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What I Wanna Tell You When You Say ‘Get Over It’. {poetry}

You think I should just move on, or stop talking. I'm talking for all the children who don't have a voice. And all the babies who feel horrified at their own face, reflected back at them by parents who don't know how to love. And this is a prayer that every single abused child gets to have ...

world

Orlando: This Is how It Lands in Me.

When I was a teenager, just starting to question, there was a horrific crime committed in my hometown where two brothers broke into the house of a gay couple and murdered them while they slept in their bed. I believed then that it would never be safe for me to be out. As a teenager, I expected ...

you & me

Happy Sex After Rape: My Search for Pleasure After Trauma.

I am not writing this as a professional sex therapist. While I am trained and certified in various fields of therapy, I am writing this as a woman who has blossomed and is still blossoming after sexual trauma. I am writing this as a woman who is a sexual being, and was a sexual being before she ...

sex

From Shiver to Quiver, Dust to Lust.

I wonder what it’s like in your head, not just in your bed, where orgasms preside and emotional baggage is checked at the door. The bed you enter in the dark like a tornado, and escape from in the light like an illuminating lightning storm. The kind of storm one wants to get close to because of ...

wisdom

Standing on My Own Two Feet.

Any event, small or big, can have a greatly traumatic or vital effect on our lives. The severity does not depend on the size of the event, rather on the emotional impact it has on each of us, and how we experience it. What can be highly traumatic for one can be nothing for another.

troublemakers

I’m Not Running Away from Myself Anymore.

I never really understood why certain men were fascinated by me. I’m not talking about those who wanted to destroy an inner piece of me, you know, by taking advantage of the fact that I was easy. And that’s the thing: I was easy. Given the right time and moment, you could have had me like ...

you & me

Withdrawing From The Troops Of My Own Torment.

There was a point in time, a while after I had suffered a trauma when I felt as if I had been placed into the water, sinking into the truth that I was not free from the processing of events that had laid bricks one by one upon my hands that I would extend out in belief like the spirit of a ...

art

Finding Her Way To Feel Again — Guilt-Free.

She wanted to make a difference in other people’s lives, and was inspired by a program offered by Landessportbund (an institution governed by the state of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany) to empower young girls, teaching them self-defense and instilling in them awareness about self-assertion. ...

wisdom

Get Rid Of Your Splinters Of Self-Condemnation.

If you're a woman, perhaps you've been storing shameful experiences in your uterus. Where do you hide your shame? Take a moment and check into it. You’ll get your answer. You might find that you have chronic health issues in the places where you store it. What’s the shame about? Why is it so ...

art

I Am More Than Just My Trauma: Life As Victims Of War Crime In Croatia.

She suggests that the society needs to change from its roots, and she believes that faith can be that agent of change. When she was awaiting her perpetrators' court proceedings, she at some point had to hand over her fears and worries to God to pull her through a grueling 12 years of court battles.

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