You Have Every Right to Be Beautifully Represented
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Dear Survivor,
You have every right to speak your mind about how you are represented.
Your story.Your image.Your s [...]
Life Calls Us to Evolve Culturally Too: Sinners Dancers Revealed !! Juke Joint Scene Explained β Dance Styles, Symbolism & Forgotten History
Life does not call us to evolve through advancements in technology only. Life calls us to evolve culturally as well.Β
Without cultural evolution:
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Finding Freedom Through Movement: How Dance Becomes a Healing Journey from Abuse πβ¨
So, the fabulous Eartha Kitt was a triple threat. Dancer, singer, and actor. She was also a Survivor.
By every reasonable understanding of the word,Β [...]
Survivor Affirmations: Change is My Friend (video)
Survivor Affirmations: Change is My Friend (video): WESurviveAbuse.com encourages and supports the de-silencing, healing, & empowerm [...]
Great Re-Inventors: Eartha Kitt #courage #changeyourlife #comeback
After being blacklisted in the United States in 1968, Eartha Kitt had several choices.Β She chose to find new doors and soar.
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When Youβre Trained to Consume a Culture but Not Understand It (Amplifying Affirmations for Black Creators)
It isn't that people think that Black art should never be critiqued, but there is undeniable and die-hard racism within the critiques. Further, when m [...]
Radical Self-Love in a Miserable World
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Dear Survivor,
If they take the timeβtheir timeβto step into your spaces just to insult you, your culture, your joy, [...]
Survivor Affirmation: For Chaka Khan, Bold Enough to Remain Herself
Chaka Khan has never moved through the world like a woman asking to be watered down.
Her voice has heat in it. Fire. Velvet. Thunder. A little chur [...]
πΏ Dear Woman Who is Learning to Say No Without Explaining
I see the weight you carry when you even think about saying no.The hesitation.The catch in your breath.The flood of reasons rising in your chest, read [...]
From Shame to Strategy: How to Train Your Brain to Fail Smarter
Β Learning about shame is so important. I've personally seen shame drive people to their very end.
Learning about shame is a life saver.
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12 Free eBooks to Support Your Somatic Healing Journey
Dear Survivor,
They are playing in your face by making you explain. And explain. And explain. Forget them.
All these folks running around protecti [...]
Survivor Affirmation: I Appreciate Me for Being Me (featuring poet Steven Willis w Youtube video link)
Affirmation: I speak to myself in the tone I once searched for in othersβ
gentle, unhurried, faithful to my becoming.
Oh how I love, adore, and a [...]
πΏ Dear Woman Who is Learning to Trust Herself Again
I see you.
Standing there at the edge of every decision,weighing it with a careful hand,a heart that still flinches sometimes,a mind that remembers t [...]
Survivor Affirmations: Actually, I CAN and I WILL (podcast short)
Building on the true story of the United States' first elected woman mayor, Susanna Salter, this short episode inspires listeners to believe t [...]
When Reality Is Contested: How Survivors Protect Their Truth in Controlled Narratives
Itβs about trust in what is real.Itβs about who gets to define truth.Itβs about whether change is organic or imposed.And itβs about whether people are [...]
Why You Canβt Just βGet Overβ Trauma: The Science Behind Healing
Mute, Block, and Ignore.....
"Get over it."
"That was so long ago"
"How long do we have to hear about this?"
"Can't you just forgive?"
"Can [...]
Elizabeth Packard: The Woman They Called Insane Until She Changed the Law
Elizabeth Packard was not simply a βwronged wife.β
She was a mother. A thinker. A religious dissenter. A wife under the rule of a husband who belie [...]
π§οΈ Affirmation: The Rain Brings Clarity
Iβve learned to be more grateful for clarity.
I donβt love the storms that bring it β but I honor what they wash away.
I hate hard times.
I hate [...]
Their Status Doesnβt Erase My Truth
SurvivorAffirmations.com | Inspired by WeSurviveAbuse.com
Let them have the stage.Let them have the followers, the lawyers, the applause.
But they w [...]
Affirmations to Empower Women to Advocate for Good Health
Acknowledging that the key to every womanβs survival is
safety and good health; we do hereby implore all women, to advocate for
themselves when in [...]
When Being Yourself Is Labeled βPoliticalβ: Why some people are punished simply for showing up
Nat King Cole really was attacked on stage during a concert in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1956.
While performing at the Municipal Auditorium in Birmingh [...]
What βFind 100 Waysβ Teaches Us About Uplifting the People We Love
There are some songs that do not simply play.
They enter the room.
They adjust the light.
They sit beside you with a kind of grown tenderness [...]
πΊ You Are the Proof β Not the Problem
They said you were the problem.Too loud. Too soft. Too different. Too much.But the truth is, you were only ever too real for a world addicted to pre [...]
How 3 Minutes of Gratitude Calms the Brain | Dr. Tracey Marks
Affirmations
1. I thank the breath that chose me today. With every inhale, I welcome life. With every exhale, I release what is no longer mine to car [...]
Affirmations for Patients Who Are Afraid They Will Not Be Heard at the Doctorβs Office
There is a particular kind of tired that comes from knowing something is happening in your body, then having to gather your strength to explain it to [...]
Affirmations for Cutting Through the “Devil” Dodge
Here is a set of affirmations designed to cut through the "smoke and mirrors" of redirected blame. These are meant to ground you when someone tries to [...]
Cultural Mirrors: Reflecting Self-Worth Through the Practice of Honoring Traditions
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The teachers are surprised to learn the kids are unaware of a vital piece of cultural history.
Cultural traditions matter
Among the [...]
πΏ Swaying Is Sacred: A Nervous System Reset Rooted in Our Bodies and Our Histories
βEven in stillness, I can move.
Even in pain, I can sway. My body remembers peace.β
Somewhere along the way, many of us were taught to sit still. [...]
πΉ They Fear the Day You Finally See Yourself Clearly
They donβt fear your mistakes.
They donβt fear your pain.They donβt even fear your anger.
What they fear β is your clarity.
Because the momen [...]
πΊ Marielle Franco: She Spoke. Even When It Was Dangerous to Speak.
Marielle Franco was a Black woman from the favelas ofΒ Rio de Janeiro.
She knew violence.Not from headlines.From proximity.
From lived experience.
F [...]
Your Authentic Voice Belongs In This Season
There is something Iβve noticed across history β and I feel it stirring again.
Whenever those in power get too big, too loud, too controllingβ¦wheneve [...]
BLACK GIRL, YOUR CREATIVITY HAS TRAVELED THE WORLD ππ€
Look around.
Hair.
Fashion.
Dance.
Music.
Language.
Beauty.
Humor.
Style.
So much of what Black communities h [...]
