Madrid Part I - Metiya Chique

Madrid Part I

July 10, 2016

Lifestyle, Travel
Spain

Top: Mango | Skirt: Zara | Heels: Pretty Little Thing | Jacket: Vila x MC

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Your trauma doesn’t define your story, you do!✨

🔅This week we got to see an incredibly brave and courageous woman, one of my healing heroes #CassieVentura go up to testify against her abuser infront of the whole world. Wow 😮

🔆This is one of the hardest things any survivor can do, to stand up against the person that stole so much from you and caused feelings of unworthiness and self blame for many years. But she did it! She showed that it’s possible to confront your fears, to face your trauma and to HEAL from what you thought was impossible.

🔆I tried SO hard to bury my story. I just didn’t think it would help me to remember or to face it. But one day I faced it. I told my story and was set free. 🕊️ That shame never belonged to you in the first place, you deserve to live without it and without fear.

🔆I’m so proud of you for everything you have survived to be here today. You might not feel like it, but you are a CHAMPION!🏆 and I’m gonna keep reminding you of that!

Healing is possible❤️‍🩹 Be kind and patient with yourself. Trauma is not the end of your story & I’m here to support YOU every step of the way sis✨🫂💞 follow & turn on your notifications x

#survivortothriver #overcomers #healingispossible #blackgirlhealing #healingjourneyselflove #blackgirljoy #selflovejourney #healingoutloud #ownyourstory #traumatotriumph #breakingthesilence #healingispower #riseandthrive #healingblackwomen #blackgirlsheal #healinginprogress #saawareness #survivorsunite #healingfromabuse #healingthesoul #overcomingtrauma #abusesurvivors #breakingthecycle

Your trauma doesn’t define your story, you do!✨

🔅This week we got to see an incredibly brave and courageous woman, one of my healing heroes #CassieVentura go up to testify against her abuser infront of the whole world. Wow 😮

🔆This is one of the hardest things any survivor can do, to stand up against the person that stole so much from you and caused feelings of unworthiness and self blame for many years. But she did it! She showed that it’s possible to confront your fears, to face your trauma and to HEAL from what you thought was impossible.

🔆I tried SO hard to bury my story. I just didn’t think it would help me to remember or to face it. But one day I faced it. I told my story and was set free. 🕊️ That shame never belonged to you in the first place, you deserve to live without it and without fear.

🔆I’m so proud of you for everything you have survived to be here today. You might not feel like it, but you are a CHAMPION!🏆 and I’m gonna keep reminding you of that!

Healing is possible❤️‍🩹 Be kind and patient with yourself. Trauma is not the end of your story & I’m here to support YOU every step of the way sis✨🫂💞 follow & turn on your notifications x

#survivortothriver #overcomers #healingispossible #blackgirlhealing #healingjourneyselflove #blackgirljoy #selflovejourney #healingoutloud #ownyourstory #traumatotriumph #breakingthesilence #healingispower #riseandthrive #healingblackwomen #blackgirlsheal #healinginprogress #saawareness #survivorsunite #healingfromabuse #healingthesoul #overcomingtrauma #abusesurvivors #breakingthecycle

🔅The people who wound us get no say in how we c

🔅The people who wound us get no say in how we clean up the blood 🩸

🔅The people who silenced your pain should not expect an invitation to your celebration ✨

🔅The people who didn’t experience your pain, have no say in how long it takes you to heal 🌱

🔅The people who haven’t survived what you have, don’t get to to limit your right to love yourself, be happy or to celebrate your growth! ❤️

You are worth it!

Drop a ❤️❤️ if you’re with me!

#survivortothriver #overcomers #healingispossible #blackgirlhealing #healingjourneyselflove #blackgirljoy💕 #selflovejourney❤️ #healingoutloud #ownyourstory #traumatotriumph #breakingthesilence #healingispower #riseandthrive #celebrateyourwins #healingblackwomen #blackgirlsheal #healinginprogress

You still haven’t met all of the people who are

You still haven’t met all of the people who are going to love you 💕

Reflecting on some of the people & places that have made an impact in my life so far this year including:

- The Houston Rodeo 🤠
- Black History Month in Third Ward, H-town 🇺🇸
- My best friend, my sister, my cousin @thesheekayza 💕
- Houston Berean Seventh Day Adventist church⛪️
- My God-given sister & nieces🇰🇪🇿🇲 🫶🏿

May this year bring you the people & places that love you, the way you love others 🙏🏿

If you’ve already been blessed with those people then tag & show them some love below ❤️⬇️ #happysunday🤗

📸 @gabriellenca.photography

#survivortothriver #overcomers #healingispossible #blackgirlhealing #healingjourneyselflove #blackgirljoy💕 #selflovejourney❤️ #houstonrodeo2025 #thirdwardhouston #seventhdayadventistchurch #houstonsda #downtownhoustontx #houstonbloggers #houstonchurch #houstonbloggerbabes

No matter how perfect everyone’s life appears, t

No matter how perfect everyone’s life appears, they’re dealing with something or have dealt with something challenging in their lives.

