Creating Safe Spaces – Where Women Can Breathe, Land, and Heal

In the middle of chaos or silence, one thing can change everything: a safe space.

This is what I’m most passionate about – creating environments where women can rest, recover, and reconnect with themselves. Especially women who carry heavy experiences. Women who have survived violence, control, or erasure. Women who are so much more than their pain.

Through Stella, the Red Cross’s volunteer-based mentoring program that I work with in addition to my work with Pauserooms, I get to be part of something deeply meaningful. Stella supports women who have lived with domestic violence by pairing them with a mentor – a fellow woman who walks beside them for a full year. Someone who listens. Who stays. Who holds space.

It’s a low-threshold, no-pressure environment. You don’t have to perform or explain. You just have to be. Sometimes, that’s where healing begins.

In these quiet, honest rooms, women begin to breathe again. They begin to feel their own strength – not in spite of what they’ve been through, but with it. It’s a kind of reclamation. Of life. Of dignity. Of voice.

I’m proud to be part of this work. And honestly, I’m humbled by it too. Every conversation, every moment of presence, reminds me that healing isn’t a straight line. It’s a relationship. And we heal best together.

If you’re curious about Stella, or want to help create more safe spaces like this, feel free to reach out. There is still so much work to do – and we need each other to do it.

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