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Jennifer is a certified trauma recovery coach at www.jenniferconacchio.com, guiding women from survival to self-discovery through personalized healing approaches when therapy alone is not enough. Jennifer's approach combines DBT-based skills, inner child healing, and fashion therapy to help clients create actionable roadmaps to reconnect with themselves. Grab Your FREE Inner Child Quiz & Healing Guide to find out which inner child is guiding you.

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The Whisper That Saved My Life When I Was Drowning

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TRIGGER WARNING: This post references rape and suicide attempts, which might be distressing for some readers.

“Our lives only improve when we are willing to take chances, and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” ~Walter Anderson

This was my third psychiatric hospitalization after my suicide attempts.

On this visit, something shifted. All I knew at that moment was, for the first time, I wasn’t in a hurry to leave.

There was no window or clock. Just blank, pale walls I’d been staring at for twenty-one days.

I lay there, shattered and …