You experienced such hate, violence, and terror in your life no decent human let alone a child should ever have to experience. You've left a burning light of your presence in this world. May you never experience another nightmare again. R.I.P.
Thank you so much for your willingness to share this! It’s a very personal situation and you could have easily chosen not to. Anyone who is so willing to share so much of themselves as you have has earned my respect! Know that this is going to help many others who are struggling with situations too, and that will bring much help and healing!
So proud of you for sharing about your journeys with trauma and PTSD. It can be daunting enough to experience PTSD, acknowledge its existence and your need for help, and do the painful work necessary to learn new ways to cope with a history of trauma, but using your platform to amplify the importance of reaching out really goes above and beyond. Wishing you all the best on the long and winding roads of personal growth and recovery, in all their forms.
just literally "stumbled upon" your background and your story and all your sites and traces in the web - you´re amazingly inspiring! NEVER Give up - live every moment of you life - you so much deserve it!
I’m so excited about reading your book and sharing your encouraging story of perseverance to my girls. You’re such an awesome person love! Keep pushing forward Beautiful lady!
Beautiful and generous sharing! I am so glad that you are seeing a therapist to help you work through the traumatic memories. Talking to someone about these and working through the pain is a must in order to dissolve and let go of the trauma, and you are taking the right step forward. What I admire about you is your generosity and courage in sharing this with your fans so that they will also pay attention to their emotional well-being. Love ya
You are my role model and the light of my days. Thank you so much for sharing your pain with us at the cost of your health and happiness. I wish I had someone like you to talk to on days when I'm scared - but at least I have these videos to watch over and over again. 🙂
Why is it so difficult to live with what has already happened? Seems like we should be able to just move on, but some how your mind keeps bringing things that happened long ago to the forefront. There must be a reason for this. I think that maybe there's something we need to do. Maybe there's something we need to resolve in order to be able to move on and leave it behind. This idea is worth investigating even if we can't relive it and correct all of the wrong. I think that somehow things can be resolved within ourselves at least enough for us to go on living our lives without the major obstacles that the past can place in our way. You are amazing, even without your dancing accomplishments and always have been. And the little girl inside, who thinks she's nothing, is actually number 1. She just had no idea. She is a fighter. So proud of you! Best to you!
So proud of the strides you have taken already. Thank you for addressing mental health issues and the trauma you have gone through. If it was not for Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) I would be reliving the nightmares of violent apartheid and its after effects.
I hope you can relax :) I hope and pray for you and that you can overcome all things that made you upset and anxious. I am praying for you. I used to dance til I was 25 but gave it up as I did not have great feet or extension and pulled a hamstring when young. You are very amazing. If talking about all of what you went through upsets you then don't talk about it. We get it! It would be too much for anyone. Just feel better dear! A nurse in Michigan.
Thank you so much for discussing your PTSD. Due to my own PTSD, I've suffered from a lot of the symptoms you describe. You reach out to so many people- thank you for feeling courageous enough to share it. It's not something you have to do, and you do it anyway. You're wonderful ❤️
Thank you very much Michaela for your authenticity and for sharing about this tabou🙏This is very inspiring for other orphans to discover how you have been and how you are struggling with it. And just to see you as an human, not an hero, but just someone who can testify. This is very precious. And this is a real honor to meet your path in any way. Thank you for being who you are today and sharing your doubts, your pains, as well as your joy and your grace through dance. With love from France ❤ Yoann
Tomorrow I'm leaving Holland for a holiday, and I packed your book in my hand luggage to read. I'm so glad I watched this video before I go, because it really adds to my vision of you as a humanbeing like everybody else. I knew some things about your past and to be honest, I used to wonder a lot on how you've managed to function so "normal" in society. I thought you were doing good, I kinda assumed it, but at the same time I couldn't imagine because of all you went through. I am really thankful for your honesty, this video is kind off the missing piece for me. Michaela, I wish you all of good things. In a way, I'm really proud to be able to say that one of the persons I look up to, reached out and searched for help from a therapist. Your story inspires me, but also your willingness to cope and your willpower to get out of negative cycles inspires me endlessly. Thank you. ♥️
R.I.P. Michaela DePrince! I am so grateful to have found her & can watch her dance. She suffered so much, but she danced ballet so well. R.I.P. to the “Black Swan”. 🖤 I wish I could hug her.
