Yesterday was national Grief Awareness Day. When I saw this day on the calendar, my heart went out to the many ways that we experience grief surrounding sexual violence. We experience grief in both abstract and very tangible ways. As survivors of sexual violence and loved ones of sexual violence, we naturally grieve many things. We grieve the …
Unwanted sexual experiences can make us feel out of control. Someone took control over us and our own body. Additionally, sometimes we feel like we should have been able to control the situation. “If only I hadn’t gone to that place at that time.” “If only I hadn’t been drinking.” “If only I’d watched my child closer.” “If …
Today is Tell a Fairy Tale Day. This day is a great opportunity for survivors to write our story and create our own fairy tale. You see, as survivors, we often feel like someone else is in control of our story. Maybe our perpetrators took control of a piece of our lives, ourselves, or our story. Sometimes it feels like …
The Upside of Single When someone asks me if there is anything that good about being single, my immediate answer is: freedom, which immediately causes me to picture Mel Gibson in Braveheart gathering the Scottish clansmen and riling them up with that famous “FREEDOM!!!” scream. I usually then say something like, “what’s not to like? …
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Single again…and again…and again. Do you find yourself in relationship after relationship always searching for “the one” but never finding them? Do you often wonder why you always seem to choose the wrong person over and over again, unable to break out of that pattern? Sometimes we need to look deep into ourselves and reflect …
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You may not know this, but the 3rd week of September is National Unmarried and Single Americans Week. Why is there a whole week dedicated to celebrating life as a single? I’ve been doing some digging into this and I’ve found some interesting statistics as to why this is an important week. Did you know …
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What’s the first thing that you think of when you think of Pride? Maybe it’s rainbows, parades, or colorful wigs. That’s definitely a part of Pride, but we also want to take some time to dig in a little more. In our blog post at the beginning of the month, we talked a little bit …
“I just can’t say no” “I didn’t really want to do that, but I felt like I had to.” Have you ever found yourself saying those sorts of things or were in a situation where you felt like you were backed into a corner and just couldn’t say what YOUR needs were? If so, it …
