The New Years I was Raped

I haven’t been a big fan of New Year’s for most of my life because the holiday was always a terrifying reminder of being raped as a kid by an adult relative. Oddly the thing I was most terrified of before has become part of what I am most proud of now simply because I started to react differently to it. I am proud of how I am changing all the challenges in my life into opportunities for me to feel my greatness. I changed how I thought about…