--- title: "Blog" url: https://bernadinetruth.com/blog/ description: "Visit the post for more." published: 2019-04-30 updated: 2017-09-04 --- # Blog Published 2019-04-30 · Updated 2017-09-04 ### [Victim to Survivor: Lessons Learned By Experiencing Sexual Assault](https://bernadinetruth.com/victim-to-survivor-lessons-learned-by-experiencing-sexual-assault) To survivors of sexual abuse, sexual assault, and sexual trauma- -I. Believe. YOU! I believed you the moment the sexual assault took place. The moment you questioned if this could in fact be your [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/victim-to-survivor-lessons-learned-by-experiencing-sexual-assault) 2 ### [No Limits](https://bernadinetruth.com/no-limits) “Just Because The Scar Looks Healed, Doesn’t Mean The Wound Wasn’t Deep.” Imagine living a life empty of fear. As I enter the last year of my 20’s, I enter it with [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/no-limits) 5 ### [Why 2019 Is NOT About “New Year, New Me!”](https://bernadinetruth.com/why-2019-is-not-about-new-year-new-me) Alright everyone, the new year has been among us for a bit of time now and the phrase “new year, new me” have been buzzwords ALL OF JANUARY. Now, I get it-given the start of a new year, you feel [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/why-2019-is-not-about-new-year-new-me) 4 ### [10 Gifts Everyone Deserves to Give Themselves This Holiday Season](https://bernadinetruth.com/10-gifts-everyone-deserves-to-give-themselves-this-holiday-season) The holidays are here! Such a wonderful and joyous time to celebrate with your loved ones and bring them lots of cheer, right!? Absolutely! But what about yourself? What have you given yourself [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/10-gifts-everyone-deserves-to-give-themselves-this-holiday-season) 3 ### [Who Is In Your Kitchen Cabinet This Holiday Season?](https://bernadinetruth.com/who-is-in-your-kitchen-cabinet-this-holiday-season) Do You Have Your Lucky 8? The holiday season is a time where many are reminded of what they are grateful for and/or wish they had more of. While I am most certainly grateful for life, health, and [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/who-is-in-your-kitchen-cabinet-this-holiday-season) 3 ### [10 Beautifully Painful Truths About Adulting](https://bernadinetruth.com/10-beautifully-painful-truths-about-adulting) Adulting Through The Years Recently, I have had quite a few conversations about adulthood and ‘adulting’ that got me thinking about the world around me and some life lessons that I have acquired [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/10-beautifully-painful-truths-about-adulting) 6 ### [12 Truths About The Journey of Entrepreneurship](https://bernadinetruth.com/12-truths-about-the-journey-of-entrepreneurship) The journey of entrepreneurship is one that is full of many highs. It is truly empowering to wake up every day, knowing you are working on a endeavor you are 1000% invested in; one that you [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/12-truths-about-the-journey-of-entrepreneurship) 6 ### [20 Pieces of Professional Advice Millennials Need To Know](https://bernadinetruth.com/20-pieces-of-professional-advice-millennials-need-to-know) So you’re in your 20s and 30s trying to navigate the professional world. Don’t worry, you’re not alone, in fact-you’re one of the millions of millennials in this arena! Welcome to the club and I [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/20-pieces-of-professional-advice-millennials-need-to-know) 6 ### [10 Messages to Daughters Without Fathers Learning to Love](https://bernadinetruth.com/a-message-to-daughters-without-fathers-learning-to-love) “With or without the love of your father, you are and always will be deserving of love yourself.” As a woman who grew up with the absence of her father, even when he was present; [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/a-message-to-daughters-without-fathers-learning-to-love) 7 ### [5 Lessons Learned Regarding Mothers, Daughters, & Mental Health](https://bernadinetruth.com/5-lessons-learned-regarding-mothers-daughters-mental-health) By way of the month in which mothers are celebrated and mental health awareness is acknowledged comes to a close, I can’t help but close out the month of May reflecting on the roles of [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/5-lessons-learned-regarding-mothers-daughters-mental-health) 7 ### [Survivors in Solidarity: A Message to Survivors & Allies of Sexual Assault](https://bernadinetruth.com/survivors-in-solidarity-a-message-to-survivors-allies-of-sexual-assault) The Voice of a Survivor’s Truth Eyes wide open, yet sealed shut with tears flowing down my cheek. No one there to hear my whimpered cries as tears collapse on the pillow-seeping sorrow into [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/survivors-in-solidarity-a-message-to-survivors-allies-of-sexual-assault) 8 ### [Black Women: More Than Hashtags, Fads, And Fetishes](https://bernadinetruth.com/black-women-more-than-hashtags-fads-and-fetishes) To understand the value, power, and strength of black women of today, you have to understand the value, power, and strength of black women of the past. You have to acknowledge and know without a [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/black-women-more-than-hashtags-fads-and-fetishes) 9 ### [11 Truths About Love: Hearts Broken, Hearts Building, & Hearts Bursting](https://bernadinetruth.com/11-truths-about-love-hearts-broken-hearts-building-hearts-bursting) L.O.V.E: the four letter word that causes so much happiness and pain all at the same time. Love, a word that describes feelings that are indescribable because the reality of love is more often [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/11-truths-about-love-hearts-broken-hearts-building-hearts-bursting) 11 ### [A Message of Love to Black Women](https://bernadinetruth.com/a-message-of-love-to-black-women) As a black woman, I wear the intersectionalities of my identity with honor, pride, and confidence. Even when I feel inadequate, it is my identity as a black woman that encourages me to persist! I [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/a-message-of-love-to-black-women) 11 ### [Because He Did, I Can & I Do](https://bernadinetruth.com/because-he-did-i-can-i-do) In recognition of the late Martin Luther King Jr. August 28, 1963, the late Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech. A little shy of 55 years [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/because-he-did-i-can-i-do) 12 ### [4 Easy Steps to Guarantee You Don’t Quit On Your New Year’s Resolutions!](https://bernadinetruth.com/4-easy-steps-to-follow-guarantee-you-dont-quit-on-your-new-years-resolutions) It’s the new year! Happy times are ahead as all of us have been thinking, “New Year! New Me!” And as always, with the excitement of the new year comes the excitement to set new goals for oneself [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/4-easy-steps-to-follow-guarantee-you-dont-quit-on-your-new-years-resolutions) 11 ### [6 Realities I Wish I Knew Regarding The Journey Towards Self-Love](https://bernadinetruth.com/6-realities-i-wish-i-knew) Have you ever been told sentiments like, “you can’t be there for others, if you aren’t there for yourself” and/or “you can’t love others if you don’t love yourself?” Not only have I heard such [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/6-realities-i-wish-i-knew) 12 ### [Expressing Gratitude Through The Pain During The Holidays: A Broken Heart With The Ability To Love](https://bernadinetruth.com/expressing-gratitude-through-the-pain-during-the-holidays) Truth, the holiday season tends to bring out the best in people and has always brought out the best in me. Regardless of the hardships I was facing, I always felt that I was able to put aside my [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/expressing-gratitude-through-the-pain-during-the-holidays) 11 ### [5 Signs It Is Time To Let Go](https://bernadinetruth.com/5-signs-it-is-time-to-let-go) 5 Signs It Is Time to Let Go Ever know in your heart of hearts that it is time to “let go” but the thought of actually doing so is too painful? As a result, you hold on desperately to what should [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/5-signs-it-is-time-to-let-go) 12 ### [10 Steps To Standing In Your Truths](https://bernadinetruth.com/10-steps-to-standing-in-your-truths) Never forget the beauty in unapologetically choosing yourself by standing in your truths in order to achieve greatness. Constantly seeking moments of truth from others, while I wasn’t standing in [...] [Read More](https://bernadinetruth.com/10-steps-to-standing-in-your-truths) 11