Book "Escrito en el cuerpo" by violence survivors

To avoid being labeled, women avoid the fear of contempt, censorship and annihilation every day and, even so, they end up being defined as "unstable", "anxious", "depressive", "dependent", "obsessive". ” or, “unsafe”.

Today we share with you a part of the text written by Salomé, migrant woman and survivor of violence:

"I set fire to the memory that gives me the opportunity to heal here and now. A light that dazzles opens the ritual. I undiscipline my body, letting it fall on the Earth that has always sustained me. I close my eyes, I stop my breathing, to feel that I'm still alive. I trust...

There are times like this when luck crosses my path. I find myself again and then I can trace a spiral line that records the beats of my heart and my cycles. I access an intersubjective intimacy, I realize that I was never alone. All those memories that once became mortal remains have composted my body, turning it into sacred territory. I feel...

I have lived the experience of living in more than one space at the same time, I inhabit a migrant body. I live long years in a distant “kingdom.” The story of uprooting is not foreign to me. I have tasted the flavors of the past that continually make themselves present. That is why and much more that in each healing ritual I summon all the voices in me, I invite them to cross the borders. Each one presents themselves with their memories.

The final spell arrives. I (return) to the body taking care of the wounds.”