Not every form of bondage is visible.
Sometimes it exists in the excuses made for another person. Sometimes it appears in another apology being believed. Sometimes it is the fear of telling someone what is really happening because the questions that follow may feel almost as painful as the truth.
In Chains Being Broken, Dawnesha Coleman writes openly about that silence.
She acknowledges the shame that can surround returning to a harmful relationship after deciding to leave. She also confronts the self-judgment that can follow—the feeling that knowing better should automatically mean doing better.
Her journey reveals something more complicated.
Breaking free can happen through choices that seem small to everyone else: telling a trusted person the truth, refusing to answer a message, keeping important documents somewhere safe, blocking a number, or simply admitting that a dangerous situation cannot continue.
Each decision interrupts the pattern.
Faith also becomes central to Dawnesha’s healing. Surrender does not happen instantly. It comes through tears, prayer, falling, rising again, and trusting God with places in her heart she once believed could never heal.
That transformation gives Chains Being Broken its deeper purpose. Dawnesha does not hide the struggle in order to make survival look perfect.
She shares it so someone else might recognize their own worth.
The chain does not have to disappear overnight for freedom to have already begun.