Great job everyone on your progress! It's definitely encouraging when we can look at our progress and see that we are moving in the right direction.

I realized just a few days ago, that I have made quite a bit of progress -- I had two very significant incidents happen in the past month - one was a sexual assault and the other was a significant person verbally attacking me and thus making a place I thought was safe for me not so much.
Six months ago...I would have landed in the hospital over the combination of difficult situations occur. But I didn't. I am actually continuing to move forward in spite of all of it. And when I realized that fact -- that I would have completely self destructed before over these - probably just over the assault...it shows a lot of growth and progress.

Slowly, I am able to not take on the blame of everything negative. I am learning to stand up for myself. Speak up for my needs. Wow...I am moving in the right direction finally.