Thank you for having the courage and strength to share your story. Iโ€™m sure youโ€™ll never truly know all of the people that you have helped by sharing this and hopefully making them understand that they are not alone. One of my my friends shared with me the other day that when we shine the light in a healthy way on our not so perfect history we free it from our minds. Slowly but surely a clarity starts to happen, the burden weighs a little less. We also have social media (both positive and negative) and and I know I have spent most of my time going through it comparing (for the most part) my behind the scenes footage to their, what seems to be, highlight reel!!!! Iโ€™m not sure who said that but I know I heard it somewhere and never forgot it. I have a not so perfect story, not really ready to share it on the internet yet ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜œ, with some pretty โ€œyuckyโ€ rated material, mental and emotional trauma and I know personally that because of people like you who have gotten to the point where you can share something like this helps โ€œusโ€ whether you ever hear from โ€œusโ€ or not. You had me in tears because of the way you described how your experience impacted you, it was like you were in my head and I was hearing the words out loud. I have been told by many people that I wear a very concealing mask because when they hear my story they would have never thought that anything ever happened to me. Thatโ€™s what I am working on now, how to bring that darkness to the light and be okay with it all.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, I needed to hear this today. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜

โค๏ธ, Mandy Noorthoek-Roelofs (not sure if my name gets posted on here or not.๐Ÿ˜‹)

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