Sunshine Faye Media

03/04/2026

For years…
I was surviving things I didn’t even have words for yet.

Confusion.
Chaos.
Loving someone who was breaking me.

Today I’m a published author.
A storyteller.
A woman who finally chose herself.

Healing isn’t loud.
Sometimes it’s just waking up one day and realizing…

you’re not the same girl anymore.

And the girl who once cried on the bathroom floor?

She’d be so proud of the woman who kept going. 🤍

03/03/2026

Nobody talks about this part…

The part where you KNOW they’re toxic…
but your body is still attached to them.

So you leave…
and go back.
and leave…
and go back again.

Not because you’re weak
but because your nervous system got addicted to survival mode.

That’s the part I wrote about.
The part people don’t say out loud.

03/03/2026

She thought it was love.
Marriage. Kids. 12 years.

But abuse doesn’t always look like violence…
sometimes it looks like silence.

Sadie said something that still doesn’t sit right with me.

“I learned to ask once… and if he didn’t stop, I would let it happen.”

Let that sink in.

Not love.
Not consent.
Survival.

And when something unthinkable happened
she wasn’t protected.

She was blamed.

So she went numb.
Detached.
Just trying to survive her own life.

But she got out.

And now she lives a fairytale she once thought she didn’t deserve.

There are brighter days ahead.

🎙️ Episode 4 — Sadie — My Body Was Never Mine.
Stories We Weren’t Supposed to Tell

03/03/2026

I’m not petty…. Ok maybe a little…. What’s tea for some is healing for me.

03/02/2026

You ever love someone who slowly convinced you
that your reactions were the problem…

but never took accountability for what they did to you?

Yeah.

That’s not love.
That’s control dressed up as confusion.

My book is for those of us who had to figure that out the hard way.

03/02/2026

Some men don’t talk about it.
Not because it didn’t happen…
but because they were taught they weren’t allowed to.

Jeff said something that stayed with me:

“I would take the blame… even when it wasn’t me… just to protect my boys.”

Let that sink in.

Not weak.
Not passive.
Protective.

While the world tells men to be strong,
no one talks about what strength actually looks like inside a war zone.

Sometimes strength is:
Sleeping on the floor next to your kids so you know they’re safe
Taking hits so they don’t have to
Working three jobs while your life is falling apart
Documenting everything because you know one day you’ll need proof

Big boys don’t cry, right?

Or maybe…
they just cry where no one can see them.

This episode isn’t about blaming.
It’s about telling the truth we don’t hear enough:

Men can be victims too.
And surviving doesn’t make you less of a man
it proves exactly what kind you are.

🎙️ Episode 8: Jeff — Big Boys Don’t Cry
Stories We Weren’t Supposed to Tell

03/01/2026

Healing looks good on me….

03/01/2026

03/01/2026

Some stories don’t start with violence.
They start with being trained to tolerate it.

Trained to laugh off the comments.
Trained to accept the “small” jabs.
Trained to believe if you could just be better…
it wouldn’t escalate.

Until one day

it does.

And you don’t even recognize how far it’s gone
because you crossed the line a long time ago…
just slowly.

Mia said something I can’t stop thinking about:

“The woman in me said no more.”

Not when it first hurt.
Not when it got loud.
Not even when it got physical.

But in the moment she realized
this is not how my story ends.

She didn’t get saved.
She chose herself.

She calls herself
“the princess who slayed her own dragon.”

And maybe that’s what this is really about

Not the abuse.
Not the fear.
Not even the survival.

But the moment something inside of you
finally stands up and says:

enough.

If you’re still in it…
still questioning…
still waiting for the “right time”

listen to that voice.

Youre still in there.

And it might just save your life.

🖤

Sunshine Faye

Stories we weren’t supposed to tell
Episode 7– Mias story— The Princess Who Slayed Her Dragon.