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How to Manage Stress in a Peaceful & Loving Way

October 8, 2019

Coping Strategies, Overcoming Hardship and Trauma, Stress Management

There is one technique guaranteed to lower stress in any situation. It’ll help you discover the best solutions, prevent exhaustion, and reduce the fear you feel while facing any challenging experience. It will help you manage stress in a self-loving, empowering way. It makes sense to doubt a way to manage stress like this exists. What could possibly guarantee you’ll feel better in any overwhelming situation? It’s actually a surprisingly simple technique—and one that’s radically changed my...

The Direct Path You Need to Follow to Thrive after Abuse

October 1, 2019

Empowerment, Healing from Abuse, Living Fully, Overcoming Hardship and Trauma, Prosperity Path

We all enjoy dreaming of a better life. One where we thrive after abuse—less PTSD, stable finances, happier relationships. Whatever that dream is for you. We have to dream to stay hopeful, but we often try to reach our ideal life without taking some important healing steps first. Without this foundation, even the best goals and opportunities will (most likely) collapse around us. Everyone healing from abuse has to go through the same (or at least an...

Conquer Your PTSD Triggers: The Technique You Need to Know

September 24, 2019

Coping Strategies, Healing from Abuse, Overcoming Hardship and Trauma, Stress Management

PTSD triggers can sneak up almost anywhere, even in the most benign conversations or situations. And they can wreck our mood, day, or even send us into a crisis. It isn’t always the common topics, like abuse and violence, that send us into flashbacks or panic attacks. Sometimes, it’s a regular and everyday experience that reminds us of the trauma we faced. Heck, cherry tomatoes have been a serious trigger for me before. Because PTSD triggers are so...

How to Love Yourself: Reclaim Compassion after Abuse

August 20, 2019

Healing from Abuse, Joy, Overcoming Hardship and Trauma, Self Love

Knowing how to love yourself after abuse can feel like a total mystery. There are plenty of articles saying what it’s like to have self-love and what we’re supposed to do to get it. But I’ve yet to find one actually sharing what the real journey towards self love looks like. That’s what this blog is for. There are steps to go through before we actually get to life-long self love. We also need to understand what self...

How to Stop Fearing Affection after Abuse

July 30, 2019

Body Positivity, Healing from Abuse, Overcoming Hardship and Trauma

Human touch. Something we all need, yet something many of us fear after abuse. It make sense touch is now scary. Previous displays of affection were often side by side with acts of violence. If you had asked me three years ago if I’d ever feel safe having sex, I would have said no. That intense level of affection sounded far too frightening. Sex had always, for 15 years, meant pain and violence and fear for...

Just Left an Abuser? How to Handle the Doubt and Grief

June 18, 2019

Coping Strategies, Healing from Abuse, Overcoming Hardship and Trauma, Relationships

Ah, the dreaded task of leaving an abuser… Most likely, if you’re on this blog, you already have left the people who hurt you (or at least the most severe ones), but that doesn’t mean you feel great about your decision. I bet you have some seriously complicated feelings around your choice to walk away. There’s a lot of emotion that goes into leaving an abuser. (I actually talked a ton about that grief right here) It’s natural...

How to Overcome the Burden of Generational Trauma

April 30, 2019

Healing from Abuse, Overcoming Hardship and Trauma

Generational trauma is something every survivor of abuse should understand. If you don’t know what it is and how it affects your life, you’re setting yourself up for repeating toxic cycles. But—if you know what generational trauma is and you own up to facing its impact, to being the change in the cycle, you’re going to do amazing things. You’re setting yourself up for joy, prosperity, and peace. So what really is generational trauma? Abuse tends to be...

Here’s How to Want Tomorrow to Come When Life is Hard

March 27, 2019

Coping Strategies, Healing from Abuse, Living Fully, Overcoming Hardship and Trauma

Was today exhausting? Like the idea of waking up for tomorrow sounds like the most challenging thing to do? I mean who wants to get up for tomorrow that might be just as bad as today? I doubt any person would say “I do” to that. But the thing is, us survivors of abuse don't have a choice. We have to wake up for tomorrow, even though it still carries the pain of our past trauma. If we don't...

3 Remarkable Steps to Overcome a Lifetime of Self Hatred

February 27, 2019

Body Positivity, Empowerment, Healing from Abuse, Overcoming Hardship and Trauma, Self Love

I’m going to be frank. Self-hatred sucks. It's probably the biggest burden that all survivors of abuse live with. And I bet you are plagued by it too. Self-hatred is not only exhausting…it also limits the love we have in our relationships. It makes us feel like a failure anytime we have a simple mistake. It's so unfair that your abuser made you live with self hatred. (After all, this emotion was really a tool that they used...

Why You Never Need to Forgive and Forget Abuse

January 30, 2019

Empowerment, Healing from Abuse, Overcoming Hardship and Trauma, Relationships

You never have to forgive your abuser. You never have to forget or deny what you went through. If you want to share your story publicly, go ahead. If you want to hate the people who hurt you, you have every right. Don’t listen to the people who say “forgive and forget.” This advice usually comes with good intentions, but it’s hard to properly deliver it to a survivor of abuse. Since, well, it’s usually people...

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