How to Reclaim Your Voice After Trauma | Natasha Valdes

[music] [music] He said if you scream there will be consequences. So I survived the only way I knew how in silence. [music] And in that moment, he took away the one thing that made me feel powerful, my voice. [music] At 23, I was sexually assaulted by someone I knew. While this is where my story begins, it's not where [music] it ends. And the voice you're hearing today, it doesn't just belong. It belongs [music] to every survivor who was forced to stay silent, [music] to stay alive. Thank you for sharing th ...