Trauma

“The system isn’t broken; we just haven’t built it.”

Sometimes it is much easier to be outraged by someone else’s victimhood than your own.

I am able to liberate myself from constructs and systems that don’t serve me and that often oppress me and others.

“There is funding for handling a crisis, and advocacy after violence, but not much for programming to change the behavior of those who use violence. To prevent future violence it takes a sustained investment.”

I feel there is no way of healing from this without the support and collaboration of others.

“When there are no options for someone to stay in a hotel or shelter,” Delaney says, “they are given a tent and driven to an encampment because there is nowhere else to go.”

They say if you have a secret, you should tell it to a willow.

White people often turn their gaze on people of color to gain knowledge, instead of back on their own communities

One of the stories we are following in this COVID-19 world is how women and children are finding safety in homes when sheltering in place includes domestic abuse.

I am still the process of discovering what love looks like for me. As a woman, I was told what love was supposed to look and feel like, without any input from my own spirit and body.

What I want our communities to talk about: how generational trauma affects our financial wellbeing. We can learn and unlearn traumatic events that might be affecting us today, unconsciously sabotaging our own wellbeing.

I worked my way from a too-young, abusive marriage to college as a single mom, then focused feverishly on my