Surviving Domestic Violence: From Victim to Survivor, Discovering Healing is Possible
My name is Cat and I am a proud survivor of domestic violence #survivorsnotvictims #survivingandthriving. For the next three months I'm blocking all my other posts and focusing solely on my story as a survivor of domestic violence. While my story is engaging we aren't going to start as the beginning for a very important reason. In order to start recovering the most important element is for a victim to see a way out. By visualizing a life free from trauma, I was able to start building a life that reflected who I really am. The person that had been stifled, belittled and lost inside the chaos of abuse was still faintly breathing deep within my spirit. My journey to manifest my future and begin healing started with the simple awareness that my broken spirit was not the real me. The twisted and sick identity I had accepted was violently prescribed to me by a sadistic criminal using me as a source for his narcissistic personality. Somewhere beneath all the mani...