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My personal experiences of being raised within a family ​structure of Domestic Violence, leaving as a young ​adult, and quickly falling back into the same patterns ​with an abusive partner in my early twenties, have ​been my greatest teachings in how I’ve learned how to ​heal.


Dissociating, hiding, and being as quiet as I can used to ​be my coping comfort creatures. To survive, I lived to ​always please others so they wouldn’t explode on me. ​I hardly knew who I was because I was so busy shoving ​her down inside of me to protect her.


At the age of 24, as a young mother of two children ​under 2, I began to actively flee Domestic Violence. ​Through this journey, I learned how to start sharing my ​voice more authentically and vulnerably, to ​"desahogar"/liberate my self-expression as I shared ​my story with others. Slowly the layers of shame and ​fault I felt for being verbally and physically abused by ​those who should have been protecting, loving, and ​sheltering me, began to peel away.


Since that first moment of choosing to walk away from ​abuse, I have spiraled into and out of the homes of my ​abusers for several years, hoping each time would be ​different, and having to flee again with my heart ​shattered. The process of severing oneself from ​intimate partner and familial Domestic Violence is not ​an easy one.


This is my personal blog and journey of the stories, ​tools, lessons, and healing modalities that have ​helped me overcome the challenges of being exposed ​to extreme domestic abuse, and how I have grown into ​a woman and mother who is not completely numbed ​out and traumatized by all of it.


The most important discernment was in learning how ​to escape the abuse, but to not escape my body. ​Returning to the truth and safety within my own body ​has been my greatest compass along this path.


"Domestic Violence" is abbreviated as "DV," and I've ​named this blog as a transmutation and ​transformation of that abbreviation: Divine Victory. In ​the climate of today's world, it's a divine victory for a ​woman to bravely embrace and lovingly tend to her ​body, rather than abandon it, no matter what ​hardships it has been put through.


Whether or not DV has been a part of your own story, I ​hope the stories, lessons, and embodiment tools I ​share in this blog will be enlightening for every woman ​who has ever felt stranded from her body.


With courageous compassion,

DeeDee <3