SHARING OUR STORIES

 This week's affirmation reads  - I have a divine right to share my domestic violence story. For I know that when each one teach one, then together we reach one. I know that I have the power to help lift the stain of shame surrounding violence and violent relationships. I know that I can choose to become a vessel for good by using my experiences to strengthen and empower other survivors through education and affirmation. I know that we each of us can do our best to help ourselves and others heal as we learn and share so that we may live violence free. For I know there is NO WAR IN LOVE.

Having faced the sting of crux from violent relationships, the shame of our suffering, can bind us in ways inconceivable, as the reality strikes of what an awful experience we've endured at the hands of Domestic And Intimate Partner Violence.

And in that shame, the deepest vestiges of both our reflective external and internal self-defining messages might become skewed, subsequently muffling not only the suffering we've endured within these relationships, but also the victory won in surviving them.

For there is so much healing to be had in sharing our stories of pain, and of redemption, of triumph and of wars won in our plight of procuring quality livelihoods - not only for the sake of ourselves, but also in aim of opening the window of light, so as to help free someone else from the bondage of violence, dystrophy and the malevolence of suffering endured from such volatile experiences.

As we strengthen our resolve on our healing journey in learning new ways of socializing and connecting with both ourselves and the world around us, it is here, in this culmination of integrating our life's experiences along with the wisdom gained in our relating to others, that especially prove a challenge in sharing the atrocities of terror and torture suffered at the hands of an abuser.

However in braving such a deed, it becomes our duty of service, as we vow to heal, so as to overcome such a difficulty, in invoking our power to lift the stain of fear and embarrassment,  shame and disembowelment, from the countless projections survivors face within an imperfect society reflecting an inversion of happenstance shroud in the falsity that victims of violence are somehow deserving of, or are to blame for the violations committed against us.

In cultivating the strength to share our struggles of survival, we give others the permission and courage to heal and to do the same.

And while our individual experiences of violence might prove unique in certain vestiges, violence as a whole is a universal phenomena, transcending all races, religions, ages, and sexes, making our empowering confessions of survivorship, an essential means of strengthening the survivor community, helping us all to use our collective experiences to shine bright lights on the injustices of destruction caused by violence.

For we are not alone. And together we each of us can use our victories to teach survivor communities of children and women, and all else who suffer at the hands of violence, how to live violence free, by providing the tools necessary to choose healthy relationships over dysfunctional ones, and virtues over carnality.

We each of us represent the change we've been waiting for. And our voices are the catalyst for such a journey of change.

Education and affirmation then, are the mighty tools that help us build the bridges towards violence awareness in helping to eradicate some of the most dystrophic phenomena of our time.

So may we each of us use the strength of our life's experiences as the key to unlocking the prison walls of future survivors, until all of us can be free.

For we have the power to uplift, encourage, and help heal the vestiges of violence happening across the globe.

Shall we use it so as to join the fight for good...for justice...and most of all...for freedom from the harm caused by Social And Domestic Violence.

-OASISAGAINSTVIOLENCE