How Saprea Helped Me Heal, Find Purpose, and Change Lives
I was able to attend Saprea Retreat in May of 2023. And it really affected the trajectory of my life in the most positive ways. I have wanted to thank you and put into words how grateful I am, but was unsure where to begin. In early 2023 before I attended the retreat, I was […]
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Discovering Who I Am Beyond the Trauma
Today I feel empowered and mighty. Yesterday I felt like my world had crumbled. Every day it changes. I’m happy to say I am having more good days than ever before. My stepdad abused me from my earliest memories till I was 13, when we finally moved out. I never had a chance to get […]
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From Existing to Thriving: How Saprea Helped Me Reclaim My Life
Before I found Saprea, I was existing—not surviving, not living. Thank god I found them when I did. I attended the Saprea Retreat in 2019 and, for the first time in my life, I felt seen, heard, understood, and loved. I was impacted by trauma throughout my childhood and never felt secure in myself. There […]
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Speaking My Truth: Finding Freedom After Silence and Shame
In denial, resistance to the truth. A constant battle between the hard, raw truth and comfortable lies. Ignoring my own gut instinct. How unnatural. The little girl inside fights against her own‚ unknowing. Suppressing the emotions I had—not wanting to witness the ones around me upset, for something I was involved in but had no […]
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Breaking Free from Shame: My Journey to Understanding and Healing
When I was five, my parents and I went on our annual camping trip. When we got there, we set up our stuff next to another family—a mom, a dad, and a twelve-year-old girl. She introduced herself. She gave me candy and affection, played with me, and acted like a friend. We found a dry […]
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Finding My Worth: How Saprea Helped Me Begin to Heal
Saprea truly saved my life! I cannot emphasize that enough. The Haven Retreat, which is now the Saprea Retreat, helped me find answers to questions that I was convinced there were no answers for other than mine was just a waste of a life. The retreat made EVERYTHING that happened in my life make sense. […]
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Living Beyond the Shadows: My Journey from Trauma to Healing
The trauma of the abuse followed me wherever I went. I struggled to make friends, to trust people, to feel safe in my own skin. I was constantly on edge, always looking over my shoulder, always afraid of what might happen next. As I got older, the trauma manifested itself in different ways. I struggled […]
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Finding My Voice: Healing Through Art and Owning My Truth
My breakthrough moment would be when I started to heal my childhood trauma. I started believing in myself and believing that I could have the life I had dreamed of. I looked into podcasts on mental health and listened to other survivors. When I was able to take the pain and go on a journey […]
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