About — Underneath Her Story
About Underneath Her Story

What we believe, where we're going, and how the work actually happens.

Our Mission
Underneath Her Story exists to give women who survived sexual abuse permission to stop carrying it in silence. Through awareness, education, and healing, we help women separate what happened to them from who they believe they are, and we help the people around them respond with belief instead of silence.
Our Vision
A world where no woman carries the weight of her abuse alone. Where speaking up is met with belief, and healing isn't measured by how long ago it happened. Where every survivor has a place to become who she was always meant to be — underneath everything she learned to survive.
What We Do
Healing is only part of it. Women also need permission to call it what it was.
Awareness

Sexual abuse is far more common than most people realize, and it is happening around us: in our churches, our workplaces, our families, our neighborhoods. Most communities don't see it because women have learned not to say it. We work to make it visible, so that silence stops being the default and survivors are no longer invisible.

Education

"It was only once." "I was just a little girl." "It didn't affect me." Many women have never been taught that what happened to them was abuse, or that it could still be shaping their beliefs, relationships, and choices today. We help women name it and understand its impact, and we help the families, churches, and communities around them know how to respond when someone finally tells.

Voice

Many women told and weren't believed, or never told at all. We create places where a woman can say what happened and be met with belief, on her own terms and at her own pace.

Healing

Guided group coaching, retreats, community, and one-on-one coaching help a woman separate what happened to her from who she believes she is.

How The Work Happens
A guided group coaching cohort. Retreats. Community support. One-on-one coaching.
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Partner With Us
This work only happens because someone makes it possible.

Your partnership helps a woman go underneath the story she's told herself for years — and find what's still there.

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Underneath Her Story

The abuse is in her past. The impact doesn't have to be in her future.