My Story-Mandy M
My story began in September 2015, I was 22 years old. I met & started dating and fell in love with a man who treated me like a princess. I fell fast and hard, and although I had never lived outside of my parents/grandparents homes, within four months of this relationship starting, he had […]
My Story- JJ Intimate Partner Violence- From Protector to Unprotected
On this October evening, we are at the break of Fall, but let me ask you to think back-back to January of 2010… what where you doing? Here in Chicago, it wasn’t the coldest or the worst winter on record, but it was the darkest winter of my entire life.It was a frigid day in […]
Breaking the Chains: My Journey Through Domestic Abuse and Empowerment”
As part of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, I have been encouraged to share my story publicly. You see, I barely survived an abusive marriage that included extreme sexual and physical abuse, as well as financial abuse. When he and I started dating, I thought I had found a great guy. He was a military […]
“From Darkness to Healing: My Journey Through Trauma and Recovery”
Well there’s so much to tell , where do I begin.. my ex of 7 yrs the last couple years he started lying, stealing , tried to make me out to be wrong and feel worthless when I caught him He caused me to go to jail and I lost my nursing license. He made […]
My Story-Naomi
t’s ironic that just as I start to feel comfortable confronting the ghosts from my past, one of them dies. While he may be physically dead, he is still very much alive in my head. He was my step-dad. I was supposed to be able to trust him. My dad wasn’t in the picture except […]
My Story-Miranda
I was 19 the first time I “left” my abuser. I was 7 months pregnant with our first child and he had locked me in our bedroom, as in he was in the hall holding the doorknob, and was telling me that he was going to set our apartment on fire. I crawled out of […]
