41: Rise Above

Faith will lead you to your next chapter 🙏🏻

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✝️ A Holiday weekend is an exciting time for many people, but those living in a Domestic Violence environment it can be terrifying.

✨️For those excited they have an extra day off from work, it means people living with DV homes.... have one extra day with their abuser.

It's all a series of patterns...
Patterns to control.

This just hits the more you read it 🙏🏻

You survived things that were never supposed to happen to a human heart.

You learned how to read silence like a warning sign.
How to shrink yourself to stay safe.
How to carry pain quietly because the world could not always see the bruises left on the soul.

And still — you survived.

Not because the abuse was small.
Not because it “made you stronger.”
But because somewhere inside you, even in the darkest moments, there remained a flicker that refused to go out.

That flicker is courage.

Survival after domestic violence is not simply leaving.
It is learning to breathe without fear.
To sleep without waiting for chaos.
To hear your own voice again after years of being silenced.
It is rebuilding a life from pieces someone else tried to break.

There is something sacred about survivors.
You carry proof that love should never hurt, control, humiliate, or destroy.
You know the value of gentleness because you lived without it.
You know the power of peace because you fought your way back to it.

Some scars will always exist.
But scars are not evidence of weakness.
They are evidence that the wound closed.

And maybe the most beautiful thing of all is this:

After everything meant to crush you…
you are still capable of love, of laughter, of hope, of dreaming, of becoming.

You are not what was done to you.
You are the person who survived it.

And that is extraordinary.

Domestic Violence is a pattern of control...
The question is, do you feel safe... to make a decision without FEAR of consequences from your partner... anger, the silent treatment, jealousy, etc.
This is all control to eventually stop you from going out without them or going out at all.

Reach out to us.
We are certified in Domestic Violence Awareness & Safety as well as Inight Community Coaching. Text us at: 732-665-4723 or DM us.

WE BELIEVE YOU.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FACT:

Having s*x with someone who is abusing you…
is not real consent.

When there’s fear, control, manipulation, or pressure involved,
that is s*xual abuse.

And it doesn’t stand alone.

It’s tied to psychological abuse.
It’s tied to emotional abuse.

It’s all domestic violence.

Let’s be clear:

If you feel like you have to say yes to keep the peace…
that’s not intimacy.
That’s coercion.

YOU DID NOTHING TO DESERVE YOUR ABUSE.