ESSIE BERRY SURVIVED

These songs reflect my life, my story, my journey, and the road I have traveled toward healing. ❤️‍🩹🎶

For so long, I carried pain, trauma, disappointment, and experiences that were difficult to put into words. There were moments when I didn't know how I was going to keep moving forward. But somewhere along the way, I discovered that my voice could become a place of healing.

I have now learned how to sing my trauma away.

Every lyric represents a piece of my journey. Every melody carries an emotion. Every song allows me to release something that I once had to carry in silence. What was once pain has become expression. What was once a wound has become part of my testimony.

These songs aren't simply music to me. They are pieces of my life. They are my truth, my emotions, my healing, my growth, and my reminder that surviving something does not mean you have to remain trapped in it.

I want to give special thanks to Lyrical Sermonz for helping create a space where my story can be expressed through music, and a very special THANK YOU to Mr. Diamond Redd. 🙏🏽❤️

Thank you for believing in me, believing in my voice, believing in my story, and seeing something in me when I was still learning to see it in myself.

Your belief has meant more to me than words can express.

This is more than a collection of songs. This is my journey. This is my healing. This is me finding my voice again.

And I hope that when someone listens, they don't just hear a song — they hear a person who refused to give up.

I survived. I found my voice. I turned my pain into music. And now, I am singing my way toward healing. 🎶❤️‍🩹

Thank you to everyone who has listened, supported me, encouraged me, and believed in my journey.

My story is still being written. And this time, I get to write it — and sing it — in my own voice.

These songs reflect my life, my story, my journey, and the road I have traveled toward healing. ❤️‍🩹🎶

For so long, I carried pain, trauma, disappointment, and experiences that were difficult to put into words. There were moments when I didn't know how I was going to keep moving forward. But somewhere along the way, I discovered that my voice could become a place of healing.

I have now learned how to sing my trauma away.

Every lyric represents a piece of my journey. Every melody carries an emotion. Every song allows me to release something that I once had to carry in silence. What was once pain has become expression. What was once a wound has become part of my testimony.

These songs aren't simply music to me. They are pieces of my life. They are my truth, my emotions, my healing, my growth, and my reminder that surviving something does not mean you have to remain trapped in it.

I want to give special thanks to Lyrical Sermonz for helping create a space where my story can be expressed through music, and a very special THANK YOU to Mr. Diamond Redd. 🙏🏽❤️

Thank you for believing in me, believing in my voice, believing in my story, and seeing something in me when I was still learning to see it in myself.

Your belief has meant more to me than words can express.

This is more than a collection of songs. This is my journey. This is my healing. This is me finding my voice again.

And I hope that when someone listens, they don't just hear a song — they hear a person who refused to give up.

I survived. I found my voice. I turned my pain into music. And now, I am singing my way toward healing. 🎶❤️‍🩹

Thank you to everyone who has listened, supported me, encouraged me, and believed in my journey.

My story is still being written. And this time, I get to write it — and sing it — in my own voice.

STAYING FOCUS

CONTENT WARNING: Some episodes may contain explicit, disturbing, or emotionally difficult conversations because of the nature of the experiences being discussed.

I am sharing these conversations because I believe people should have the opportunity to hear my account and understand what I say I have experienced over the past decade, including allegations of bullying, threats, blackmail, intimidation, and attempts to pressure me into silence involving people I associate with or identify as connected to the Steve Harvey camp.

Some material may be difficult to hear. The purpose of presenting it is to document my experience and allow listeners to consider the information and evidence for themselves.

CONTENT WARNING: Some episodes may contain explicit, disturbing, or emotionally difficult conversations because of the nature of the experiences being discussed.

I am sharing these conversations because I believe people should have the opportunity to hear my account and understand what I say I have experienced over the past decade, including allegations of bullying, threats, blackmail, intimidation, and attempts to pressure me into silence involving people I associate with or identify as connected to the Steve Harvey camp.

Some material may be difficult to hear. The purpose of presenting it is to document my experience and allow listeners to consider the information and evidence for themselves.

CONTENT WARNING: Some episodes may contain explicit, disturbing, or emotionally difficult conversations because of the nature of the experiences being discussed.

I am sharing these conversations because I believe people should have the opportunity to hear my account and understand what I say I have experienced over the past decade, including allegations of bullying, threats, blackmail, intimidation, and attempts to pressure me into silence involving people I associate with or identify as connected to the Steve Harvey camp.

Some material may be difficult to hear. The purpose of presenting it is to document my experience and allow listeners to consider the information and evidence for themselves.

Bullying generally means repeated or severe behavior that is intended to hurt, intimidate, threaten, humiliate, or control another person, often involving a real or perceived power imbalance.

It can include:

• Verbal: insults, threats, degrading comments, or repeated name-calling.
• Social: deliberately excluding, humiliating, or spreading rumours about someone.
• Physical: hitting, pushing, damaging property, or threatening physical harm.
• Online (cyberbullying): repeated harassment, threats, humiliation, or targeting through texts, social media, or other electronic communications. CONTENT WARNING: Some episodes may contain explicit, disturbing, or emotionally difficult conversations because of the nature of the experiences being discussed.I am sharing these conversations because I believe people should have the opportunity to hear my account and understand what I say I have experienced over the past decade, including allegations of bullying, threats, blackmail, intimidation, and attempts to pressure me into silence involving people I associate with or identify as connected to the Steve Harvey camp.Some material may be difficult to hear. The purpose of presenting it is to document my experience and allow listeners to consider the information and evidence for themselves.

CONTENT WARNING: Some episodes may contain explicit, disturbing, or emotionally difficult conversations because of the nature of the experiences being discussed.

I am sharing these conversations because I believe people should have the opportunity to hear my account and understand what I say I have experienced over the past decade, including allegations of bullying, threats, blackmail, intimidation, and attempts to pressure me into silence involving people I associate with or identify as connected to the Steve Harvey camp.

Some material may be difficult to hear. The purpose of presenting it is to document my experience and allow listeners to consider the information and evidence for themselves.

In California, “harassment” generally means a pattern of conduct directed at a specific person that is knowing and wilful, seriously alarms, annoys, torments, or terrorizes that person, and serves no legitimate purpose. California Penal Code § 646.9 specifically uses this definition in the context of stalking. California Courts+1

California Penal Code § 646.9 — Stalking

Under § 646.9, harassment can be part of stalking when the person also makes a credible threat intended to cause reasonable fear for the victim's safety or the safety of their immediate family. A “course of conduct” generally means two or more acts showing continuity of purpose. Justis Law+1

Other California laws can apply

• Penal Code § 653m: repeated telephone calls or electronic communications made with intent to annoy or harass can constitute a misdemeanour under specified circumstances. California Attorney General
• Penal Code § 422: certain serious threats to kill or cause great bodily injury can constitute a criminal threat when the statutory requirements are met. Justia Law
• Penal Code § 653.2: certain online publication or distribution of someone's personal identifying information with intent to cause fear or unwanted contact can constitute .CONTENT WARNING: Some episodes may contain explicit, disturbing, or emotionally difficult conversations because of the nature of the experiences being discussed.I am sharing these conversations because I believe people should have the opportunity to hear my account and understand what I say I have experienced over the past decade, including allegations of bullying, threats, blackmail, intimidation, and attempts to pressure me into silence involving people I associate with or identify as connected to the Steve Harvey camp.Some material may be difficult to hear. The purpose of presenting it is to document my experience and allow listeners to consider the information and evidence for themselves.

God has helped me stand firm in who I am. Now, the truth will be told. I will not stand down. I will continue to stand in my truth, my faith, and who I am.