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This is a space where survivors of trauma and abuse share their stories alongside supportive allies. These stories remind us that hope exists even in dark times. You are never alone in your experience. Healing is possible for everyone.
Healing, to me, is a constantly evolving. It started with accepting what had happened to me. I hope that one day I will confide in someone about my experience and truly heal from it.
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Healing means letting myself feel that anger, knowing that I don’t even have to forgive myself because there is nothing I should be sorry for. It’s not linear, it takes time and it also takes support and I don’t have to do it alone. There is still so much internalised misogyny I have to unlearn and that’s part of it too.
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For me healing is moving in with my life and not letting those who have assaulted me take over my life. When I can leave the house and feel safe
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If you think you may have been assaulted you probably have. Take time to deal with it don’t brush it off. It is not the new normal.
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Healing is finding my voice. No longer being afraid to share my story and be listened too. Holding in those feelings and thoughts, what happened to you is never the best way to heal. Find your voice and I promise you’ll be heard.
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Healing for me is to view myself with compassion and put the shame onto them instead of continuing to carry it.
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This poem by Rupi Kaur captures the essence of healing "What is stronger than a human heart which shatters over and over and still lives"
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You matter, your story matters, and nobody knows what happened to you that day. Never stop fighting. Never let it get the best of you.
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Healing to me is being kind to yourself and allow yourself to have those hard days, allow your heart to love yourself because you are pretty amazing. For me art was my way to express those feelings even though I was not good at it, I just let it be and kept going.
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I've a lot of healing to do. Starting with counselling to try understand everything and why it wasn't all my fault.
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Talk, therapy, know it’s nothing you did, know you are amazing and don’t let those sad bastards take that away from you.
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Healing means acceptance. It is a scary, unpredictable journey of learning to love yourself again.
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This is a space where survivors of trauma and abuse share their stories alongside supportive allies. These stories remind us that hope exists even in dark times. You are never alone in your experience. Healing is possible for everyone.
For me healing is moving in with my life and not letting those who have assaulted me take over my life. When I can leave the house and feel safe
Report
Healing for me is to view myself with compassion and put the shame onto them instead of continuing to carry it.
Report
This poem by Rupi Kaur captures the essence of healing "What is stronger than a human heart which shatters over and over and still lives"
Report
You matter, your story matters, and nobody knows what happened to you that day. Never stop fighting. Never let it get the best of you.
Report
Talk, therapy, know it’s nothing you did, know you are amazing and don’t let those sad bastards take that away from you.
Report
Healing means acceptance. It is a scary, unpredictable journey of learning to love yourself again.
Report
Healing means letting myself feel that anger, knowing that I don’t even have to forgive myself because there is nothing I should be sorry for. It’s not linear, it takes time and it also takes support and I don’t have to do it alone. There is still so much internalised misogyny I have to unlearn and that’s part of it too.
Report
I've a lot of healing to do. Starting with counselling to try understand everything and why it wasn't all my fault.
Report
Healing, to me, is a constantly evolving. It started with accepting what had happened to me. I hope that one day I will confide in someone about my experience and truly heal from it.
Report
If you think you may have been assaulted you probably have. Take time to deal with it don’t brush it off. It is not the new normal.
Report
Healing is finding my voice. No longer being afraid to share my story and be listened too. Holding in those feelings and thoughts, what happened to you is never the best way to heal. Find your voice and I promise you’ll be heard.
Report
Healing to me is being kind to yourself and allow yourself to have those hard days, allow your heart to love yourself because you are pretty amazing. For me art was my way to express those feelings even though I was not good at it, I just let it be and kept going.
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Grounding activity
Find a comfortable place to sit. Gently close your eyes and take a couple of deep breaths - in through your nose (count to 3), out through your mouth (count of 3). Now open your eyes and look around you. Name the following out loud:
5 – things you can see (you can look within the room and out of the window)
4 – things you can feel (what is in front of you that you can touch?)
3 – things you can hear
2 – things you can smell
1 – thing you like about yourself.
Take a deep breath to end.
From where you are sitting, look around for things that have a texture or are nice or interesting to look at.
Hold an object in your hand and bring your full focus to it. Look at where shadows fall on parts of it or maybe where there are shapes that form within the object. Feel how heavy or light it is in your hand and what the surface texture feels like under your fingers (This can also be done with a pet if you have one).
Take a deep breath to end.
Ask yourself the following questions and answer them out loud:
1. Where am I?
2. What day of the week is today?
3. What is today’s date?
4. What is the current month?
5. What is the current year?
6. How old am I?
7. What season is it?
Take a deep breath to end.
Put your right hand palm down on your left shoulder. Put your left hand palm down on your right shoulder. Choose a sentence that will strengthen you. For example: “I am powerful.” Say the sentence out loud first and pat your right hand on your left shoulder, then your left hand on your right shoulder.
Alternate the patting. Do ten pats altogether, five on each side, each time repeating your sentences aloud.
Take a deep breath to end.
Cross your arms in front of you and draw them towards your chest. With your right hand, hold your left upper arm. With your left hand, hold your right upper arm. Squeeze gently, and pull your arms inwards. Hold the squeeze for a little while, finding the right amount of squeeze for you in this moment. Hold the tension and release. Then squeeze for a little while again and release. Stay like that for a moment.
Take a deep breath to end.