“The first time I heard ‘Butterfly Fly Away,’ I didn’t just hear a song about growing up. I heard the story of my mother surviving domestic violence and teaching me that even after trauma, we could still dream.”

Sometimes the songs we hold onto as children are the ones that quietly teach us to believe in something better.

“Sometimes the songs that help us survive as children are the ones that show us the world we deserve.”

Trauma may live in the past, but the body remembers. Survivors deserve belief, not “just get over it.”