Category: Confidence
I Will Not Shrink to Fit Your Comfort: 12 Empowering Womanist Affirmations About Consent, Boundaries, and Self-Respect
The phrase âI will not shrink myself to fit your comfortâ is a declaration of bodily, emotional, and spiritual autonomy. In the context of consent and [...]
When They Twist the Truth, Stay Rooted: Survivor Affirmations for Discernment and Power
These days, some of us feel dizzy from all the ways people try to twist the truth.
They sell us distortion as progress.They call confusion âcompassio [...]
âĄThey Misjudged YouâBut You Didnât Disappear
You know whatâs wild?
They thought that breaking you would end the story.They thought silence meant defeat.They mistook your stillness for surrender. [...]
Youâre Not BehindâYouâre Rebuilding
Letâs go ahead and cancel a lie today:âI should be further along by now.âWhere? According to whom? On whose timeline?
If youâve survived harm, betray [...]
đĽ Boundaries Are Health Care (Yes, I Said What I Said)
Letâs go ahead and set the record straight:Boundaries are not rude.Theyâre not mean.Theyâre not "doing too much."They are health care.
Thatâs right [...]
New to Boundaries? Youâre Not Alone.
For many of us who survived abuse, neglect, or manipulation, the concept of âboundariesâ may feel foreignâmaybe even scary.
You might have grown up i [...]
The Healing Hum: A Sound Our Bodies Remember
Before we had language for healingâŚBefore we knew the words nervous system or self-regulationâŚMany of us grew up in homes where someone hummed us th [...]
Survivor Affirmation: My Scars Tell a Story of Strength
If youâve ever worried that sharing your story makes you look weakâLet me remind you what your story really says:
Something struck me.Something t [...]
Even in Silence. Even in Fear. I Was Resisting.
You may not have screamed.You may not have fought back the way they say you âshould have.âYou may not have run, or yelled, or told anyone.
But please [...]
⨠Survivor Affirmation ⨠âFree Yourself from Holding Doors Open.â
Free yourself from the habit of keeping doors open to people who stopped being deserving of access to you a long time ago.
That door you keep check [...]