Tag: Break the Cycle
Breaking the Cycle of Generational Trauma
Pain has a way of traveling from one generation to the next. It often begins quietly. A child grows up in a home marked by abuse, neglect, addiction, fear, or dysfunction. Those experiences shape how they see themselves, how they relate to others, and what they come to believe is normal. Without healing, those wounds…
Domestic Violence Questions Every Survivor Asks
Domestic violence leaves survivors with questions that don’t disappear overnight. Some questions come immediately after the abuse ends. Others surface months or even years later as healing begins. I know because I asked many of these same questions myself. After surviving more than three years of domestic violence, I spent years trying to understand what…
The Police Were the First to Speak for Me
Revised on July 28, 2026 There are moments in life when someone else’s courage changes the course of your future. For me, that courage came from police officers who chose to listen, investigate, and intervene when I was too afraid to speak for myself. I was twenty-one.