self-help
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It took me years to admit to myself that I deserved to exist. After a long background of verbal abuse and emotional manipulation, I finally broke free—mostly by sheer will. And now I have something to say… To whoever hears this, I want you to know, that you are amazing. Despite your struggles, the pain,
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This video is directed toward men, but could easily be for anyone that was raised by a family, a school, or a culture where they were taught that it was better to stay quiet and get along than to have a personality, a gift, a truth… or really anything that might make the adults around
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Deep within me there has always been a disagreeable person, one that could have stood up to the adults that put me in a box as a child, the bad boss-bitches that made sure I never got ahead, the toxic family members that feared my voice and that hidden will within me that had always
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I’ve never been much of a talker myself, being pretty high up on the scale of introversion, but I used to mistakenly believe that big talkers got ahead in life and so I sold myself short for years because I wasn’t enough to get ahead, even in daily conversation with friends. For all of my
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There’d been a time when I thought I was like a turtle. Every time I stuck my head out of my shell I found five women waiting with two by fours ready to bash my skull in. A lovely picture, I know, but it seriously felt that way. Am I angry, bitter or resentful toward
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Not to get myself into too much trouble, although I’m pretty good at that, but the current culture where we’re pushed so hard to accept ourselves exactly as we are that we neglect to grow is troublesome to me. It’s true that it’s not polite to shame someone for being obese, for example, but is
Darcy Branwyn 