Your struggles are NOT a reflection of your value.💎

You are STILL valuable despite of what was done to you, what you are dealing with or what you are healing from right now. 🤍

Don’t let anyone make you feel ashamed for experiencing trauma. It wasn’t your fault that it happened but YOU are here today because YOU made it through 🙌🏿

That sounds like a winner to me, doesn’t it sound like AN OVERCOMER to you? 😃🥳🤸🏿‍♂️ #champion

#survivortothriver #healingjourneys #blackgirlhealing #traumahealingjourney #morethanaconqueror #beautyforashes #christianhealing #blackgirlsheal #womanevolve #healingtogether #selflovevibes #healingaffirmations #learntoloveyourself #loveflowerssomuch #healingvlog

Your struggles are NOT a reflection of your value💎

You are STILL valuable despite of what was done to you, what you are dealing with or what you are healing from right now. 🤍

No matter how perfect everyone’s life appears, they’re dealing with something or have dealt with something challenging in their lives.

Don’t let anyone make you feel ashamed for experiencing trauma. It wasn’t your fault that it happened but YOU are here today because YOU made it through 🙌🏿

That sounds like a winner to me, doesn’t it sound like AN OVERCOMER to you? 😃🥳🤸🏿‍♂️ #champion

#survivortothriver #healingjourneys #blackgirlhealing #traumahealingjourney #morethanaconqueror #beautyforashes #christianhealing #blackgirlsheal #womanevolve #healingtogether #selflovevibes #healingaffirmations #learntoloveyourself #loveflowerssomuch #healingvlog

Do you feel like this healing thing is taking you

Do you feel like this healing thing is taking you longer than it should be? You are not alone 😫 I gave my therapist one week when we just started!

We love a good deadline don’t we, but when it comes to healing there is no linear path. What might take someone one month to cope with, might take someone else a year to just begin to face.

The person who you thought it took one year of therapy to cope with their trauma might still be dealing with loss of trust, anxiety and other things you cannot see.

The only way to get through your healing journey is by focusing on YOUR healing journey. Whatever that looks like. Every time you show up to therapy, you journal your thoughts, you express your feelings instead of ignoring them and you recognise your needs instead of abandoning yourself - you are SHOWING up and taking steps in the right direction. Even when it doesn’t feel like it’s forward direction, you are still moving.

Real talk had my first breakdown in 2014. My Dr recommended talking therapies to me for the first time in my life coz I was in denial about having depression and refused to go on meds.
I had another incident in 2016.
Finally got my first official therapist in 2019.
Got another therapist in 2021.
My first therapist from church in 2024.
Another therapist in 2024 who helped me finally to disclose what happened to me.

And guess what? I’m STILL in therapy!!! (Betterhelp referral link is in my stories!)

Don’t be fooled by the pretty pictures, I almost died many times had it not been for God’s grace 🙏🏿 but I’m here & I’m finally free 🥹

So I can say from experience that
YOU will make it through this,
YOU are capable
YOU are worthy and
YOU are more than a conqueror through Jesus Christ ❤️

Freedom & joy are waiting for you on the other side. I love you & believe in you x

Metiya

#survivortothriver #morethanaconqueror #healingjourney #blackgirlsheal #selflovejourney❤️

33 years, 33 years, can you relate to a life like

33 years, 33 years, can you relate to a life like this?

There is someone who wants to comfort you, to bless you, to pour into you what others have been taking. He wants to break the chains that bind you! To remove the fog that stops you seeing WHO you really are!

To LOVE you even where you cannot love yourself. Let him kiss your wounds. Those dark corners you hide from everyone. He is not scared to go there and sit with you.

You have to earn so much in this world, your titles, shelter, beauty, respect, admiration, followers, friends, spouses. But you don’t have to earn Jesus love ❤️

There is nothing you can do to make him love you less.
There is nothing you can do to make him love you more.

As a SAbuse survivor; shame, guilt, trauma and fear tried to hold me down for almost my entire life. It NEARLY won - it should have won, but praise God that in the midnight hour - he always shows up! When it’s the darkest, is when he shines brightest!

When you are most alone, is when he holds you the closest.

Jesus didn’t just die for you, he spent 33 years on this earth to SET YOU FREE from every demonic principality, power and potency over your life!!!

There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him. He experienced every heartbreak, abuse, loss that you & I go through today so that we could be VICTORIOUS!

