Category: Wisdom

6 Ways Asking for Help Enriches Your Life
I realize that in our society, it is almost fashionable to come down o [...]

6 Ways Asking for Help Enriches Your Life
I realize that in our society, it is almost fashionable to come down o [...]
🔥 When They Take It All Back: Why Some Survivors Recant
Updated for WeSurviveAbuse.com, 2025
Let’s return to this uncomfo [...]
The Book I Avoided—Until I Couldn’t Anymore
By a Survivor Who Now Understands Why the Caged Bird Sings
I’ve [...]
7 Ways Survivors Can Embrace Authenticity and Present Yourself Honestly:
*updated for 2025
Dear LORD, Please Bless Us All—Because This Is Me. [...]

Survivor Affirmation: I Can Make a Difference!
I can make a difference I have the ability to make a difference. I hav [...]

10 Excellent Memoirs about the Sexual Violence Survivor's Journey
Glad to see that we are in a season of listening to the powerful voice [...]

Part 2 Good Talk: 7 Ways Counseling Helps Survivors of Abuse to Heal
Counseling is not a weakness. It’s a warrior’s wisdom.It’s how [...]
⚠️ Trigger Warning: Child Sexual Abuse, Victim-Blaming
Updated for 2025Updated from 2016: I was watchin [...]

How Some Teachers Are on the Frontlines of Fighting Child Sexual Abuse
Did you know that some victims of child sexual abuse prefer to confi [...]

Songs Survivors Play to Survive Disaster
I TriedOne day years ago I was trying to make it through a ch [...]

Explain Like I'm 5: What victims of domestic violence go through to get justice
I originally posted this on 9/3/15. On 5/16/2016 I aided a victim in D [...]

Survivor Affirmation: I Value Wise Counseling
I value wise counseling.In times of confusion, wise words enable me to [...]
🛑 The Very Idea: Boundaries for Survivors
The Very Idea
People used to walk all over my boundaries.
And [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Whispered Civil Rights Movement Secrets: Fannie Lou Hamer the Truth Teller
There are people—loud and determined—who would have you believe [...]

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