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I am here for people who don't perform perfectly as they recovered from their trauma and abuse.

I am here for people who weren't believed.

I am here for people who went back, who reached out, who were unsure about what was happening to them until they were.

I am here for people who behaved chaotically and uncharacteristically in reaction to their trauma.

I am here for people who screamed, yelled, or hit back.

I am here for people who froze, stayed silent, or couldn't fight back.

I am here for people who couldn't get their stories straight, because their own memories of what happened were so fractured by the trauma.

I am here for people who's boundaries became rigid and impermeable as they tried to create a new sense of safety in their life.

I am here for people who lost all boundaries, who felt unsafe setting any boundaries in the wake of having them violated.

Whatever happened that makes you feel like you were a "bad" survivor, I am here for you.

In a study published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, scientists from the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics at Karolinska Institutet, have discovered that water molecules play a crucial role in helping proteins, specifically transcription factors, read and regulate the human genome. Only approximately 1% of our genome consists of genes, sections of DNA that specify the structure and function of proteins. Protein-coding genes are highly similar among mammals, with most differences between humans and other animals arising from how gene activity is regulated. Proteins called transcription factors regulate gene activity so that only a necessary set of genes is switched on at a particular place and time. Each transcription factor recognizes and binds to a unique short DNA sequence, most often located in the 99% of the genome that does not encode proteins. Binding of transcription factors either increases or decreases the expression of nearby genes.