這是一個你不常聽到的事實：
受過創傷的女性
有可能成為世界上最有力量的人。
無知的人會稱這種女人為“damaged 破損”。
但她是最強大的女性類型。
倖存者所擁有最危險的優勢：韌性。
你永遠無法再次嘗試將她打敗。
這是從死裡復活的女人，
在經歷了地獄之後又回來了。
這個女人一次又一次地在火焰中燒傷了她的雙腳，
總是活著回來講述另一個屬於她的故事。
因為她所經歷的創傷，
以至於沒有人比她更有力量。
在她的一生中不斷被告知：
她不能做什麼、不能成為什麼樣的人。
在她引導和治癒她自己的傷口時，
她成為了不可思議的能量源泉，
充滿了豐富和變化令人難以置信的潛力。
她有力量將自己的傷口用於更大更高的利益。
用丟她的每一塊石頭，
為她的帝國奠定了基礎。
一磚一瓦地建造，
儘管每一次都還是有人試圖拆除她的牆壁，
她始終能夠一次又一次地拯救自己。
這種倖存者仍面臨周圍人的仇恨、嫉妒和貪婪。
試圖告訴她：妳的傷勢太嚴重，無法翱翔。
也許她多年來一直保持沉默。
對她的靈魂來說，這似乎是幾個世紀以來的事。
這是一道古老的傷口，
彷彿一代又一代地伴隨著她。
然而，
她的靈魂為了生存而反擊的時候到了。
是時候讓她站起來了。
她沉默了那麼久，
以至於當她終於開口時，
世界爆發了，裂開了。
她被壓抑的巨大能量，
在生命的壓力鍋中出生和成長。
曾經絕望是她的默認設置，
現在的豐富成為她與生俱來的權利。
曾經她膽怯的地方，
現在她揮舞的每個動作和每句話，
都會像一把劍一樣釋放出雷霆，
而且，她總是會帶來一場風暴。
當你聽到一個強大的倖存者的聲音和一個戰士的意志，
無法讓這樣的倖存者跪下；
她已經知道她的傷疤帶來的價值。
她知道如何用金子填補她傷口之間的裂縫。
她知道如何將對她施以的每一個刻薄的字眼，
轉化為鐵一般的意志，
讓她和其他關在籠子裡的鳥兒都能自由自在。
你永遠無法打敗一個“受傷”的女人，
因為她已經完全地知道如何自救。
Author : Shahida Arabi
Here is a truth you often don’t hear: traumatized women have the potential to become the most powerful people in this world.
The most ignorant members of society call this type of woman “damaged.” But she is the most powerful type of woman there is.
What they forget is that survivors have the most dangerous advantage of all: resilience.
When you try and you try but you can never bring a woman down, you’ll know there is no going back. Don’t fool yourself. You could never defeat her. You never will.
This is the woman who will always rise from the dead; Lady Lazarus, after going through hell and back.
This is the woman who has burned her feet in the flames time and time again and always lives to tell another tale – even if she has to crawl back to life.
She was never given love or approval on a silver platter, so in order to survive, she had to love herself in a way others could only dream of. She fought tooth and nail for her own self-acceptance.
No one cuddled her as a child or told her pretty things; she had to fend for herself each step of the way. She knows she can survive because she already has and will again.
When someone tells her, “You can’t do it,” she says, “Watch me.”
She is fiery light birthed out of wintery darkness. Brought into the underworld by Hades, Persephone brings forth spring and rebirth when she reemerges finally from the cold.
She owns her shadows and seamlessly weaves them into the fabric of her freedom, creativity, imagination and independence.
All of her life, she was given every evidence of human cruelty and the evil people were capable of. She understood early on that the monsters people dreamed of existed in human skin.
She lived all of her nightmares in high definition. She was given every reason to give up, handed every justification to never believe in herself or anyone.
But there is raw magic in the ways in which she cultivates a faith in herself, to manifest the dreams her soul was meant to bring forth.
Despite it all, she still conquers.
She still survives and thrives.
The “damaged” woman is capable of immense manifestation not just in spite of, but because of the traumas she has gone through.
There is no one more motivated than a woman who has constantly been told what she cannot do or who she cannot be throughout her lifetime.
There is no one more determined to succeed than someone who has nothing left to lose.
The “damaged” woman doesn’t sign up for the hardships of her journey – but she plays the hell out of the cards she’s been dealt.
The “damaged” woman is not damaged at all – she is wounded, and in channeling and healing her wounds, she becomes the source of incredible energy, the site of unbelievable potential for abundance and change.
She possesses the power to use her wounds for the greater good and her highest good.
She builds her own success and becomes her own rugged hero; tends to her own scraped knees.
She uses every stone thrown at her to build the foundation for her empire.
Brick by brick she builds – and despite every attempt to tear her walls down, she rescues herself again and again.
Despite it all, this type of survivor may still face hatred, envy, greed from those around her. They try to tell her she is too damaged to soar.
See, when the women society call too “damaged” perform better than those who never were, it tends to upset the status quo.
As a result, she becomes the survivor of countless witch hunts, the target of many persecutors. Yet when they try to burn her at the stake, she does what comes naturally: she resurrects herself.
After all, nobody suspects that it is the wounded woman who has more power inside of her than the bullies who appear to overpower her.
They laugh and ridicule the mute warrior, the one who seems to never fight back.
But here’s the thing about this type of woman: she observes.
She learns how to pick and fight her own battles. Her spirit may be broken, but it is relentless. She perseveres, bit by bit. She takes it all in.
Perhaps she stays voiceless for years. For her soul, it may seem like for centuries. This is an ancient wound, one that seems to follow her from generation to generation.
Yet at some point, it comes time for her soul to fight back in order to survive. It comes time for her to rise.
She stays silent for so long that when she finally speaks, the world erupts and cracks wide open.
Her pent-up magnificent energy, born and bred in the pressure cooker that she calls life – is that of lightning.
Where once hopelessness was her default, now abundance becomes her birthright.
Where once she was timid, she now unleashes thunder in every action and word that she wields like a sword – and with it, she always brings a storm.
Now when she creates, she creates new worlds and transforms and manifests on a level that cannot be recreated by someone who never had to struggle to survive.
When you hear the voice of a powerful survivor and the will of a warrior – there is nothing you can do but to stop and listen.
She is the voice of a million lifetimes lived.
She is the voice of the hopeless and the powerless when the fire is brought back to their eyes. She is the harbinger of the justice that the voiceless have longed to hear and feel and touch.
Regardless of how much you try and how it may seem, you can never truly bring a survivor like this to her knees; she already knows the value her scars bring.
She knows how to fill the cracks between her wounds with gold.
She knows how to transform each bitter word cast upon her into an iron-clad will that will set her and other caged birds free.
You can’t ever defeat a “damaged” woman, because she knows exactly how to save herself.