Almost everything is multisided – including the occurrences that give us pain. So, we asked some of the most enlightened folks in the community to share how they have harnessed their pain to help rather than hurt them.
Aaliyah Nicole
I think I truly stopped hiding my pain and started using it as power when I realized that silence was eating me alive, but expression was setting me free. For so long, I carried my trauma quietly—burying the abuse, the family struggles, the trust issues—thinking that hiding it was the only way to survive. But when I started pouring those emotions into music, something shifted. Read more >>>
Asa P. Sealy
I stopped hiding my pain and started using it as power after my divorce. It was one of the hardest seasons of my life, but also the one that forced me to strip away the image I had built and confront what I was truly feeling. Read more >>>