I used to have recurring nightmare from my childhood well into adulthood. I finally talked to my Mom about it, she said, "you remember that?" I said, "no it's a dream, not a memory." She then told me it was not a dream, but that it actually happened. For some time afterwards I could not stop shaking, but, I've never had that dream again. To expel the darkness all you need to do is light a candle. Evil lurks in shadows, so shine your light, and they'll disappear like mist in the sun.
I knew your story from the documentary etc. I can't believe how much you had to go through. But your inner strength, resilience and bravery during your short time here on Earth, really IS inspiring. That core wound of abandonment as a child, and sharing your story of cPTSD just makes you all the more of a role model, which does not mean that you should have to have had those memories and feelings in the first place, or relive them, in dreams or flashbacks. I really really hope that you CAN rest now, with your mom right there with you. Thank you 🙏
you are such a courageous person! I really hope the therapy will allow you to slowly process these memories so that you will be less haunted by them. Hang in there!
I'm reading your book, I'm so sorry. I never experienced any of this.. so I don't know what to say. your book is beautifully written. it's so sad, yet hopeful. I'm I. the chapter "Loss" love you, it will be ok, you are safe. ❤ pink hearts for Michaela
YOU Are A Beautiful, Glorious, Shining STAR! Having experienced the worst of mankind I know you NOW can really recognize The Best of Mankind! With every applause, every standing ovation may you recognize, KNOW! You are still here, still fierce because of the piercing and THAT SOUL, That Soul is just FINE. YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE HERE.👍🏿👍🏼👍🏼👏🏽👏👏🏿 💚💚💚
Talking about my childhood trauma is so difficult. It’s just so dark for me, I feel like people do not believe that it’s true, so they blame me for it somehow, or I feel it’s too awful for people to hear. You will be missed beautiful soul!😅Your light made this world a better place!❤
I'm very sad that you had to go through all that you had. I wish your soul to be healed in all levels and I hope G-d will help you in it This is a very important video. Thank you for telling me about this. I'm sure this will help many people.
I Love you ❤ i read your book.. i'm only 13 but i don't have words you are so BEAUTIFUL AND AMAZING❤❤ i dance ballett too and i will BE so good Like you ❤ i believe in you 🌌
Wow thank you so much for sharing this- I'm sure you just talking about your struggles is extremely difficult and that in it self is extremely courageous. Hang in there!
Hang in there!!!Just discovered you and I am so happy that my little black daughter can watch you and see that even black girls can be excellent ballerinas
The world is a beautiful place..just too many ugly souls controlling it...this beautiful princess battled so much in her life, i bet it weighed her down, snatching what little joys she could ( dancing was one) she wouldn't allow the powers that be to take that away from her..i respect her resilience in all of it...peaceful sleep for her now..❤
Thank you for our honesty and sharing. But please take care of your own health first. You are more than your past sweet girl. And yes, you deserve the help you are getting now. And thank you for letting of us know -- get help when you need it.
I just came across your story sometimes we have the privilege of being exposed to different people in their life stories and become blessed by getting to know just a tiny piece of someone. I’m glad that I came across you and your story I’m so happy that you were chosen by that family and blessed with the life that you have been given and have had the ability to express your dream and to develop your talent. I have a son who has had trauma in his life that is partly unknown to me and he has had nightmares. So thank you for telling your story about the importance of getting help! And I just wanted to share a scripture from the book of Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 11 there is near and dear to my heart. In addition, I know a little bit about trauma myself being sexually abused as a child and not having my father in my life and being told that he didn’t want any more children. Jeremiah 29 and 11 says, for I know the thoughts and plans I have for you says the Lord, thoughts to give you a future and not to harm you, for you to be successful! Lastly I’m not sure which chapter and verse but it says that your latter days she’ll be better than your former days! And I have lived the Scriptures I am hole today about the practice as a therapist to help other people realize that they can become their dream!
