A BLOG POST BY LARA FRAZIER https://www.instagram.com/sillylara/
“We tell our stories and you call us liars. We stay silent and you say we should have spoken up.” - unknown
It’s national domestic violence awareness month and ironically, I woke up to a dream where I got back together with an ex who abused me.
I didn’t even know it was this month until I got on social media this morning. I’ve also been writing about this so it makes sense that it was on my mind, in my subconscious.
I thought of these words, in the image, on my run today, when I was remembering some of the people who abused me, in various forms - be it in a work setting, personal relationship, or via other relationships.
More so, I thought of the men and women who wanted to protect my abusers - who told me to stay quiet, to shut up, to not be so vocal - to not go public, to not report.
I think of the people who told me my reality was a lie and that it wasn’t true.
I wish I would have had the strength to just say these words to them - to not have kept them in my life for so long, no matter how much I loved them.
Any person who wants to gaslight my reality is not a person I want in my life.
I wish the same for you."
Written by Lara Frazier https://larafrazier.com/about
Lara Frazier is a freelance writer, a truth-teller, and an innovator. She is a FIERCE believer in the power of owning our stories and is a strong advocate for addiction recovery. Lara shares a story of healing: in sobriety, through addiction, in life and love, and in all the other big, huge moments of fear and magic that we rarely talk about, but we should.
Lara Frazier lives in the Tampa Bay area with her pig, Peaches and her partner, Austin Cooper, The founder of Sober Evolution. She received her MBA in Marketing & Global Business from Pepperdine University. After many years of working in the entertainment industry, Lara became addicted to prescription pills and left her career to seek help and find her truth.
Lara is well known in the digital recovery space as an innovator, speaker, writer, and influencer. Lara's work has been featured in publications such as The Temper, The Huffington Post, Glamour, AddictionUnscripted.Com, and WorkIt Health.
Currently, Lara is the Digital Marketing Director for Renewal Health Group, a family of treatment centers located in Southern California. Lara continues to document her story of healing in the most authentic and vulnerable way she knows how; through her own eyes and with her whole heart.
