Trauma Survivors Blog

If you are wondering whether you caused the abuse, I want to say this clearly before anything else. You didn’t.Nothing you did caused someone else to choose abuse.

The truth about what healing felt like to me, verses what I expected.

If you’ve ever been told to “just move on,” you know how heavy that pressure feels. It can feel like people are telling you that your...

Healing isn’t always dramatic or exciting. Sometimes it feels quiet, uneventful, even a little boring and that’s actually a good sign. Boring means your nervous system is settling, your routines are holding, and you’re building a life that doesn’t need constant chaos to feel alive.

“I was sexually assaulted two nights ago. I want to get Plan B and have a blood panel ran.” That’s all I said. My tone was emotionless....