Do you ever ask yourself, “Who am I? And what is my mission?”
I have been working with my therapist on my identity.
Today, something broke open.
I uncovered a darkness I have been carrying since I was still in diapers.
For most of my life, I believed I was here to be the sacrificed one.
The one who loses.
The one who falls so someone else can survive.
Even as a child, something in me resisted.
I survived by accepting the role, but I refused to disappear inside it.
If I was going to be the one who suffered, I would still stand as a warrior.
But that was never my true identity.
That was survival.
I did not get here by myself.
But it is up to me to choose who I am now.
I am no longer the sacrifice.
I am:
Worthy.
Evolving.
Beloved.
A Warrior.
I do not fall on the sword anymore.
I stand in front of it.
I am here to protect.
To speak.
To end the silence around child sexual violence.