To the one who just searched “childhood trauma” or “how to recover from childhood sexual abuse”—
I’m Althea. My hurt didn’t start in a place that looked broken. It started in a home that looked “good” from the outside. The kind of family people trusted automatically. On the outside, I behaved, performed, and smiled. Inside, I was scared, confused, and carrying something no one wanted to see.
Maybe that’s you, too.
Maybe the person who hurt you was respected. Maybe your home, church, or family looked solid. Maybe that’s part of why you still doubt your own story.
This space, ProsperWithAlthea, isn’t here to rush you into healing or tell you to “just move on.” It’s here to put words to the kind of pain that hides in “good homes” and quiet children who learned to cope instead of be protected.
You’re not imagining it. You’re not overreacting. You’re not the problem.
What happened to you matters.
How you survived makes sense.
And you’re allowed to start telling the truth about it, one small piece at a time.