The Little Girl Who Sat In The Shadows.

You'd think I'd forget, but my mind still remembers.

I remember that little girl who liked dancing, singing, and playing with dolls, makeup, jewelry, and clothes. She loved brushing her hair and spraying perfume everywhere.

She always smiled and laughed, but there was fear in her heart and soul; there was sadness because she was bullied constantly.

That little girl was kind, caring, and friendly, even to her bullies. She always tried hard at school in her lessons, and she loved trying to make friends and helping people, but behind those sunny smiles were tears and pain.

Tears and pain that nobody saw but her.

Despite this, she tried to get up every day, brush her hair, and go to school. She loved every lesson apart from maths because she had dyscalculia and everybody picked on her for it, even the teachers couldn't understand why she couldn't do maths, but still she tried hard.

That little girl dreaded hometime. She knew the bullying was going to be worse on the way home from school. She took many blows and was called many names, but she didn't talk about it much because,

Talking made the bullying worse.

When that beautiful yet vulnerable little girl became a teenager, her behavior became erratic and everybody thought she was bad.

She was not bad. She was suffering psychological damage because of the abuse and bullying that she was faced with. She was scared and hurt and she had no self-esteem.

Adulthood soon came around for that little girl, but it was not without difficulties. She was still faced with bullying, even in her relationships which turned into domestic violence.

When adulthood came around, that little girl who was now grown up had difficulties seeing herself as an adult for a long time. She was constantly being hurt in her early adulthood, and she lost a lot due to the traumatic consequences of abuse.

She also lost her children due to having been made severely unwell because of the abuse she went through.

This beautiful young woman did not deserve that. She deserved to be respected and treated with love, dignity, and pride. She was only human after all, and humans can only take so much pain before they break.

After many long years of pain and trauma. This beautiful young woman gained the courage to take help. She learned self-respect, accountability, responsibility, self-care, assertion, and how to build a life worth living.

She spent many long hours in therapy, talking about difficult situations and healing from everything she had been through. She was given practical tasks to do at home, such as practicing emotional regulation and self-care.

• She regained her love of reading and writing and even learned basic maths.
• She found the strength to turn her love of reading and writing into a career for life.
• She learned to take more care of herself.
• She learned to be more assertive.
• She learned to respect herself as a woman.
• She took up new hobbies such as cooking and baking.
• She learned to be free from abuse and live a life she loved.

This little girl who sat in the shadows for so long now recognizes herself as a fully grown, mature, lovable woman.

This fully grown, mature, lovable woman still remembers the little girl she used to be with love and sympathy for everything she has been through and overcome.

This fully grown, mature, lovable woman has learned the value of self-worth. She has learned to be beautiful, valued, worthy, and loved.

This beautiful woman now loves her life in more ways than she has ever done before.