I love that we never get pressure from Women’s Aid, it makes you feel safe and not on edge. It takes the anxiety away a bit and the procrastination of your worker coming out. Groups and activities and things that must be done that are daunting are made a lot easier and less stressful. It helps you re-wire your brain back to having faith in humanity and trust again and your own self-love self-worth self-trust and self-awareness.
You inspire strength in me when you say “yes you can do it”, it does not mean you don’t get it, but because you know there is no way to deal with tough shit consequences of this shit show called life, other than to turn your pain into Power.
Pushing yourself at the right time is not as important as actually seeing your own self-worth setting boundaries and consistently sticking to them and believing in myself but mostly acknowledging my achievements.
If Fife Women’s Aid support was to be a metaphor for me it would be that they are the added extra slats on a bridge across a ravine, between the life you are in, across to the life you want for yourself. For me the bridge is missing lots of slats and it is not possible to cross. Unlike people who have not experienced any type of abuse or trauma or mental illness who have all the slats and can walk over the bridge easily, we on the other hand have many missing slats in the bridge and Women’s Aid helps build the extra missing slats.
Women’s Aid makes it possible to cross the bridge of life and reach the life I want to live.