Awareness
At the beginning of the month, I planned on writing about October being Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Unfortunately, due to a recent situation I was in, I wasn't able to. Sometimes we meet people in our lives who seem like really good people and they turn out not to be. Being a survivor of domestic violence, this person I had been somewhat friends with stirred a lot of my past traumas. It is funny how a person can be doing so well and have the littlest of things happen to where their entire sense of safety and security can be gone again. I have had encounters with people in which it was lost but not nearly as much as this last one. We talked about personal things and even my blog post which had led to more questions and further in-depth discussions as they were curious. Sometimes those questions lead to tears and sometimes not so much. I've been pretty upfront and honest whenever anyone reaches out to me about my experiences as I want to be a voice and spread awareness. T...