak
There is something else we should remember when reading the childhood [...]

Trauma Does Not Always Look Like Trauma
We tend to imagine trauma as someone crying when they remember somethi [...]

đAllyship Doesn’t Come With a Dating Requirement â Your Body Was Never Part of the Deal
updated from June 9. 2025
It's so tricky out here these days...
Letâ [...]

Women Built These Spaces: 20 Historical Reasons Single-Sex Spaces Exist
Women have historically organized around power differently. Again and [...]

Shame Has Never Been a Substitute for Justice
I deeply despise stories that depict women finding their way t [...]

The Penthouse Lectures and the Ground Floor Reality
đĽ What Is Gaslighting? - WE Survive AbuseIt is a heavy thing t [...]

This Is Not Confusion. It Is Memory: Black Women, Language, and the Right to Self-Definition.
updated from June 2025
This history is not symbolic. It is sp [...]

Part 2: Why I Resist Diluted Language
But self-knowledgeBut self-knowledgeThe reason I refuse dilu [...]

You Deserve SafetyâEven When Youâre Just Trying to Keep Going
Some of us were never told that we deserved to feel safe.W [...]