Personally, I think you've told your story enough. I think it's perfectly reasonable to say to interviewers that you do not want to be asked about your early childhood any more. You are SO much more than the sum of those experiences. Ma HaShem grant you peace and sweet dreams.
It's crazy how her skin should be a flaw but it looks like a constellation of stars all around her neck, it's extremely beautiful, very sorry if she was ever made to feel less than because of it, she's exquisite..
Hello Michaela Danie here from South Africa i started to following you from 15/01/2023 it is very broken and im happy you are still alive and how far you come im going to call you Michaela Africachild
it's amazing what she lived thru.. sad news to hear she's no longer with us on earth. i wonder if the cause of death was ever revealed.. my my heavens , I wish she had more time to experience peace on Earth after watching this vlog of hers about PTSD.. I hope she at least experienced some peace before moving on to the final resting place
I hope you feel better ! And know that these traumas are in the past and it’s done ..... sometimes it’s hard to differentiate between the past and now because it feels like it’s happening now even though the reality is that it’s not. I think that’s the line that’s very hard to keep for people who have ptsd.
I know it hurts you to tell your story but it is truelly changing the world thanks for the sacrifice. You areSo beautiful so empowering so talentented:)!! If I saw this when I was a kid id be a ballerina today! Haha
Yes, by re-telling it again and again you keep the memories alive and fresh. They say that telling the story can be even more traumatic than when it originally happened. They give a great explanation for it I just can't vocalize. At four most of the trauma would have subsided but you keep it fresh and alive by re-telling it. You do need to talk about it and vocalize it to a professional will help to fade the pain of such magnitude. You're right it isn't fair. So make a pact to yourself to stop telling it after a certain date. Actually, write your memoir and say to yourself, "After my press junket, I promise that I will not tell this story again. If anyone wants to know about it, I will refer them to my book. Unless and until I want to." Might I recommend a book called, Ageless body, timeless mind."
Don't know if you belive in the Bible. But you're the Joseph in other people stories. I know its a Traumatic past. Especially at such a tender age. Courage that's your mirrors reflection. Courage brought you this far. I hope now that you made it. Don't let your past destroy your future. The Brain is a record of the Past- Joe Dispenza... He has helped many people overcome that. You are the reason now to create a new Future... Live for the ones who would love to see you soar. Lve. 🙂
Rest in peace, Michaela. 😔
My heart hurts. May she RIP. 💔
You experienced such hate, violence, and terror in your life no decent human let alone a child should ever have to experience. You've left a burning light of your presence in this world. May you never experience another nightmare again. R.I.P.
Who hated her? Where’d you get that, oh that’s right the orphanage where they mistreated her in her homeland, I forgot about that.
@@ollieenger1424 Also in her career, she was bullied because of her skin condition and her skin color.
We will miss you Michaela ❤
So sad, gone too soon Michaela 😢❤
Terribly terribly sad. She never stopped hurting
My Heart Is Broken💔💔Oh Noooo. Let's Pray For Her Sister.
RIP queen.
Thank you so much for your willingness to share this! It’s a very personal situation and you could have easily chosen not to. Anyone who is so willing to share so much of themselves as you have has earned my respect! Know that this is going to help many others who are struggling with situations too, and that will bring much help and healing!
Thank you for being the authentic YOU. May you rest peacefully in your loving mother arms.❤
💜🙏🏼
So proud of you for sharing about your journeys with trauma and PTSD. It can be daunting enough to experience PTSD, acknowledge its existence and your need for help, and do the painful work necessary to learn new ways to cope with a history of trauma, but using your platform to amplify the importance of reaching out really goes above and beyond. Wishing you all the best on the long and winding roads of personal growth and recovery, in all their forms.
just literally "stumbled upon" your background and your story and all your sites and traces in the web - you´re amazingly inspiring! NEVER Give up - live every moment of you life - you so much deserve it!
Such a profound life and tragic loss. See your family and teacher. Rest in peace❤
I’m so excited about reading your book and sharing your encouraging story of perseverance to my girls. You’re such an awesome person love! Keep pushing forward Beautiful lady!
