by Journey2Free | Mar 1, 2020 | #Acceptance, #Expectations, #goals, #Journey2Free, Awakened Retreat, Becoming, Betrayal, Breaking Cycles, Breakups, Broken Trust, Challenging, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Childhood Trauma, Chronic Disease, Courage, Creating Shifts, Cutting, Death, Depression, Emotions, Empowerment, Encouragement, Evolving, Faith, family, fear, Fighter, Forgiveness, Forgiving Self, Freedom, Generational Rape, God, guilt, Healing, Heartaches, Hope, illness, Insecurities, Internal pain, Intimacy, Isolation, Journey, No More Secrets!, Overcomer, Overcoming, Overwhelming, Pain, Perseverance, Poetry, Prayer, Rape, Reassigning Shame, Regenerate, Relationships, Secrets, Self- acceptance, Self-discovery, Self-expression, Self-love, Self-recovery, Sexual Abuse, Shame, Shatter The Silence, Soul-searching, Speak, Speak-Out, Speaking, Stand In Your Truth, Strength, support, Surviving healing, Survivor, Transformation, Trauma, Trust-Issues, truth, updates, We Speak To Heal, Wholeness, Withdrawal
HAPPY NEW YEAR! It’s been a while since my last post and SO much has happened. To my readers, followers, supporters and dear I say friends that embarked on this journey with me, allow me to say, I truly hope the new year have been great to you thus far. I pray...
by Journey2Free | Feb 13, 2019 | #Acceptance, #Journey2Free, Addiction, anger, Anxiety, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Peace, Self-Respect, Be The Change, Breaking Cycles, Broken, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Childhood Trauma, Chronic Disease, Conversations, Courage, Depression, Evolving, family, Freedom, Generational Rape, Growth, Healing, Journey, love, Overcomer, Overcoming, Poetry, Rape, Reassigning Shame, Relationships, Secrets, Self- acceptance, Self-Esteem, Self-Esteem Issues, Sexual Abuse, Speak, Speak-Out, Speaking, Stand, Stand In Your Truth, Suicide, Survivor, Trust-Issues, truth, updates
I was awakened this morning by the younger me, forcibly asking me questions, while screaming Help! Help! HELP ME PLEASE! She asked, what happened to You? What happened to Me? What happened to that bright-eyed, vivacious, precocious child We use to be?! Remember how...
by Journey2Free | Feb 10, 2018 | #Acceptance, anger, Be The Change, Breaking Cycles, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Childhood Trauma, Courage, Depression, Evolving, family, Freedom, Generational Rape, Healing, Justice, Overcomer, Panic Attacks/Anxiety, Poetry, Rape, Reassigning Shame, Secrets, Self-Esteem, Self-Esteem Issues, Sexual Abuse, Speak, Speaking, Stand, Stand In Your Truth, Survivor, Trust-Issues, truth
When you decide to speak up about child sexual abuse, you will experience various reactions from various people. Survivors would like to believe ‘family’ will be the most supportive, but often times we experience the opposite. My experience was no...
by Journey2Free | Jan 22, 2018 | #Acceptance, Be The Change, Breaking Cycles, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Childhood Trauma, Courage, Evolving, Freedom, Generational Rape, Growth, Healing, Overcomer, Poetry, Reassigning Shame, Sexual Abuse, Speak, Speaking, Stand, Stand In Your Truth, Survivor
What about the ones that came before us?! I saw a comment earlier that really pained my heart, it was from an elderly survivor of child sexual abuse. The comment was made on Facebook on a thread of exchanges from survivors and supporters alike, but this particular...
by Journey2Free | Dec 31, 2017 | #Acceptance, anger, Anxiety, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Peace, Self-Respect, Be, Be The Change, Breaking Cycles, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Childhood Trauma, Courage, Evolving, family, Freedom, Generational Rape, Growth, Healing, Justice, Overcomer, Poetry, Rape, Reassigning Shame, Secrets, Self- acceptance, Self-Esteem, Sexual Abuse, Speak, Speaking, Stand, Stand In Your Truth, Survivor, truth
For years I was asked not to speak about being raped by my maternal grandmothers husband for the sake of protecting my grandmother. Her daughters had grown up with this fear that her husband would have killed her had THEY spoken out about him raping THEM. So, when...
by Journey2Free | Nov 15, 2017 | #Acceptance, Chronic Disease, Courage, Evolving, Freedom, Growth, Poetry, Self- acceptance, Speak, Speaking, Survivor
It matters not how ideal our life may seem to others, or how we pretend all is well, we all encounter those days where nothing, and I mean nothing seem to go right, how do you cope? I am learning day by day to just be! To be present, to be still, and to accept that no...
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