Category: Healing

Survivor Affirmation: I Value Wise Counseling
I value wise counseling.In times of confusion, wise words enable me to [...]

🛑 When “Being Nice” Becomes Dangerous: Reclaiming Boundaries After Trauma
The Very Idea
For years, people walked all over my boundaries.
An [...]

Affirmation: I Am My Own Unique Self-Special, Creative, and Wonderful
updated for 2025
✨ Affirmation: I Am My Own Unique Self
I am my [...]

Pregnancy, Panic, and the Past: Supporting Survivors Through the Miracle of Birth
*Updated for 2025
When a close relative—let’s call her Morgan [...]

What the Church and People of Faith Can Do to Help Victims of Sexual and Domestic Violence
Updated 8 21 2025
original March 2016Ab [...]

No Gratitude, No Quilt: A Lesson from My Mama (and a Little Fried Chicken)
*Updated for 2025Several months ago, my mom asked me to pick [...]

What Racists and Child Rape Apologists Have in Common
Seems like all you have to do is make one simple statement:The problem [...]

🔊 The Right to Speak: What a Difference a Voice Makes
Updated for 2025Silence
“You have the right to remain silent.”
I [...]

High Five From WESurvive: Lavon Morris Grant A Spiritual Miracle
In early 2002 or so a group of us Women of Color working in sexual and [...]

The Benefit of Anger for Survivors: A Fire That Heals
For too long, Survivors have been told to suppress their anger. “Be [...]