Beautiful and generous sharing! I am so glad that you are seeing a therapist to help you work through the traumatic memories. Talking to someone about these and working through the pain is a must in order to dissolve and let go of the trauma, and you are taking the right step forward. What I admire about you is your generosity and courage in sharing this with your fans so that they will also pay attention to their emotional well-being. Love ya
Rest in Power, Queen.
You are my role model and the light of my days. Thank you so much for sharing your pain with us at the cost of your health and happiness. I wish I had someone like you to talk to on days when I'm scared - but at least I have these videos to watch over and over again. 🙂
I hate you have to go through this. Thanking for sharing this you don't know how helpful it was to know somebody truly understands.
Rest in peace angel🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Why is it so difficult to live with what has already happened? Seems like we should be able to just move on, but some how your mind keeps bringing things that happened long ago to the forefront. There must be a reason for this. I think that maybe there's something we need to do. Maybe there's something we need to resolve in order to be able to move on and leave it behind. This idea is worth investigating even if we can't relive it and correct all of the wrong. I think that somehow things can be resolved within ourselves at least enough for us to go on living our lives without the major obstacles that the past can place in our way. You are amazing, even without your dancing accomplishments and always have been. And the little girl inside, who thinks she's nothing, is actually number 1. She just had no idea. She is a fighter. So proud of you! Best to you!
So proud of the strides you have taken already. Thank you for addressing mental health issues and the trauma you have gone through. If it was not for Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) I would be reliving the nightmares of violent apartheid and its after effects.
She was so beautiful! Rest in Power sister...your loss is so sad...peace be unto your soul 🙏❤
I hope you can relax :) I hope and pray for you and that you can overcome all things that made you upset and anxious. I am praying for you. I used to dance til I was 25 but gave it up as I did not have great feet or extension and pulled a hamstring when young. You are very amazing. If talking about all of what you went through upsets you then don't talk about it. We get it! It would be too much for anyone. Just feel better dear! A nurse in Michigan.
You'll be so missed. ❤
😔😪R.I.P. SWEETHEART. YOU'RE FREE NOW.
Now you are at peace 🥺
Thank you so much for discussing your PTSD. Due to my own PTSD, I've suffered from a lot of the symptoms you describe. You reach out to so many people- thank you for feeling courageous enough to share it. It's not something you have to do, and you do it anyway. You're wonderful ❤️
Thank you very much Michaela for your authenticity and for sharing about this tabou🙏This is very inspiring for other orphans to discover how you have been and how you are struggling with it. And just to see you as an human, not an hero, but just someone who can testify. This is very precious. And this is a real honor to meet your path in any way. Thank you for being who you are today and sharing your doubts, your pains, as well as your joy and your grace through dance. With love from France ❤ Yoann
I’m so sorry for all you went through, and I’m so sorry you are gone too soon. May you now rest in peace ❤️
Tomorrow I'm leaving Holland for a holiday, and I packed your book in my hand luggage to read. I'm so glad I watched this video before I go, because it really adds to my vision of you as a humanbeing like everybody else. I knew some things about your past and to be honest, I used to wonder a lot on how you've managed to function so "normal" in society. I thought you were doing good, I kinda assumed it, but at the same time I couldn't imagine because of all you went through. I am really thankful for your honesty, this video is kind off the missing piece for me. Michaela, I wish you all of good things. In a way, I'm really proud to be able to say that one of the persons I look up to, reached out and searched for help from a therapist. Your story inspires me, but also your willingness to cope and your willpower to get out of negative cycles inspires me endlessly. Thank you. ♥️
Never give up 😘 - M
R.I.P. Michaela DePrince!
I am so grateful to have found her & can watch her dance.
She suffered so much, but she danced ballet so well.
R.I.P. to the “Black Swan”. 🖤
I wish I could hug her.
I used to have recurring nightmare from my childhood well into adulthood. I finally talked to my Mom about it, she said, "you remember that?"
I said, "no it's a dream, not a memory."
She then told me it was not a dream, but that it actually happened. For some time afterwards I could not stop shaking, but, I've never had that dream again.
To expel the darkness all you need to do is light a candle. Evil lurks in shadows, so shine your light, and they'll disappear like mist in the sun.
