She had a gap in her resume.
Not the kind HR notices, but the kind no one talks about.
Years missing. Titles she couldn’t claim. Skills learned in silence.
She wasn’t in school. She wasn’t building a career.
She was surviving.
She lied to stay safe. She kept secrets to protect her children.
She learned how to read a room in seconds, how to de-escalate rage, how to disappear when needed.
And when it finally ended — when the coffin was lowered into the ground and home was now safe — the shame remained.
For a long time, she thought survival meant she was broken.
She couldn’t explain the years she missed, the jobs she never took, or the dreams she abandoned.
How do you put “escaped violence” in the experience section?
So she told herself what so many survivors do: “Who would want to know my story?”
But the truth had been with her all along.
The lying? It was creativity under pressure.
The hyper-awareness? Emotional intelligence.
The silence? Strategic restraint.
The years she spent managing chaos, protecting others, rebuilding in secret?
That was leadership.
That woman — me — I stopped hiding when I started working on ideas like The Survivor’s Resume.
What began as a personal healing exercise became a calling.
I started to see myself differently. I started to speak it out loud.
Not just what I endured but also what I learned. What I carried. What I became.
Today, I help other survivors do the same.
Together, we take the so-called shame from our painful pasts and flip it into strength.
Because this isn’t just a resume.
It’s a reclamation.
It’s a declaration.
It’s a battlecry!
This is MY story. What’s yours?
Let’s do the work together!
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