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  • 47 and Finally Free: The Year I Stopped Living for Everyone Else

    47 and Finally Free: The Year I Stopped Living for Everyone Else

    At 47, Larissa Rhone stopped living for others and started choosing herself. A powerful reflection on healing, purpose, and defiant self-trust. Read more

  • 47 & Still Standing: The Year I Chose to Start Fully

    47 & Still Standing: The Year I Chose to Start Fully

    At 47, I’m proof that God’s mercy defies logic. This isn’t about starting over, it’s about starting fully, walking boldly, and living on purpose. Read more

  • Working With Your Nervous System, Not Against It – Part 2 of 2

    Working With Your Nervous System, Not Against It – Part 2 of 2

    Exhaustion, shutdown, and dissociation aren’t proof of failure, they’re survival strategies. Part 2 of this reflection explores how to work with your nervous system instead of against it. Read more

  • Rebuilding Trust in Your Physical Responses: Learning to Listen to Your Body After Trauma

    Rebuilding Trust in Your Physical Responses: Learning to Listen to Your Body After Trauma

    Many survivors mistake panic and hypervigilance as flaws, but they’re your body’s way of protecting you. Learn how to rebuild trust in your physical responses, because your body isn’t broken, it remembers. Read more

  • How I Stayed Alive When I Didn’t Want To: The Real Story Behind Three Failed Suicide Attempts

    How I Stayed Alive When I Didn’t Want To: The Real Story Behind Three Failed Suicide Attempts

    Truth is, it’s not why I stayed alive. It’s how. Three attempts. Three times God said, ‘Not yet.’ Please stay. We need you here. Read more

  • Listening to Your Inner Signals: Relearning to Trust Your Body

    Listening to Your Inner Signals: Relearning to Trust Your Body

    Dear Survivor, your body is not a liar. It’s been protecting you all along. Healing begins when you learn to trust its signals again. Read more

  • From Silence to Self-Trust: A New Chapter in the Journey

    From Silence to Self-Trust: A New Chapter in the Journey

    Silence was the first step. Self-trust is the next. After abuse, learning to believe your voice, your instincts, and your worth is often the hardest part of healing. Here’s how we begin. Read more

  • September Is Sickle Cell Awareness Month.

    September Is Sickle Cell Awareness Month.

    Sickle Cell + Purpose Living with chronic illness while building a mission-based life is not for the faint of heart. As a survivor of Sickle Cell Anemia, I’ve faced organ failure, stroke, and near-death experiences more times than I care to count. And still, God kept me. What I’ve learned is that purpose is sometimes Read more

  • Still Standing Sunday: The Sacred Silence of the Overthinker

    Still Standing Sunday: The Sacred Silence of the Overthinker

    When an overthinker’s mind grows quiet, it doesn’t feel like peace; it feels like panic. But what if the silence isn’t emptiness? What if it’s sacred? This Still Standing Soul Whisper invites you to breathe, trust the pause, and remember: you are still standing. Read more

  • The Difference Between Silence and Secrecy: Choosing Healing Over Bondage.

    The Difference Between Silence and Secrecy: Choosing Healing Over Bondage.

    Silence can be wisdom, and secrecy can be bondage. For years, I didn’t know the difference, and it kept me stuck. Here’s how survivors can discern whether they’re protecting themselves or someone else’s comfort. Read more

  • Still Standing: When Gratitude and Anger Coexist

    Still Standing: When Gratitude and Anger Coexist

    A raw, honest reflection from a mother whose 14-year-old son was injured, flung from his bike, thrown over the handlebars, which resulted in a broken shoulder after braking hard to avoid being hit by a car. The driver? They never even stopped. This week’s Soul Whisper explores the duality of gratitude and righteous anger, and… Read more

  • When Anger Speaks: Righteous Rage and the Myth of the Perfect Survivor

    When Anger Speaks: Righteous Rage and the Myth of the Perfect Survivor

    We don’t talk enough about the rage. Not the anger you can neatly tuck away, but the blood-curdling, body-shaking kind that leaves you trembling long after the moment passes. For survivors of childhood sexual abuse, rage often feels like the one emotion we’re never allowed to have. We’ve been told to “be forgiving,” to “let Read more

  • Still Standing: The Sacred Art of Settling In

    Still Standing: The Sacred Art of Settling In

    Every day won’t be great. But every day brings something. What if, instead of rushing to fix or flee what arises, we learned to settle in and ask, “God, how are You moving even here? Read more

  • When Your Voice Comes Back Angry

    When Your Voice Comes Back Angry

    Sometimes, when your voice returns after years of silence, it doesn’t come back soft, it comes back with fire. This isn’t a sign of failure; it’s a sign of awakening. Here’s what your anger is trying to tell you. Read more