I am so happy that your mum did not gaslight you. Mine just says, you w’ere a child and chldren exaggerate things.
I knew your story from the documentary etc. I can't believe how much you had to go through. But your inner strength, resilience and bravery during your short time here on Earth, really IS inspiring. That core wound of abandonment as a child, and sharing your story of cPTSD just makes you all the more of a role model, which does not mean that you should have to have had those memories and feelings in the first place, or relive them, in dreams or flashbacks. I really really hope that you CAN rest now, with your mom right there with you. Thank you 🙏
You and your story will live forever 😢 your light will shine forever ❤❤❤❤😢😢
you are such a courageous person! I really hope the therapy will allow you to slowly process these memories so that you will be less haunted by them. Hang in there!
I'm reading your book, I'm so sorry. I never experienced any of this.. so I don't know what to say. your book is beautifully written. it's so sad, yet hopeful. I'm I. the chapter "Loss" love you, it will be ok, you are safe. ❤ pink hearts for Michaela
YOU Are A Beautiful, Glorious, Shining STAR! Having experienced the worst of mankind I know you NOW can really recognize The Best of Mankind! With every applause, every standing ovation may you recognize, KNOW! You are still here, still fierce because of the piercing and THAT SOUL, That Soul is just FINE. YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE HERE.👍🏿👍🏼👍🏼👏🏽👏👏🏿 💚💚💚
Rest in peace ❤
You bring light to this world. Thank you for your presence and existing in this world. You bring hope to all my love. Thank you! Love you!
Talking about my childhood trauma is so difficult. It’s just so dark for me, I feel like people do not believe that it’s true, so they blame me for it somehow, or I feel it’s too awful for people to hear. You will be missed beautiful soul!😅Your light made this world a better place!❤
!! @ the part about feeling it's too awful to burden someone else's ears
I'm very sad that you had to go through all that you had. I wish your soul to be healed in all levels and I hope G-d will help you in it
This is a very important video. Thank you for telling me about this. I'm sure this will help many people.
What a shock. RIP beautiful soul🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
Gorgeous ❤❤sorry you went through so much. You are at peace restfully sleeping. Its our loss😢
I just read your book and happy to hear you have help in this because it's not strange that you have these problems. Big hugs.
I Love you ❤ i read your book.. i'm only 13 but i don't have words you are so BEAUTIFUL AND AMAZING❤❤ i dance ballett too and i will BE so good Like you ❤ i believe in you 🌌
Rest in peace😢😢😢
I love your vlogs! I was really looking forward to the next one and it was so cool. Truthful and useful :)
I can believe that you have PTSD with everything you experienced .It,s great you found help ❤️❤️ I wish you all the best/luck in the world ❤️❤️
Wow thank you so much for sharing this- I'm sure you just talking about your struggles is extremely difficult and that in it self is extremely courageous. Hang in there!
Hang in there!!!Just discovered you and I am so happy that my little black daughter can watch you and see that even black girls can be excellent ballerinas
The world is a beautiful place..just too many ugly souls controlling it...this beautiful princess battled so much in her life, i bet it weighed her down, snatching what little joys she could ( dancing was one) she wouldn't allow the powers that be to take that away from her..i respect her resilience in all of it...peaceful sleep for her now..❤
Thank you for our honesty and sharing. But please take care of your own health first. You are more than your past sweet girl. And yes, you deserve the help you are getting now. And thank you for letting of us know -- get help when you need it.
I just came across your story sometimes we have the privilege of being exposed to different people in their life stories and become blessed by getting to know just a tiny piece of someone. I’m glad that I came across you and your story I’m so happy that you were chosen by that family and blessed with the life that you have been given and have had the ability to express your dream and to develop your talent. I have a son who has had trauma in his life that is partly unknown to me and he has had nightmares. So thank you for telling your story about the importance of getting help! And I just wanted to share a scripture from the book of Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 11 there is near and dear to my heart. In addition, I know a little bit about trauma myself being sexually abused as a child and not having my father in my life and being told that he didn’t want any more children. Jeremiah 29 and 11 says, for I know the thoughts and plans I have for you says the Lord, thoughts to give you a future and not to harm you, for you to be successful! Lastly I’m not sure which chapter and verse but it says that your latter days she’ll be better than your former days! And I have lived the Scriptures I am hole today about the practice as a therapist to help other people realize that they can become their dream!
