AFFIRMATIONS AND SELF LOVE
WE Survive Abuse Podcast Episodes
Rights at Risk: Unpacking the Erosion of Women’s Freedoms (podcast episode)
What is happening to the rights of women and girls when it comes to our decisions about our safety, well-being, dignity, and privacy?LINK [...]
Even Pain Has a Purpose: A Call to Men Who Have Lost Women They Love to Male Violence
The Transformative Power of PainMen, your pain over losing the women you love can be a transformative force. Itâs not just personal â itâs polit [...]
The Power of Unapologetic Truth: Fannie Lou Hamer and Zora Neale Hurston (audio/podcast)
In this episode of We Survive Abuse, we explore how women like Fannie Lou Hamer and Zora Neale Hurston resisted the systemic micromanagement of [...]
The Role of Homeownership in Women’s Liberation: Domestic Violence and Homelessness (podcast/audio)
In this episode, explore the critical intersection of domestic violence and homelessness, revealing how 38% of women escaping abuse face hou [...]
Your Discomfort and Confusion is Not More Important than Her Pain (audio/podcast)
When people express pain, shock, and grief; your confusion is not an emergency. And it is not more urgent than a womanâs grief. What we are [...]
HEALING

đż What Is Healing?
I'm a plant Mom again. I didn't realize I was sensitive about it until I sent one of my relatives pictures of my plants. She didn't say anythin [...]

Access to Women Is Not a Male Human Right
There is something deeply revealing about the world we live in.
You cannot rent a car without agreeing to terms....and a credit card.
You cannot lea [...]

Favorite Memoirs and Reads on Abuse, Rape, & Violence: Tonya GJ Prince
Greetings Readers, Books are a critical element to healing and understanding violence,
rape, and abuse. Book recommendations
are valued. Pleas [...]
CHILDREN DESERVE SAFETY
Hate Makes the Mind Small: Freedom Lives in Openness
Hateful people say, "So you all are just these magical people walking around knowing everything hunh."
Sometimes...... we do not have the w [...]
BECAUSE SHE IS SOMEONE
⥠Trust Yourself â Without Apology
âThey may call you hateful. But what they wonât call you is gone â because you trusted yourself.âÂ
Ignore the [...]
Megan Thee Stallion 101: You Donât Break Me in Public and Expect Me to Heal in Silence
Why are people angry? I will tell you. This happens to nearly every victim who chooses themselves and the trut [...]
Why Is Black Womenâs Truth Treated as Disloyalty?
There is a name for what happens when Black women are pressured to abandon our Blackness in order to be accept [...]
Survivor Affirmations: Encouragement to Women Everywhere (video/audio)
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END FEMICIDE
Familiarity Doesnât Make Stranger Abuse Irrelevant
Thereâs a manipulation tactic that keeps slipping into our public conversationsâone that says: âMost pe [...]
đŻïž Sandyâs Law: The Price She Paid, The Road She Built
[WeSurviveAbuse.com]
There are women today who believe that feminism is no longer needed.But sometimes the [...]
What Is Trauma? A Simple Explanation (w/Quotes)
*Note: This is meant to be an elementary explanation. It came out of a conversation. Sometimes you realize y [...]
Rosa Parks: A Stealth Strategist Against Deceit, Manipulation, and Violence
updated from January 6, 2025 with new links and information
Let's be honest, the word "gaslighting" gets thro [...]
END RAPE
âWhy Are Women Still Told to Have Faith in Men Who âRebrandâ Themselves?â
âIf his change requires your suffering to prove it, it isnât change â itâs another performance.â
â WeSurviv [...]
Weaponized Moralism: The Silence That Screams
They call it compassion.But only when it protects male access.
They call it justice.But only when women are a [...]
Coercion in Disguise: When Love Asks You to Lie
When someone pressures a woman to lie, to go against her beliefs, her conscience, her values, her faith, or [...]
We Warned You: The Deadly Price Black Women Pay for Social Justice Experiments by The Way She Came
One thing I have learned about life on this planet, people just act like it goes against everything that the [...]
THE SHOP
đż My Self-Soothe Journal
đż My Self-Soothe Journal
A Sacred Space to Tend to Your Spirit, Breath by Breath
There are moments when the world feels too loud⊠and your nervous [...]
LOVING SAFELY
đ Women’s Safety Is Not Up for Debate: On Pressure, Autonomy, and Male Violence
We know that society still expects women to protect menâs reputationsâ
especially when those men are climbing the ladder of power.
Even i [...]
The Gift of Access to YOU (audio/podcast)
This episode unpacks how those lessons of survival can linger into adulthood, making us feel like we owe access to anyone who asks.... [...]
Fave Podcast Episodes: Trafficking Documentary Director Alison Jayne Wilson with Neil Getzlow
Episode 79: Unmasking the journey of Alison Jayne Wilson and EXITUnmasked With Neil GetzlowToday, I'm excited to share my interview wi [...]
LEGAL/COURTROOM

Fair is Fair: What The Legend of Billie Jean Teaches Us About the Inversion of Reality”
Imagine youâre watching a movie where a sneaky character does something mean to a classmate, like stealing their lunch. But as soon as a teacher walks [...]

