The Strength to Rise: Guided Reflections for Reclaiming Your Voice Subtitle: A Journal for Healing After Abuse, Shame, and Silence

The Strength to Rise is more than a journal—it’s a lifeline for survivors of domestic violence, emotional abuse, and the often unseen pain of secondary trauma. Created by a survivor, this 200-page guided journal offers a safe and validating space to reflect, rebuild, and reclaim your voice.

Whether you’re just leaving an abusive relationship or still processing years of pain and shame, this journal walks beside you, one page at a time.

What’s Inside:

A compassionate introduction outlining the types of abuse, the traits of abusers, and the emotional toll survivors face—paired with real, empowering encouragement to walk away and start again.
Intention-setting & goal pages to help you define what safe, loving, and non-abusive relationships look like to you.
Daily guided journal prompts including:
• Did you experience any form of abuse today?
• Did you practice self-love or self-care?
• What steps are you taking to protect yourself?
• What changes are you making for your future?
Uplifting quotes on every page from powerful voices like Maya Angelou, Eleanor Roosevelt, Brené Brown, and Nelson Mandela.
Hard truths & healing facts from trusted sources like the National Domestic Violence Hotline, RAINN, WHO, and Psychology Today—to validate your experience and educate as you heal.
Special section on secondary abuse and hidden trauma, including five dedicated pages to explore judgment, silence, abandonment, shame, guilt, and grief that can arise after the abuse ends.
Reflection pages at the beginning and end to track your transformation, your pain, your strength—and your rise.
This journal is for:

Survivors of physical, emotional, financial, or spiritual abuse
People healing from controlling, manipulative, or toxic relationships
Anyone who has felt silenced, blamed, or abandoned after telling their truth
Therapists, advocates, and counselors supporting survivors
You—if you’ve ever doubted your worth or stayed silent to survive
You are not broken. You are not to blame. You are reclaiming your voice—and it starts here.