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Braver Collective is a healing community built by, with and for survivors of sexual trauma.

10/30/2025

Writing can be healing. ✍️💛 Here’s a gentle way to start:

Step 1: Read a poem or passage that moves you. Let a word or line catch your attention.
Step 2: Write freely from that spark. Don’t overthink—let your pen wander for 5–10 minutes.
Step 3: Read your words out loud. Listen to yourself. Witness your story.

Even a few minutes can help you release, reflect, and reclaim your voice. 🌿

Tap the link to explore the full exercise and start writing your healing journey: https://bravercollective.org/resources/writing-as-medicine

10/28/2025

“𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝—𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞.

I’m a survivor of narcissistic abuse, sexual assault, and systemic failure. I share this not for pity, but for truth. For every woman who’s been silenced, dismissed, or retraumatized by the very systems meant to protect her. I write this to reclaim my voice—and help others find theirs.”

👉Click the link in bio to read Kimberly’s full story: “Marching Through Madness — My Survival Story”

Meet Kimberly Anderson, a survivor whose strength redefines resilience. After enduring narcissistic abuse, sexual assault, near-fatal injuries, and unimaginable betrayal by the justice system—she chose to fight for her life, her voice, and her purpose.

Her story is more than survival — it’s proof that healing is possible, no matter the odds.

𝘽𝙞𝙤: Kimberly is a Houston-based poet, artist, and trauma-informed educator whose work bridges healing and empowerment. Her advocacy lives through poetry and visual art that speak to resilience, reclamation, and emotional truth. She is the author of A Heart Devoured, a raw collection that reflects her journey of survival and spiritual restoration.

10/23/2025

𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚, and you don’t have to do it alone. 💜

Braver Collective is a supportive, inclusive healing community created by, with, and for survivors of sexual trauma.

Together, we’re building the kind of healing space we’ve always needed.

Together, we’re here—holding space for you, for us, as a collective of survivors.

This is a space to grieve, to heal, and to find our path forward—together.

Here’s how survivors can begin to connect, reflect, and feel supported:

✨ Read and share survivor stories
✨ Explore free, trusted healing resources created by survivors and professionals
✨ Connect with others who truly understand

Wherever you are in your journey, you are not alone.

Visit BraverCollective.org to explore more.

10/23/2025

We are the children who once trusted.
We are the ones whose innocence was taken from us.

In Cynthia Hansford’s “The Monster I Trusted,” we are reminded that monsters can hide in the places we feel safest, thriving in moments meant to protect us.

Our voices. Our stories. Especially the ones that tell difficult truths.
They can make people uncomfortable—but sharing them honors our younger selves and lights a path toward courage, resilience, and healing.

𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐢𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐂𝐲𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚’𝐬 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲.

Cynthia Hansford (she/her) is a wife, mom, writer, and literacy specialist. Her work explores resilience, silence, and survival, and her stories give voice to difficult truths, hoping to spark empathy, healing, and courage in others.
💜Follow for more healing and supportive resources. BraverCollective.org – a healing community built by, with and for survivors of sexual trauma.⁠ ⁠⁠
We believe our lived experience as survivors holds deep wisdom and healing happens in community. We’ve built a space co-designed with survivors where you can read and share stories, learn about vetted resources, and engage with insights from other survivors. Healing is possible. We are building what we need, together.⁠ ⁠

10/22/2025

💔 Being in a relationship doesn’t make abuse any less real. More than 12 million people experience intimate partner violence every year. You are seen. You are believed. ✨

10/21/2025

🚫 Being in a relationship does not give anyone permission or consent for sexual assault.

We recently saw a random person comment on one of our survivor’s stories, claiming that being in a relationship somehow makes abuse “less real” or “less harmful.” To anyone suggesting this: 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐟.

For anyone experiencing intimate partner violence, we see you and we’re holding space for you. There’s a collective of SA survivors who have your back. 💛

10/21/2025

This Intimate Partner Violence Awareness Month, we’re sharing hotlines and resources for anyone who needs support. If you—or someone you love—is going through intimate partner abuse, help is just a call or text away.

✨ Save this post or share it with someone who might need it.

10/20/2025

Kristina Orchard (she/her), in her story “From a Q***r Elder Survivor to you who might be beginning the journey of recovery,” reminds us that healing can move both fast and slow — but it does happen. By continuing to show up for ourselves and gently digging toward wholeness, we can find our way to a place of peace. 🌱

“On November 1, 2020, 33 years after a chance article in a magazine by a survivor, awakened me to my buried memories, and with diligent physical, emotional, and spiritual practice, a quiet feeling of acceptance, peace, and poignancy about my father came to me.”

From remembering to healing, Kristina offers us this truth:

💬 “Never forget,
No matter your fear or pain,
Or any chatter of the mind,
HEALING HAPPENS.”

Read Kristina’s full survivor story at: https://bravercollective.org/stories/from-a-q***r-elder-survivor-to-you-who-might-be-beginning-the-journey-of-recovery
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🖤 This story was originally published in Beneath the Soil Volume III, a collaborative zine by and , featuring artwork and writing from q***r survivors of sexual violence.

10/16/2025

💜 “my erratic, nonlinear thing” by Calista Requijo

Calista invites us into the messy, chaotic, and beautiful side of healing — a place where it’s okay to feel it all, stumble, and rise again. Her words give us a portal to witness in its full, unfiltered form.

Thank you, Calista, for sharing your journey with such vulnerability and courage, and for reminding us that healing doesn’t need to be tidy to be real. 🌱

Bio: Calista Requijo is a Filipina American copywriter and writer from Queens, New York. Her work explores , the body, and softness as resistance.

🔗Click to read her full survivor story: https://bravercollective.org/stories/my-erratic-nonlinear-thing

10/14/2025

Writing isn’t just words on a page—it can be medicine. ❤️‍🩹

“Imagine if writing could be healing for you. It has been for me. I didn’t start thinking and talking about my sexual trauma until I was 33 years old. And at that time, it certainly never occurred to me to write about it.

A great part of the damage of sexual abuse is the silencing. So many people don’t want to hear about it. When you finally break through the silencing – whether it’s communicating the truth to yourself, another individual or a whole bunch of people – you chip away at the wall, the prison, which was built around your voice, around your capacity to express yourself.”

𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝, “𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞” 𝐛𝐲 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐉𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐧: https://bravercollective.org/resources/writing-as-medicine

Donna is the Founder of Time To Tell and an author and advocate, helping survivors of sexual abuse reclaim their voices through writing, mindfulness, and storytelling.

10/09/2025

🧾 Evidence is a fearless, account of surviving assault. J. Wood turns her trauma into undeniable proof, demanding to be seen, heard, and believed. Let’s witness her story and remind her—she is not alone.

Click to read J. Wood’s full poem and witness the courage in every word: https://bravercollective.org/stories/evidence

J. Wood (she/her) creates testimonial non-fiction to amplify the voices of fellow affected by **e, in**st, and domestic violence and resist the stigma of mental illness related to these preventable traumas.

Her work appears in The Untold Stories Survivors’ Magazine, and she is currently editing a memoir about surviving an assault at fourteen. She is currently editing a testimonial memoir about surviving an aggravated assault at the age of fourteen while growing up near the Southside of Chicago. It is her hope to encourage survivors and their families to find community, treatment, justice, LOVE and JOY on their path toward healing and wholeness.

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