Keep dancing and being your true self. You are loved!
WE READ ABOUT YOU AT SCHOOL! THE BOOK WAS AMAZING
Personally, I think you've told your story enough. I think it's perfectly reasonable to say to interviewers that you do not want to be asked about your early childhood any more. You are SO much more than the sum of those experiences.
Ma HaShem grant you peace and sweet dreams.
Thank you so much for sharing dear Michaela. You're amazing. Sending you lots of love and light! 💗💗💗
I hope everything gets better! I really do! ❤
gone to soon, but you wil ive for ever, rest in peace
Thank you 💗
It's crazy how her skin should be a flaw but it looks like a constellation of stars all around her neck, it's extremely beautiful, very sorry if she was ever made to feel less than because of it, she's exquisite..
Hello Michaela Danie here from South Africa i started to following you from 15/01/2023 it is very broken and im happy you are still alive and how far you come im going to call you Michaela Africachild
it's amazing what she lived thru.. sad news to hear she's no longer with us on earth. i wonder if the cause of death was ever revealed.. my my heavens , I wish she had more time to experience peace on Earth after watching this vlog of hers about PTSD.. I hope she at least experienced some peace before moving on to the final resting place
May her soul rest in peace🙏🏿
Soo sad 😢. Such a loss.
What happened?
I hope you feel better ! And know that these traumas are in the past and it’s done ..... sometimes it’s hard to differentiate between the past and now because it feels like it’s happening now even though the reality is that it’s not. I think that’s the line that’s very hard to keep for people who have ptsd.
So sorry love❤
Rest in Peace and Love ❤
siento tanta tristeza, pero creo q ue Dios te queria a su lado, para que sigas ayudando a muchos niños como tu a alcanzar sus sueños D.e P.
I will think of you when I can't sleep!
❤️❤️❤️Thank you for sharing this
I know it hurts you to tell your story but it is truelly changing the world thanks for the sacrifice. You areSo beautiful so empowering so talentented:)!! If I saw this when I was a kid id be a ballerina today! Haha
So sad she is gone 😢
RIP Michaela!
RIP dear girl.
Yes, by re-telling it again and again you keep the memories alive and fresh. They say that telling the story can be even more traumatic than when it originally happened. They give a great explanation for it I just can't vocalize. At four most of the trauma would have subsided but you keep it fresh and alive by re-telling it. You do need to talk about it and vocalize it to a professional will help to fade the pain of such magnitude.
You're right it isn't fair. So make a pact to yourself to stop telling it after a certain date. Actually, write your memoir and say to yourself, "After my press junket, I promise that I will not tell this story again. If anyone wants to know about it, I will refer them to my book. Unless and until I want to." Might I recommend a book called, Ageless body, timeless mind."
I wonder if she ever got help was she in therapy very sad beautiful soul Rest In Peace
Linda! Vuela alto angelito
What killed her? 😢
Nightmares can take your life ....almost happened to me😢
Deprince how are you have you going before to Sierra Leone? If not yet you need try and go see your back ground.
Keep dancing sweet Angel 😢
Gone too soon, Rest in peace
Thanks
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We love y ❤
You got this girl. 💋
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RIP SWEETHEART 😔❤
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RIP 🕊🤍🕊
😭😭😭😭😭
R.i.P
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Don't know if you belive in the Bible. But you're the Joseph in other people stories. I know its a Traumatic past. Especially at such a tender age. Courage that's your mirrors reflection. Courage brought you this far. I hope now that you made it. Don't let your past destroy your future. The Brain is a record of the Past- Joe Dispenza... He has helped many people overcome that. You are the reason now to create a new Future... Live for the ones who would love to see you soar. Lve. 🙂
Could it be that the trauma and related stress caused the heart issue?😢sad
Hi Michaela deprince my name is Memunatu Kamara I watch your video