My Story

I suppose really this is Open Journal #5a It occurred to me that not everyone knows this story. I am a survivor and this is my story. An order of events if you will. An outline. I used to use the terminology that the headline was that i was a survivor of sexual abuse. I … Continue reading My Story →

Open Journal #10

In the world of survivors the phrase ‘Trigger Warning’ means more than it has become to mean in common parlance. The content may be of a nature that has the potential to trigger a flashback or similar for a survivor and may deal with a subject matter or describe things in such a way as … Continue reading Open Journal #10 →

Open Journal #9

Violent childhood. Sexual abuse. Damaged adult getting by. Disclosure, police, courts. Two decades of coping. And now — the realisation I never really faced any of it. This all feels like the right thing to do, and I am starting to understand some of it. I had never spoken about, addressed, admitted, described all the … Continue reading Open Journal #9 →

Open Journal #7

The first few lines of My Story talk about my father being violent, locking me in rooms, and that I never talk about it. In chat a few days ago I was talking with someone and they told me they had read my story and said nice, kind things to me. I asked if he … Continue reading Open Journal #7 →