All posts tagged: sexual assault

Back to the Beginning

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Hi, loves. I think it’s important to understand why I have a blog and how it started. Of course, anyone who knows me knows that I’ve been writing since I was five years old. I would sit in my room writing for hours on end, from stories to journal entries and it was always so healing to me. I’ve had my blog since 2014 (the year I graduated from high school). At first, my blog […]

Life After Sexual Assault

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I’ve been wanting to write about this ever since the Kavanaugh case began, and I’ve always been very open and honest about what happened to me, years back, but I’ve also been trying to focus on only positive feelings during my pregnancy. For those who don’t know, I was raped when I was sixteen years old, by a guy who was one of my closest friends (at the time). He knew me as a person, was close […]

Living with PTSD

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 Life can be scary and stressful, no doubt! But, with PTSD it just comes with the territory. When I was raped Sophomore year of high school, everything changed. I’ll remember the details of that night forever; the night ended with my hand punching my bathroom mirror, and a young, vulnerable me falling asleep with a bottle of something 90 proof. I couldn’t wrap my head around what had happened to me; so much of […]