Survivor Stories

"They told me I had to forgive to heal. That's bullshit. I healed by getting angry, setting boundaries, and refusing to make my trauma smaller for other
people's comfort."

- Anonymous Survivor

"My trauma doesn't fit into neat categories. It's messy, it's ongoing, and it doesn't follow the textbook timeline. That doesn't make it less valid."

- Community Member

“They called me reckless. They saw the drugs, the drinking, the numbness—but they
never asked what I was trying to escape. I didn’t self-destruct because I didn’t care.
I was drowning in pain I couldn’t name. That wasn’t weakness. That was survival.
And I made it out.”
— Anonymous Survivor