Jana Kramer.Photo: Gary Gershoff/Getty Images
Jana Krameris choosing to ignore the negative voices.
On Instagram Monday, the “Beautiful Lies” singer, 37,shared a powerful messageabout leaving abusive relationships and moving forward in healthy ways. She shared a pair of photos with the post, rewriting a mantra to read: “I’mnotbroken. IAMenough.”
“All the words, and abuse equaled, I’m not enough. And I’m not worthy of love,” said Kramer.
“For years I’ve repeated patterns, fallen into the trap of believing those voices, hurting myself and hurting others because of my desire to be chosen, to be enough,” the country singer continued. “And I’ve fallen for the same abuse in a relationship because it’s what I thought I deserved.”
Kramer concluded that everyone’s “healing” is to “stop those negative voices.” She wrote: “Now is the time to grow, learn, HEAL, and love ourselves. We are enough. You are enough. I am enough. ‘I’m done with voices in my head.’ "
“Let’s choose to believe the positive voices,” she added.
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Kramerfinalized her divorcefromMike Caussinin July. The exes share two kids, sonJace Joseph, 2½, and 5½-year-old daughterJolie Rae.
Though Kramer did not specify which of her past partners she was referencing, she previously opened up to PEOPLE back in 2017 about her first husband, Michael Gambino, whoregularly beat and choked herduring most of their marriage. She explained what led her to do something that is not uncommon among abused women — stay in the toxic relationship.
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“I literally walked around on eggshells, terrified to tell anybody, because I was so ashamed of the situation I had put myself in. I was like I put myself in this and now I have to figure out how to get out of it, or stay in it and make it better,” she added.
“All I’ve ever wanted is to be loved, to love someone and to have a family,” said Kramer at the time. “I don’t have everything figured out obviously, but I feel like I’m in a place where I don’t have to be ashamed. I don’t want to play the victim. Even though my past isn’t pretty, it’s shaped me into the person I am today, and now I want to help people. I want to help women out of bad situations.”
If you are experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or go to thehotline.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential. The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.
source: people.com
