CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) – Tonight, we’re hearing from a Chattanooga woman who turned her pain into purpose.

Once a victim of domestic abuse, she is now the President of Voices, a local survivor-led organization hosted by the Family Justice Center. Voices helps others find hope, healing, and the strength to rebuild.

But before she could help others, Kelsey Bell had to survive her own story.

“I was never living for me.”

“I think the problem was that I never was living for me,” Kelsey begins softly, her voice steady but honest. “A lot of women who end up in these situations, they start out wanting to care for everyone else. I wanted to be a wife. I wanted to be a mother. I wanted to be the person who takes care of others. And that’s a beautiful goal, but if you spend your whole life lea

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