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You Are Not Alone

More than anything, you deserve to know this—you are not alone. We hope these stories find you like a friend, or a bit of light in the darkness.

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Lions and Sunflowers

I was emotionally and verbally abused for the first 16 years of my life or so by my father. That’s a hard thing for me to type. It’s an even harder thing for me to say out loud. My instinct is to clarify that I still had a good childhood by most accounts.

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For The Days When You Need a Reminder That You Are Worth the Fight

“Hope always seemed like something abstract to me. It was out there, somehow, just maybe not for me. But now I’ve learned that it’s a tangible thing.”

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What I Do Know

By remaining seated, I decided my life was worth holding onto. I was choosing to believe I mattered enough to do the work that had to follow…

About Trauma

Trauma results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening. It has lasting adverse effects on the individual's functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.1

Some statistics:

  1. 1 SAMHSA Trauma + Violence
  2. 2 Sidran Institute
  3. 3 US Department of Government Affairs

Resources

Trauma Survivors Network

Trauma Survivors Network is a community of patients and survivors looking to connect with one another and rebuild their lives after a serious injury.

National Child Traumatic Stress Network

Their mission is to raise standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families and communities through the United States.

Trauma Center at Justice Institute

The mission of the Trauma Center is to help individuals, families and communities that have been impacted by trauma and adversity to re-establish a sense of safety and predictability in the world, and to provide them with state-of-the-art therapeutic care as they reclaim, rebuild, and renew their lives.

Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN)

RAINN is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization. RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline (1.800.656.HOPE, online.rainn.org y rainn.org/es) in partnership with more than 1,000 local sexual assault service providers across the country and operates the DoD Safe Helpline for the Department of Defense.

Disclaimer: Although TWLOHA believes in the power of professional help, you are responsible for selecting the provider or treatment. TWLOHA cannot accept responsibility for any of the services provided by these or any other providers.

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