Won’t you claim your victory today? Won’t your claim your healing? 🥹❤️‍🩹

Isaiah 53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him.

And by His stripes we are HEALED❤️‍🩹

‭‭#morethanaconqueror #survivortothriver #healingwithjesus #christiansofinstagram #jesussaves #blackgirlhealing #eastermessage #heisrisen✝️ #jesusheals #jesussavesbro #aprilsaawarenessmonth #saawareness #survivorsunite #healingfromabuse #healingispossible #healingjourney #healingthesoul

So I threw a surprise birthday party for my mum in

So I threw a surprise birthday party for my mum in Zambia! 🇿🇲 it was stressful as I was in UK and planning virtually with very little help 😩 but I went ahead because my mum has never had a party or wedding or something to celebrate her before.

My family has also suffered so much loss. I was born in 90s Zambia so HIV/AIDS endemic & malaria wiped out my family. All I remember is funerals and people dying in my childhood so I wanted to change the narrative. The last time we had a party was before my Aunty Gertrude passed away in 2000, she was my mum’s youngest sister and would have been so proud of me for throwing a celebration for her sister coz that’s exactly what she would do 🥹🤍🕊️

There’s nothing like meeting together with family and just celebrating. I didn’t ask my relatives for anything except to show up and I’m so grateful they did because my mum is the first born and has truly mothered everyone in her family at some point 😅 she also raised me single-handedly and adopted my brother (Aunty Gertrude’s son) when my Aunty died so she was raising two of us ALONE in UK, imagine!! We didn’t even have a church community or something to help. I felt so guilty even adding more stress and probably that’s why I didn’t share about my about abuse and assault until 2024. Because mum worked soo hard for us, sacrificed and tried her best to ensure we SURVIVED.

We praise God for being our Father & husband. He has provided, protected and poured healing into us, so that we can now go from survivors to THRIVERS! This is a cause for celebration! That even in the darkest nights, there comes the bright morning sun ☀️ and ultimately, Jesus has died so that we can have sunshine & life FOREVER in heaven with him 🙏🏿

So here is to joy, to more celebrations & to the gift of everlasting life in Christ Jesus! ❤️

Happy birthday mummy!🥳🎂🎉 @suwaview

#morethanaconqueror #survivortothriver #birthdaysurprises #blackgirljoy #africanparty #zambia #zambian #lusaka #lunda #luchazi #blackmums #africandance #blackfamilylove #blackfamilytravel #blackdaughters #firstborndaughter

Friend pls go to therapy 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🙏🏿

#healingjourney #survivortothriver #blackgirlhealing #comedymemesdaily #humour #ifyoudontlaughyoullcry #morethanaconqueror #kellyclarksonshow #kellyclarkson

Doechii is a GENIUS! I love her, her testimony an

Doechii is a GENIUS! I love her, her testimony and creativity! The joy of her song inspired me to record my testimony!😭THANK YOU @doechii ❤️❤️

I just finished a bible study and Anxiety was playing in the background and I was thinking about ALL that God has done:
It’s my TESTIMONY - Jesus has set me FREE!!!😭

Even though I’m a writer, not a singer, I wanted to express my joy and just be HAPPY & FREE!!!🥳

No matter what it looks or sounds like this 2025, trust and believe that WE HAVE THE VICTORY yeaaa 🙌🏿💃🏿☀️

#anxietydoechi #anxietyremix #jesussaves #christiantiktok #doechii #anxietydance #anxietyremix #jesusheals
#christiansofinstagram #dancechallenge #dancechallenges #tiktokdance #trendingaudio #doechiichallenge #anxietyfree #dancechallenges #willsmith #freshprinceofbelair @doechii @willsmith @desyired

The longer YOU keep wanting to be like everyone el

The longer YOU keep wanting to be like everyone else, the longer it will take you to see just how incredible and wonderful YOU are.

Your journey & story are unique and remarkable. No one else has been through what you have and overcome the things you have, to be here today.

You are worth healing for & choosing ✨

Follow to join a community that celebrates & cheers you along YOUR JOURNEY to loving you 🤗🌱

#healingjourney #selfcompassion #healingprocess #selfgrowth #survivortothriver #healingfromtrauma
#morethanaconqueror #selflovetips #blackgirlhealing

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Jeanne July 11, 2016 Reply

Wooow How are you so pretty <3 I adore the outfit, I had a crush on your skirt <3 🙂
xoxo
Jeanne
http://jeannefashnbeauty.blogspot.com
1. Metiyachique July 17, 2016 Reply
  
  Hey Jeanne, thank you so much for your kind words! hahaha yes the skirt was from Zara, it was in the sales recently! thank you for passing by xx

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