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Our blog features the story of one of the participants here at SafeHope Home who wanted to share her story with you. The story will be anonymous to protect her identity, all the other details of her journey will be left as is. We hope that through this blog, you will gain insight into the issue of human trafficking that is happening here in Canada and that you’ll be encouraged to see that change, though a long journey, is possible.
Milestones
Hey guys, Ruby here again. So the 20th of February was my 18 months sober! I'm so thankful that I've been able to create a new life, and have a second chance. I'm eternally grateful to SafeHope Home, for giving me ( and everyone else that comes in) the opportunity to better themselves. This is the longest I've been sober in my entire life, I think that since I started using I wasn't even sober for 18 months total throughout my using. The staff and volunteers keep our sober dates and congratulate us, usually having a little celebration every 6 months. Honestly coming here was probably the best decision I've made, being able to support other...
My Trauma in Poetry…
TRIGGER WARNING: includes graphic language, violent language, discussion involving narcotics/alcohol Hello to all my Angels out there, I hope this month is finding you well; the cold will soon be out, and the warm will be in! Although the snow is beautiful, personally, I am looking forward to splashing around into some springtime rain. I love rainy days, thunderstorms, and the smell the rain brings: fresh, clean, and new. Today I would like to share two poems with you that I have written; one is about living in addiction and the other is about surviving being human trafficked. I am putting a severe...
Valentines (Galentines)
Hey guys, Ruby here. So today (February 15th) we had our Galentines day! We each got each other little gifts today, and it was very nice to wake up and exchange them. We also had really cute cake at program today, that said Happy Galentines, which was also adorable. The staff also had a gift exchange of their own, so it was exciting seeing them bring in the gifts for one another. To be completely honest. I don't usually care for Valentine's Day. Or I didn't care for it. I actually had so much fun picking out gifts for the other women, and exchanging it, and if I'm being honest, it was more heartfelt than anything a partner has gotten...
Picking Up Where I Left Off…
It's Angel Warrior 1Thousand here; I'm sorry, I know It's been a while since I've blogged. I truly hope all the Angels out there reading this are doing well. To be completely transparent, I lost all motivation and was stagnant in my recovery process for a few weeks. This is a normal part of the recovery process, however, and getting back to a motivated state is important, which I have now found myself slowly doing day by day in the last week. On February 7th I will hit my 90's day sober mark! Although this is a huge milestone for me, it has also been a part of the reason for my loss of motivation; I felt...
Commitment
Hey guys, it's Ruby and today I want to talk about commitment. I've committed to this program at SafeHope and I know that even though it gets tough sometimes; I need to stay committed to this program, and my recovery, for my own survival. But there are other small commitments you can focus on too. Something that was very hard for me to commit to at first was going to the gym, I was constantly making excuses on why I didn't want to go, or couldn't go, whether it was I was too hot, my back hurt, or I just wasn't in the mood. But I had to assess why I didn't want to commit. So once I figured that out, I worked on doing things to change my...
The Start of My Story
Trigger Warning: The following blog post talks about sexual, physical and emotional abuse. Hello to All My Fellow Warriors, We are now into our second month of 2023 with the cold weather letting us know we are alive!! I celebrated 90 days sober on February 7th, so I thought this week I would share some of my story with all the Angels out there. It is not tragic as I used to view it; my past actually saved my life. I was born to a young mother of only 13 years old who left me in the hospital. With no one from my birth family claiming me at 11 days old, I was adopted by the family I grew up with and knew as the only family I ever...
Self-Esteem
Trigger Warning: Today's post involves themes of bullying, drug use, alcohol use Hey everyone, Ruby here again, and today I wanna write about self-esteem. Growing up I didn't have very good self-esteem. When other girls started to hit puberty, and develop, I got made fun of for having a flat chest, which led me to stuff my bra, which led to tissue falling out in P.E., and I got made fun of more. I was made fun of for being skinny, and short as a kid. I couldn't really control being skinny as a child, I would eat fairly big portions, but I was also super active. I got made fun of for being emo, then I got made fun of for being basic. Then...
Learning From My actions
Hi everyone, Ruby here. So the reason for my hiatus this time was that I had my phone taken away for a month due to a conversation that was had. At first, I was super angry about it, I wanted to just leave. But after a few days without it, I actually started thinking about things. Why it was taken, and that there could have been worse repercussions than losing my phone. It's actually made me more focused on my recovery and that there's more to life than being glued to my phone screen. I started socializing more and being out of my room most of the time. Even with getting my phone back, I'm not on it as often, and when having a...
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