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Invest in Yourself: Overcome Financial Hurdles to Afford College
AUDIO: https://empowerminty.gumroad.com/l/idayfFor many women, healing includes leaving the confinements of their current "comfort zone".In this [...]
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.....How often [...]
Spotting the Red Flags: Early Warning Signs of Manipulative and Abusive People (audio/podcast)
Manipulators don’t wear name tags, but their actions can reveal their true intentions. In this [...]
Women Healing Among One Another is Not Hate (audio short)
Can human rights organizations protect multiple groups without asking women and girls to disappear?It truly bothered me that Amnesty took aim at a [...]
Humiliation as a Control Tactic: What Mattie Crawford’s Defiance Teaches Us (audio ep)
What happens when somebody else has the institutional power to decide what kind of woman you are—and the power to punish you when you refuse to obey?
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Spotlight on IDVAAC: A Legacy of Protecting Black Survivors
Because we deserve more than band-aids. We deserve truth, safety, and justice—designed with us in mind.What Is IDVAAC?
The Institute on Dom [...]
Speaking Truth for Girls in a World that Prefers Silence (audio)
Welcome to We Survive Abuse—a powerful, unapologetic space where Survivors’ voices take center stage. Hosted by Tonya GJ Prince, a veteran advocate wi [...]
Survivor Affirmation: I Honor My Journey and Reclaim My Energy
Anytime you put your time, energy, and heart into something you take a risk. It may not turn out as you had hoped. That part always hurts.Still [...]
🧨 Myth-Busting the “Racial Harmony” Era: What We Weren’t Supposed to Say
Many believe the 1980s to early 2000s were a time of racial harmony in America, especially within the women's movement to end violence. But for Black, [...]
When Chaos Is a Weapon: How Some Partners Use Crisis to Control You
And why you’re not “mean” for wanting peaceIt starts with a bad decision.Maybe a DUI.Maybe lo [...]
🎤💰 Money, Respect & the Woman’s Mic: Black Women’s Songs About Money, Power, and Respect
updated from April 2025
"We're supposed to pretend that if we are "good girls," a "good man" will find us and [...]
When Love Puts You in Danger: How Domestic Violence Impacts Friends
One day we will
learn to stop
blaming women and
girls for the safeguardin [...]
Get Caught Up and Protect: FBI Sextortion Warning
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How Some Teachers Are on the Frontlines of Fighting Child Sexual Abuse
Did you know that some victims of child sexual abuse prefer to confide in teachers rather than parents? Even those from "good" loving homes? No one [...]
When Women’s Murders Are Hijacked: How Race, Politics, and Silence Derail the Fight Against Male Violence
Too often, when a woman is murdered, the conversation shifts quickly away from her life, her safety, and the systemic failures that left her vulnera [...]
Future-Proofing Your Mind in an Unpredictable World
From guest contributor Jonathan Garner/shamekills.info. This blog post contains affiliate links. If you click on these links and make a purchase, [...]
When Violence Enters the Home, Children Bleed Too—Even Without a Bruise.
Let’s stop pretending.
Let’s stop pretending that domestic violence is something that only happens “between [...]
Imagine If We Told Men to “Be Kind” as Often as We Tell Women
You can absolutely tell who is male and who is female. Men have been raging at NataleeBFitness all week long [...]
“Why Do We Treat Male ‘Change’ Like a Sacred Revelation Instead of a Responsibility?”
A man "changes".Why do we women receive this as our "marching orders"?Do men do this? NO. They treat o [...]
Stephan Smerk Pleads Guilty in 1994 Slaying of Virginia Mother Robin Lawrence
*48Hours had a female FBI expert who shared valuable insight. In her opinion the murder was like [...]
When History Becomes Pressure: How Black Women Are Asked to Carry More
If learning about the burdens carried by Black women yesterday becomes another reason we are expected to carry everyone today, then the lesson has bee [...]
Because She Sang, We Speak: Honoring Billie Holiday’s Legacy of Truth
If you are silent about your pain, they will kill you and say that you enjoyed it.- Zora Neale Hurston
Before there were hashtags.Before there were v [...]
Violence Against Women Always Looks for an Inside Woman
Like most acts of violence against women,invasion of boundaries doesn’t just show up with brute force.It counts on betrayal.It counts on a hand extend [...]
You Don’t Have to Prove Your Worth: Reclaiming Women’s Right to Safety, Dignity, and Respect
Dominance:
Turning every women's space into
"his" too but in different font.Too often, women are pushed into defending our own [...]
Men Have a Duty to Be Safe Around Women and Children
We need to say this more often, and we need to say it without apology: men have a duty to be safe around women and children.
Do not [...]
Surviving Abuse Daily: News for Survivors
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“Why Are Women Still Told to Have Faith in Men Who ‘Rebrand’ Themselves?”
“If his change requires your suffering to prove it, it isn’t change — it’s another performance.”
— WeSurviv [...]
Who’s Really Saying “Stop Harming Her”?
You want women to fight for men when those same men will not even say, “Stop doing that.”
Too often, when vi [...]
When Safety Isn’t Simple: How Domestic Violence Hits Differently for People with Neurodivergence
Tonya GJ Prince | We Survive Abuse
There’s something the world needs to say out loud more often: Sa [...]
No Gratitude, No Quilt: A Lesson from My Mama (and a Little Fried Chicken)
*Updated for 2025Several months ago, my mom asked me to pick up some hair accessories like the ones [...]
Featuring Bunmi: Who Benefits When Women Are Encouraged to Leave Their Sexual Boundaries Open to Revision?
Who benefits when women are encouraged to understand their sexual boundaries as especially open to revision?Women have spent a great deal of histo [...]
Healing When Your Abuser Is Still Welcome at the Table
The betrayal no one wants to talk about—but every Survivor remembers.There’s a kind of betrayal that lives in the silence.In the sideways glan [...]
Even Warriors Need a Well: Faith, Feminism, and the Right to Refuel (w/affirmations)
People may mean well.But to insist that women fighting for justice — especially women working to protect other women — must also abandon faith [...]
🌿 My Self-Soothe Journal
🌿 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 [...]
