What happens when survivors are given space, safety, and a blank page?

The body writes back.

This collaborative collection, created through the Sexual Violence Resource Center’s Healing Through Writing program, is a testament to courage, voice, and reclamation. Under the guidance of Best Selling Author Leah Bomar, survivors came together to explore journaling, poetry, and storytelling as tools for reclaiming agency after trauma.

These pages hold grief and tenderness, rage and humor, fear and hope. They hold the quiet and the loud, the broken and the rebuilding. Each story is a spark, a reclamation of power, a shout from the dark into the light: I exist. I am here. My voice matters.

Healing is messy. Healing is nonlinear. Healing is shimmering hope filled with courage, community, self-discovery and FUN!

Thank you for standing with survivors.