â If You Canât Speak Your Truth Without Losing Love, Youâre Not in a RelationshipâYouâre Under Rule
There are relationships that look like love on the outside.They may even feel like loveâsometimes.
But if your ability to tell the truth threatens [...]

Survivor Affirmations: Wise Words from Louise Elliot on Self-Checks
Wise words shared by Louise Elliot on the X platform. When it comes to how we treat other people; we *all* fall short sometimes, but [...]
HERSTORY/HISTORY
Not Like Us: The Black Freedom Legacy Was Not Built on Unquestioning Institutional Compliance
There is a pattern that deserves daylight. Some movements wrap themselves in the language, symbolism, and moral authority of the Black American fre [...]
When Survival Is Mistaken for Consent: Black Women, Weaponized Ignorance, and the Right to Refuse
It is not normal for people to know little to nothing about youâand still demand your allegiance.
Your loyalty.
Your sacrifice.
Your fighting spir [...]
Jim Crow Had Graves Attached to It
"I was excluded, so this is like Jim Crow." Jim Crow was not simply âI feel unwelcome."
Jim Crow was an entire machinery of racial domination, bac [...]
MANIPULATION
Coercive Sex Trafficking: What People Donât Understand
That line is more fragile than people think.
Too many people in the U.S. still picture sex trafficking as some shadowy van pulling up to snatch a g [...]
The Healing Isnât in the Headlines. Itâs in the Listening
There is a rhythm that the media loves:Shock. Outrage. Silence.A Survivor comes forward.The story catches fire.It lands in headlines, hashtags, and tr [...]
đ âI Was Coerced by Someone I Trusted. I Didnât Say No. Is It Still Assault?â
This is one of the most common â and most heartbreaking â questions Survivors ask. And it deserves a clear, loving, truthful answer.
Yes. Coer [...]
ART IS HEALING

Eveâs Legacy Is More Than MusicâItâs a Blueprint for Reinvention
Eve is more than a mic and a momentâsheâs a one woman movement.From Philly cyphers to global stages, from "Love Is B [...]

Jenifer Lewis Talks About Sexual Assault and Dealing with a Con Artist | Studio Q
This is a mighty woman! She survives AND she does the work to heal. A mighty woman indeed. Check out these jewels in the for [...]

How Vanessa Williams Overcame Bias and Industry Backlash to Reinvent Herselfâand Win Anyway”
This is how you do it! It was 1984. Vanessa Williams was surrounded on all sides. Some people were angry when she won Ms. [...]

Own the Narrative: The Power of Storytelling Against Epistemicide
In a world where algorithms dictate whose voices are heard and whose truths are silenced, storytelling becomes an act of r [...]
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Survivor Affirmations: I Live an Authentic Life, Lessons from Big Mama Thornton (podcast episode)
In this compelling episode of the We Survive Abuse podcast, we dive into the powerful life and legacy of blues legend [...]

Cathy Hughes and The Quiet Storm: Healing on the Airwaves
âGood evening, sweetheartâŠâThose few words, whispered through radios across America, werenât just an introductionâthey wer [...]

I Will Survive: How Survivor Gloria Gaynor Keeps Inspiring Decades After the Release of Grammy Winning Song
originally published 2/8/ 2016At First I Was Afraid... When we have been wounded we must heal. To do that, I think we [...]

The Art of Reflective Thinking in 8 Steps (with infographic)
I saw a woman share her very personal relationship story in a video this week.There was a lot of discussion about whether sh [...]

The Truth From Pam and Aunt Esther: Naming the Disrespect Women Were Taught To Ignore
There are men who speak to women with deep disrespect â regularly.
And we rarely show it honestly.
Some folks will get off [...]

Around These Parts We Support Survivor Megan Thee Stallion
Megan Thee Stallion is more than a chart-topping artistâshe's a symbol of resilience, strength, and unwavering courage. In [...]

Black History Month Means Honoring the Humanity of the Women Who Loved Us Here (Musical Playlist Included)
 updated from 2/2/ 2025 Without Black women, the miracles ofÂ
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