Category: Safety
The Delay Is the Damage: How Abusers Use Time to Their Advantage
from WESurviveAbuse.com
The truth about violence and abuse rarely r [...]
Consent Never Came, But the Agreement Was Made
from WESurviveAbuse.com
No one asked her.No one asked the girl with t [...]
🎯 Pattern Denial: The Sinister Art of Pretending Not to Know
Some truths are not too complex to understand—they're just too inconve [...]
They Weren’t Just Controlling—They Were Consuming
Survivors often face: the coercion to disappear inside someone else’s [...]
🛑 When Children Are Punished for Feeling, They Learn to Go Along with Harm
There’s something we don’t talk about nearly enough:
When children ar [...]
Lobotomies and Trust Issues: The Historic Reasons Black Folks Avoid Therapy (w/links)
Listen, followers of my work know that I have been open about getting [...]
🕯️ The Truth About “Victimhood” as an Insult
There is a lot going on in the world. But crimes against women—especia [...]
The Tender Hands the World Must Never Forget
The Richard Speck murders had a deep and lasting impact on how Americ [...]
How Women’s Pain Is Minimized to Keep Men Comfortable
If there were no men in the room,no men in the equation,no men to prot [...]
Teaching Tales: Three Women Who Faced Injustice and Fought Back with Truth
Some betrayals are personal.Some are legal.Some are spiritual.But when [...]
Her Name Is Mary Turner. Her Story Still Speaks.
We can’t have an honest conversation about why our grandmothers—and th [...]
🤲🏽 What Is Self-Trust? (And Why Is It So Hard After Abuse?)
Self-trust is the sacred belief that your own voice is worth listening [...]
Unloving the People We’re Told to Never Give Up On
“But That’s Your Family…”
There’s a sacred pain that often goes unn [...]
🌬️ Benediction for the Journey: On Letting Go
Letting go is not weakness.Letting go is not failure.Letting go is not [...]
Boundaries Are Sacred: Honoring the Line Between Survival and Self-Betrayal
Boundaries aren’t walls.They’re doors you open for love — and shut to [...]
🌸 Trusting Yourself Again After Abuse: A Return to Your Inner Knowing
When you’ve survived abuse — especially the kind that twists your real [...]
No One is Like Us. Women Fight Differently
Women fight differently.
When the Taliban ordered Afghan women not [...]
Violence Against Women Always Looks for an Inside Woman
Like most acts of violence against women,invasion of boundaries doesn’ [...]
Sisterhood Isn’t a Cage: Reject the Love Bombs That Protect Male Violence
Some women will drench you in compliments, promises, and affection —no [...]
Where Coercion Is the Law, Truth Cannot Live
Where coercion is the law, truth cannot live.
When the rules are writ [...]
