Exclusive Interview with Duania Hall: Begin Again. Women, Take Back Your Identity After Trauma

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WOMEN, TAKE BACK YOUR IDENTITY AFTER TRAUMA

W I T H D D U A N I A H A L L

We recently had the opportunity to sit with the amazing Duania Hall where we discussed her role as one who inspires women to begin again after trauma, and maximizing their lives through self- care.

Duania has a background in Social Work, Community Relations and surviving multiple traumas equips her to educate nonprofits and faith-based organizations on ways to better serve survivors in their communities. Duania uses her platform to increase awareness about cross over effects of domestic violence and other channel. Her mission is to help improve the quality of life for survivors around the globe, and motivate women to live a whole blessed life.

Now She Leads Others In Their Overcomer Journey After Trauma

DPM: Share your testimony with us and how God would have brought you through and delivered you from the trauma of domestic violence.

DH: I am a survivor of domestic violence. I have been in multiple relationships that included some type of violence, whether it was physical or non-physical.

This is indeed a transformation of a woman who has overcome, a woman who has seen victory, a woman who has seen death' s door. But through God' s grace, and through her holding on, she is still here today to tell her story. Not only to tell her story, but to bring others out and most importantly, bring other women out.

DPM: Let' s talk a little bit about that stolen identity. What was it that caused your identity to be stolen and what has led you to share this message: " women you can take your identity back”?

DH: I was choked, hit, kidnapped. I was intimidated, threatened, isolated from family and friends, and that has a huge negative impact on someone when another person tries to isolate you from everyone else. That' s how they ' re able to do so many of the other things like degrade you.

I also experienced what we call “ entrapment” . That' s when someone will not allow you to leave and they keep you against your will. Having someone that I' m in a relationship with, take my phone, or unplug the phones in the house, take your car keys, so you cannot leave.

I' ve experienced all the money being taken out of the house. I wasn 't working at the time, they were. They would literally make sure that when they left, there was not a penny left in the house. That is financial abuse.

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