Dearest Grandma…

by | 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...

COURT: DAY 7… A GRANDMOTHER’S BETRAYAL.

by | Mar 26, 2017 | anger, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Childhood Trauma, Courage, Evolving, Freedom, Growth, Justice, Reassigning Shame, Self- acceptance, Sexual Abuse, Speak, Speaking, Survivor

A Grandmother’s Betrayal… CHOOSE YOU!!! Some days were unbearable (emotionally). Sitting across from the matriarch of the family, knowing she’s present at court not because of her daughters and granddaughters, but instead in support of her husband...

Court. Day’s 5 & 6

by | Feb 26, 2017 | anger, Anxiety, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Peace, Self-Respect, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Childhood Trauma, Courage, Evolving, Freedom, Growth, Justice, Reassigning Shame, Self- acceptance, Sexual Abuse, Speak, Speaking, Survivor

Fighting Against Childhood Sexual Abuse Standing up for what you believe in and seeking justice in the fight against Child Sexual Abuse seems like an unattainable feat. The challenges, and obstacles presented, the mental struggles, the emotional upheaval having to go...