Rose Ferreira

Science Content Creator, Public Speaker, Education Advocate

Science Content Creator, Public Speaker, and Education Advocate in New York

Bent, but not broken

It’s 2008 and there I was, standing on a subway platform, in downtown Manhattan waiting for my train, not to board it… but to jump in front of it. Fresh out of family court, feeling tired and very much defeated after going in convinced that my days of physical, mental, financial, and sexual abuse were over. Standing there waiting to end my misery, I thought of a little boy who would grow up without his mom, then I thought maybe, just maybe, there’s more to life than this. After a few trains came by, I snapped out of it, turned around and walked away, but that was only the beginning...