Feeling Empowered

Healing is a Journey, Life is a Journey, Trauma Recovery is a Journey; as survivors and well, as human beings, the idea of embracing the journey is very common. The key is to keep in…

As a person who has spent his entire life being sensitive, both towards myself and others, I can certainly relate to this guest blog post by regular guest blogger, Rose. I was often ridiculed as…

That is an amazingly powerful statement, but also equally difficult to embrace for abuse survivors. To take it a step further, even for those that aren’t abuse survivors, drawing a line of not letting someone…

I’ve embarked on a new crusade in my daily life, something I had never done before previously with any type of consistency whatsoever. That is, finding something, at least 1 thing, and sometimes only 1…

As I was writing this post, I was trying to come up with a suitable title for it, something to capture the essence of being an abuse survivor but still chasing after your dreams in…

We’ve all heard these types of catch phrases before, “Walking your Talk” or “Practice what you Preach”. Of course, these mean simply to put in practice, on a daily basis, what you talk about doing. “Mean what…

This guest post comes courtesy of Morgan, who writes about her triumphs and struggles in her day to day life with mental illness. She describes herself as: I’m a salty soul, happy anywhere I can see the…

This question was posed to me recently during a chat with a colleague…do you feel that you shame yourself or feel guilty for what you’ve experienced in your life? I paused for a bit and…