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Most people think trauma is the event itself…
But real trauma lives in the experience, the story we absorbed, and the patterns we had to build to survive.

When you understand this, you understand yourself.
And once you understand yourself, you can finally begin to heal.

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Sudan is suffering. Do you know why?
 Sudan’s story is painfully complex decades of coups, colonial scars, and foreign powers pulling the strings. Today, greed for gold, oil, and power fuels a war that’s starving millions. The world watches in silence while others profit from the chaos. #FreeSudan #SudanCrisis #StandWithSudan

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Waking Up from the Lie: Reclaiming Myself After a Lifetime of Being the Scapegoat
Art by Justine Cappelli - The Chicken Legged Workshop

They told me
you can’t be
the storm
and the flower

choose, they said

be soft or
be strong
never both

so i broke their rules
and grew
thorns on my petals

some days i cry
over broken wings
other days i break
the rules that broke me

both days i am powerful

they never taught us
that being tender
is its own kind
of rebellion

that letting yourself
be seen while you’re
still shaking
is bravery in bloom

that the hands
that say grace
carry claws
like promises kept

i am the quiet
and the scream
the prayer
and the battle cry
the open hand
and the sworded fist

the truth is
i am not either/or
i am both/and

i am the fragile
and the fierce

a song
of my own making

poem © Angi Sullins - www.angisullins.com
art by mowry