Category: Surviving Daily
When Courage Takes the Mic: Tish Hyman Speaks Truth to Leaders About Protecting Women and Children
She is facing opposition from all directions.
But, that doesn't alwa [...]
From Koketia King to Lisa Marie Riley: The Danger Didn’t End. It Just Changed Addresses.
In 2010, Florida boxer Yathomas Riley was arrested after his then-girl [...]
Lena Baker: The Innocent Woman America Executed | True Story of Injustice and Redemption
You have no business waiting for anyone to tell you that y [...]
🌱 If Stress Can Shrink Your Brain, Can Healing Grow It Back?
For years, people thought that once trauma reshaped the brain, the dam [...]
Why Are Women’s Demands for Boundaries and Safe Spaces Being Compared to Segregation?
Too many women—especially monitored, poor, rural, disabled, and older [...]
🌿 Healing Means Lowering Your Chaos Tolerance
Healing involves lowering chaos tolerance—not by becoming fragile, but [...]
🕯️ No Screening? No Safety.
“There is no screening process for the males who are allowed into wome [...]
🌿 Who Still Treats Women’s Safety as Sacred?
“When a woman says, ‘I don’t feel safe,’ she’s not creating a problem [...]
Gender Critical Thinkers: How Can We Speak of Freedom When So Many Women Still Can’t Speak at All?
A womanist does not enter this conversation as a spectator — we enter [...]
Why Do They Say We’re “Against Men” Just Because We Want to Be Safe?
Don’t fall for it.Promise yourself that you will not fall for it.
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If the Mind Believes What It Hears Most — What Are We Teaching It About Safety?
There’s a reason children learn the alphabet through songs.There’s [...]
You’re Not Broken. You Were Trained to Survive Chaos.
Some of us were raised in rooms where silence was survival.
Where [...]
💭 Why Do Women Always End Up Doing All the Emotional Work?
You’re not imagining it.
Every time peace needs patching, s [...]
When Women Must Explain Their Boundaries, Society Has Already Failed Them.
No male is explaining his right to boundaries, just women and girls. T [...]
What Happens When Women Fully Stop Performing Labor For the Male Gaze?
Words That Tried to Tame WomenFor generations, women have been sha [...]
Black Women Have Always Spoken Truth to Power — and We Still Will
In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination ar [...]
🌿 Faith, Healing, and the Work of Safe People
People who support Survivors—from all walks of life—should know th [...]
Twelve Steps to Danger: How Alcoholics Anonymous Can Be a Playground for Violence-Prone Members (from ProPublica)
Karla Brada Mendez thought that she was getting a second chance on lif [...]
“Why Are Women Still Told to Have Faith in Men Who ‘Rebrand’ Themselves?”
“If his change requires your suffering to prove it, it isn’t change [...]
“Why Do We Treat Male ‘Change’ Like a Sacred Revelation Instead of a Responsibility?”
A man "changes".Why do we women receive this as our "marching orde [...]