Posted on August 7, 2022
by Janna
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You’ll lose people along your journey. Sometimes it’s because they enable the one who abused you, therefore you cannot maintain connection with them. Sometimes it’s because they believe the lies and rumors, the smear campaign about you, and forsake their connection to you. Sometimes… Continue Reading “What You Sacrifice to Find Yourself”
Category: Abuse Against Women, Advice, Advocacy & Education, Living Your Own Life, Opinion, Personal Essay, Self Empowerment, Self ImprovementTags: abuse survivors, boundaries, discard, domestic abuse, emotional abuse, enabling, gaslighting, healing, lies, manipulation, people-pleasing, sacrifice, smear campaign, starting over after abuse, survivor, woke
Posted on February 6, 2022
by Janna
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I waited more than six years for the bedroom you see here. 2,238 nights, to be exact. That’s how many nights I slept on the futon in our living room. When my two kids and I moved into a small duplex, our current home,… Continue Reading “The Sacrifice of Starting Over”
Category: Abuse Against Women, Advice, Advocacy & Education, Living Your Own Life, Opinion, Personal Essay, Self Empowerment, Self ImprovementTags: abuse survivors, domestic abuse, emotional abuse, healing, manipulation, narcissistic abuse, sacrifice, starting over after abuse, survivor