Minnesota takes a bold step forward as a Senate committee moves to define grooming as a crime, following a survivor's harrowing testimony that exposes the urgent need for change.
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#MN #CitizenPortal #SurvivorVoice #ChildProtection #MinnesotaEducation #EducatorAccountability
Group home years. Eight to thirteen.
Clock stopped. World stayed physical.
State-sponsored ritual.
Nine. Violation.
#CarceralState #SurvivorVoice #SystemFailure
You don’t carry the memory every day.
But when it shows up, it reminds you that fear, pain, and anger meant something—you cared enough to fight.
Epiphanies arrive uninvited.
#SurvivorVoice #HealingJourney #Reflection #LifeAfterCancer #BlueSky
The house smelled like the holidays. Then the phone rang. When justice calls, answer. Read Home for the Holidays on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/michelletennantnicholson/p/home-for-the-holidays #WhenJusticeCalls #TruthTelling #SurvivorVoice #MemoirInProgress #WriteTheTrauma
The house smelled like the holidays. Then the phone rang. When justice calls, answer.
Read Home for the Holidays on Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/michelle...
#WhenJusticeCalls #TruthTelling #SurvivorVoice #MemoirInProgress #WriteTheTrauma
How to love a narcissist father:
stand very still while he turns you into air.
mistake silence for safety and safety for survival.
call endurance “filial.”
discover the only love left is saying — I don’t.
#poetry
#micropoetry
#survivorvoice
#truthinart
#rawwriting
#womenwhowrite
#writersofbsky
image shows outline of a woman with thick crayon lines on her back that represents a burden.
First day of Art Therapy. It will continue for 24 weeks then I will be doing some EMDR. The image I have drawn was an answer to the question: What does your condemning inner voice 'look like'? #ArtTherapy #ADHDArtist #TraumaInformed #TraumaRecovery #Survivor #SurvivorVoice #StillHere #Unmasking
Key DOJ-released files, source disclosures, link in comments.
#Survivor
#EpsteinFiles
#ChildTrafficking
#SurvivorVoice
#EndImpunity
#JusticeForVictims
#EpsteinTransparencyAct
#FBIFailure
#Trauma
Silence often protects someone—but it’s rarely you. Ask yourself who gains comfort, control, or power when you keep the truth locked inside. Awareness is the first step toward reclaiming your voice.
#SpitYourTruth #SpeakUp #TruthHurts #HealingJourney #SurvivorVoice #MentalHealth
There’s a moment many remember—the first time your pain was dismissed, rushed, or ignored. When comfort mattered more than truth, you learned to shrink. But your pain was never the problem.
#SpitYourTruth #HealingJourney #EmotionalTruth #SurvivorVoice #MentalHealth
Some truths stay buried not because they’re unimportant—but because telling them would change everything. If speaking costs you people, peace, or protection
#SpitYourTruth #SpeakYourTruth #TruthHurts #HealingJourney #RawTruth #SurvivorVoice #MentalHealthAwareness #YouAreNotAlone
When you grow up in chaos, the body can mistake confusion for connection.
This is what rewiring looks like — learning the difference between being pulled in and being pulled under.
#TraumaHealing #CPTSDRecovery #HealingJourney #SurvivorVoice #EmotionalHealing #BreakingCycles
In restorative justice, survivors define what justice means to them. For some, it's an apology. For others, it's understanding or lasting change. For everyone, it's safety.
If you could redefine justice, what would it include?
#SurvivorVoice #JusticeThatHeals #RestorativeChange #DomesticViolence
Question: “Why didn’t you just leave?”
Answer: Because abuse is a cage built of fear, guilt, shame, love, hope, and confusion. Leaving means finding the key to every one of those locks. And that takes time, courage, and immense strength.
#DomesticAbuseAwareness #SurvivorVoice
Hello friends, They scanned my brain. They missed my story. New piece on nicotine, dementia trials, and the ethics of consent.
open.substack.com/pub/quitcoac...
#BrainHealth #InformedConsent #SurvivorVoice #QuitStrong
SafeLives National Poetry Day post with illustration of a hand writing a heart and text that reads "And so I live in a shell. I do quite well. And what have I learned. Without the love I have yearned. Babs (Domestic abuse survivor)".
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#NationalPoetryDay #DomesticAbuse #VAWG #SurvivorVoice
#TraumaSurvivor #DVawareness #CPTSD #SoftGritSpoonie #InvisibleScars #AbuseRecovery #SurvivorVoice #DisabledAndHealing #EmotionalAbuse #BlueskySupport
I’m in therapy. I gave financial control to my family.
I will never gamble again.
But others still suffer.
This fight is for them, too.
For dignity. For justice.
#MentalHealthMatters #ResponsibleGaming #SurvivorVoice #FightForJustice
Two albums. One tells the truth. One takes the shame off your pleasure.
I built both from scratch—because I needed to, and because someone out there needs to hear them.
🎧 Watch here: youtu.be/yQJI57CZcYo
#ThisIsNotShame #TruthRunsThroughMe #AIStorytelling #SurvivorVoice #HealingMusic #WomenOver50
You don’t get to rush someone’s healing.
You don’t know how long they’ve been surviving.
Now I Feel Everything is a song for the ones who held it together for everyone else
and are just now falling apart in peace.
Full video: youtu.be/8YJbNMs9Szw?...
#EmotionalTruth #SurvivorVoice #ElodiaReynaRojas
SafeLives post with text that reads "our core activities: best practice, workforce development and influencing. #FindWhatWorksHelpItHappen".
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What do we do at SafeLives?
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#SafeLivesStrategy #FindWhatWorksHelpItHappen #WholePicture #BestPractice #WorkforceDevelopment #SurvivorVoice
SafeLives post with text that reads "I’m alive because of Marac (Survivor). An Idva is an affront to abuse itself – someone standing beside you to say, this shouldn’t be happening, and you deserve better (Brandy, Survivor). #FindWhatWorksHelpItHappen".
That’s how we make systems work for survivors.
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#SafeLivesStrategy #FindWhatWorksHelpItHappen #WholePictureFramework #SystemsChange #SurvivorVoice
“No two cancer journeys are alike.
Breast Cancer Conquered Together is mine…
I share my story in the hope it will encourage women to get checked and go for there screening. #earlydetection #saveslives
#getchecked
#MyBreastCancerStory #UniqueJourneys #SurvivorVoice #hope #HopeLivesHere”
Don't want to die; just want penance. #MentalHealthMatters
#SuicidalNotSuicidal
#CrisisNotOver
#SilentStruggles
#JustWantPeace
#SurvivorVoice
#PenanceNotDeath
#PoetryOfPain
#BleedingInk
#DarkLines
#LyricalConfession
#TruthInLines
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A messy, furious, feminist howl against generational gaslighting, trauma buried under kitsch, and the lie of “he didn’t mean it.” Happy, Texas digs deep and doesn’t flinch. #TBR #SurvivorVoice #SystemicAbuse #QueerNarrative #PopArtPain #bartplantenga
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