  • Expected to Be Whole, Though We Were Never Protected

    The Unspoken Weight Women and Girls Carry in the Caribbean, and  Be modest. Be respectful. Be nurturing. Be well-behaved. Those were the rules. Unspoken, yet expected. Enforced by grandparents, mothers, fathers, aunties, pastors, teachers, the church, and community members. But who was well with us? This is the contradiction that many Caribbean girls and women Read more

  • The Difference Between Silence and Secrecy

    The Difference Between Silence and Secrecy

    This post is for the survivor who’s still afraid to speak, not because they don’t want to, but because they don’t know if their silence is protecting them or keeping them prisoner. If that’s you, come closer. You don’t have to bleed to be brave. You don’t have to roar to reclaim your voice. Read more

  • Monday’s Musing: Whisper-Sized Courage

    Monday’s Musing: Whisper-Sized Courage

    You don’t have to tell it all to be brave. This week’s Monday Musing is a soft invitation to honor your voice, even if all you can manage today is a breath with intention. Read more

  • Letters to the Silenced (Part 1): A Dispatch for the Ones Who Never Told

    Letters to the Silenced (Part 1): A Dispatch for the Ones Who Never Told

    Dear You, The one who stayed silent because it was safer. The one who wanted to scream but didn’t know if their voice would survive the sound, or the event before or after. The one who tried to forget, tried to move on, tried to convince themselves it wasn’t that bad. The one who still Read more

  • Still Healing. Still Divine. Still His.

    Still Healing. Still Divine. Still His.

    Healing isn’t always linear, quiet, or quick. Sometimes, it’s messy, loud, and still holy. In this post, I discuss the myth of “perfect healing” and speak directly to those who wonder if they’re too broken to be called. You’re not. This is for you. Read more

  • In the Breaking, God Was Still Here: A June Reflection on Safety, Shame & Surrender

    In the Breaking, God Was Still Here: A June Reflection on Safety, Shame & Surrender

    It was not the June I planned. I had hoped to share this earlier, to offer something hopeful, healing, and whole. But life had other plans. A surgery. A sickle cell crisis. Two weeks in the hospital. Two more in a nursing home rehab facility. Now, I’m home again, learning to walk all over again. Read more

  • Still Here. Still Healing. Still Building.

    Still Here. Still Healing. Still Building.

    Larissa Rhone shares from her hospital bed about healing, rest, and the sacred process of rebuilding life with intention. A reminder that purpose doesn’t pause. Read more

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    Dear Survivor, Advocate, and Friend. If you’re reading this, thank you. Whether you’ve followed my journey for years or just arrived here by divine appointment, I’m so grateful you’re here. Today marks my return after more than two years of silence. I want to begin with this truth: the silence was necessary. I didn’t just […]Read more

  • Fab Over 40 Competition

    Three more days to go before the “CUT” begins! My lovelies – I’m currently in 3rd Place in my Group. Please Vote and Share with your friends and family 😊🤦🏾‍♀️ Thank you all for your continuous love and support 🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽 My lovelies, please vote. https://votefab40.com/2023/larissa-rhone Read more

  • 8 Lessons “2022 Taught Me.”

    1) The only things I have control over are my thoughts, emotions, and my reactions. 2) My pain is not meant for just me.  3) Be grateful in ALL things 4) Willpower is built by doing difficult things. 5) It’s OK to celebrate small daily wins.  6) When I cannot see God’s hands, trust his Read more

  • 1 Child 12 Separate Abusers! Masked Episode 5

    1 Child 12 Separate Abusers! Masked Episode 5

    **TRIGGER WARNING** Discussions of Child Sexual Abuse. Episodes may contain graphic details. One Child, 12 Separate Abusers! Molested by her brother and friends, raped by 12 separate abusers, including a stepfather, now 44-years-old and have never dated! Join us for another heart-rending story on the 5th episode of Masked. Listen as our guest shares her Read more

  • Pregnant At 14 By My Uncle Masked Episode 4

    Pregnant At 14 By My Uncle Masked Episode 4

    **TRIGGER WARNING** Discussions of Child Sexual Abuse. Episodes may contain graphic details. IMPREGNATED BY HER UNCLE! – Raped and impregnated by her uncle at age 14, Rudy shares her story on MASKED. In an attempt to start her healing process, Rudy speaks publicly about her childhood traumas. Rudy was raped by her uncle which resulted Read more

  • FEELINGS BURIED ALIVE NEVER DIE… Part 1

    FEELINGS BURIED ALIVE NEVER DIE… Part 1

    FEELINGS BURIED ALIVE NEVER DIE… Part 1 – Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Speaks – Out **TRIGGER WARNING** Discussions of Child Sexual Abuse. Episodes may contain graphic details. A Fi Mi Jamaica Project – Host Leo Gilling from the Leo Gilling Show interviewing and streamed on Jamaica.com She speaks – We speak. Together we stand. Read more