@nyc_girl_in_va: I didn’t know I did this. The shaking. The quiet, uncontrollable movement my body makes when my mind thinks I’m safe… but my nervous system remembers otherwise. It wasn’t until one day at my child’s basketball practice. A fellow mom noticed. She reached out, placed her hand on my knee, and in that moment I saw what I had never seen in myself. Something so easy for others to miss — yet somehow, she knew. She knew I needed reassurance. She knew I needed that silent “I’ve got you.” That’s the thing about trauma — it doesn’t always show up loud. Sometimes it lives in your body. In the shakes. In the tension. In the moments you don’t even realize you’re still surviving. It’s been 14 years since my divorce from a man who almost took my life. And even now — 12, 13 years later — the effects remain. Healing doesn’t mean forgetting. It doesn’t mean your body suddenly stops remembering what your mind worked so hard to move past. But that moment reminded me of something important: we’re not meant to carry this alone. Sometimes healing looks like a stranger’s hand, a quiet acknowledgment, a reminder that you’re seen — even when you didn’t know you needed to be. If you carry trauma in ways you don’t always recognize, this is your reminder: you’re not broken. Your body learned how to keep you alive. And that matters #dvsurvivor #domesticabuseawareness #healing #dvawareness #fyp

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Tuesday 13 January 2026 15:00:00 GMT