Can taking the step into a healing environment provide you with the freedom you long for?
Change can be scary, and for some, almost paralyzing. What about change do we fear? Do we believe that if we change, we won’t recognize ourselves? Or that others won’t recognize us? Do we simply fear the unknown? How will I move forward if everything is different?
Have you tried to leave before? Have you tried to stop using before? Do you feel like you always end up in the same situation? Are you afraid of failing or disappointing yourself and your loved ones? Do you think you cannot heal from the trauma of your past or current situation? Do you believe you aren’t worthy or see very little value in your own existence?
What if you could somehow see and have a vision for what your life may look in the future? Would it help you to make a choice for freedom? At Safe Places for Women, we want you to get excited and have high expectations for change. Safe Places for Women offers housing and life changing resources for women who are escaping sex trafficking, or sexual exploitation.
When you make a choice to pursue your freedom and begin the healing path, you can expect love, empathy, and support from us along the way. You can expect help with almost every facet of your healing and freedom journey. You can expect to receive help through a Case Manager who can assist you in coordinating the services you need. You can expect to receive help through a therapist who can assist you in setting goals for yourself related to your mental health and/or substance use. You can expect to receive daily support from caring individuals who have your best interest in mind. You can also expect to have a safe, home environment with clothes, food, and community for you to grow and develop. You can expect to have some of your medical needs met and addressed. You can expect to have a structured environment to allow you to be safe enough to be vulnerable. You can expect to be treated with dignity, respect, and as a person who can make choices for their own life.
Freedom from the things that hold you down awaits. Your story does not have to end the way it started, or the way it has been. Trauma does not have to define you. Substance use and/or mental health challenges do not have to define you. The person you have been told you are by ill intentioned people does not define you. The choices you make right now can begin to define you. Choose freedom. Choose to love yourself. Choose to step into something new. Choose your path.
Choose to let your expectations of change begin to define you. Choose to enter Safe Places for Women where you can be seen, heard, valued, and loved: A place where you can expect to experience life change; A place where you can expect to encounter the loving presence of the most high God; A place where you can just be. Freedom is on the other side of one decision.
