Changing the Narrative: Journey from Silence to Healing
For over 40 years, Jean told herself the abuse didn’t matter. But through Saprea’s programs, she found safety, healing, and power to rewrite her story, from silence and shame to strength and self-compassion.
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Living with Hidden Trauma: One Survivor’s Story of Silent Grief and Unseen Strength
Everyone writes a chapter of their life that stays hidden away in a dusty old place or maybe tucked far far away in the recesses of our mind, its presence goes unnoticed and unknown. It’s never read aloud, or even murmured, if its existence were ever found, the very soul would be exposed. There is a […]
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A Story of Silenced Trauma and Survival
My history of abuse began when I was very young. My father didn’t love me because I was a girl, and my mother saw me as the reason why my father didn’t love her. She allowed all kinds of abuse and humiliation from different people around me. The abuse began to impact my personality, even […]
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Starting Over at 45: A Mother’s Journey from Survival to Self-Discovery
I’m 45 and starting over. I raised my kids with a laser-like focus on one thing: they will not be sexually abused. I accomplished that. I sacrificed everything. Now it’s my turn. I stayed in an unhealthy marriage to my children’s father so they wouldn’t have any stepparents. I stayed home from work for 17 […]
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On the Eve of 39: A Survivor’s Story of Endurance, Healing, and Hope
Tomorrow, I turn 39. I was around three years old the first time I was abused. My grandfather was the first of many. The abuse continued until I was five, when my cousin became my next abuser. At six, that abuse shifted again, this time, at the hands of my own sister. By ten, my […]
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When Therapy Wasn’t Enough: How the Saprea Retreat Helped with Healing
After thirty years of therapy, you’d think I would be healed, or at least the best version of myself, yet there was still something missing, a connection I was not making from my past to my present. I had the privilege of attending a Saprea retreat, which altered my life, taking me out of a […]
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From Silence to Strength: Healing from Sexual Trauma and Embracing My Neurodivergent Identity
At age 20, I got taken advantage of sexually by a male after our date in my college dorm. My process of healing was two-fold. I shared my experience with males I was in a relationship with, but most of them seemed to be bothered by it. Only one had the courage to tell me […]
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Finding Freedom: Escaping Abuse and Reclaiming My Voice
My abuse started at a very young age by someone I loved and was meant to trust in life. He was large, scary, and mean. At age 6, it started with physical violence, and it progressed to sexual assault as I got older in life. My abuser trapped me until I fought for my life, […]
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