We cannot choose how our story started, but we can choose our story will end...
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Our mission
Our stories have power.
For years it worked against us — keeping us small, keeping us silent. But told, and told together, that same power becomes proof that no one is alone, and forces a world that looks away to see what it means to live with this.
These are the stories we tell here — real, heartfelt, in their own words.
Featured stories
Recently told, the silence broken
01 · Annica Vidales · July 2026
Reborn in Rhythm
That night, I informed my mother I'd leave the next morning. Social services had finally gotten me an apartment where I could stay temporarily. I packed the necessities for survival. My studies were getting put aside. Those who knew nothing of the events talked about me among their peers. Meanwhile, a never-ending headache would make itself known. I never talked about my childhood experiences. Forgiveness was my…
Read this story 02 · Monique Otterspoor · July 2026
A Journey from Pain to Purpose
Gradually, I regained my physical and mental state. I realize I can handle my life and happiness and must instigate change. My life turned around 180 degrees — I noticed…
03 · Cecilia Marie Segada · July 2026
Writing this book didn't erase my past, but it transformed my relationship with it.
Why this exists
This is not a message board. Every story here is an account of a real person who chose to be counted. That is what we make visible, one story at a time.
1 in 6
women in the U.S. has been the victim of attempted or completed rape.
1 in 33
men in the U.S. has experienced attempted or completed rape.
68%
of sexual assaults are never reported to the authorities.
Jean Dorff — founder
A note from the founder
I started this mission to show the world how many of us carry a story.
I told mine. I could spend my life trying to tell yours too — but nothing I write will ever be as powerful as your story, told in your own words. Anonymously, if that is what safety asks of you. The words matter more than the name.
Because the world cannot respond to what it does not know. And if the world is not listening yet — maybe we are simply not loud enough.
— Jean Dorff
Bestselling author of Broken Silence
Awareness
Articles, statistics, and news about life after.
A working resource for survivors, families, journalists, and researchers — grounded in what survivors themselves tell us.
The vow that made this place
“I tell my story so there is one less story to tell.”
— every survivor who has spoken here