Your writing is gripping. I'm sure many can relate to your words

Like the change to lower case "f" for significance. Do you post on Vocal? 

Let me know, so I can follow you there if you do?

Wow ... that is an amazing story... and a great deal true, as I was recently advised by a wise old man who spends his days hiking in the hills here: "Silence is often the most powerful response."

Allow me to be critical. 
I interpret that you are talking about a child. To achieve such mental strength as the end of your story suggests, it loses credibility. How can a child who does not speak or has chosen to speak as little as possible learn if not from encounters (through other people, mentors, role models, books etc.) that subsequently allow it to maintain its faith? 

From what exactly, would be my provocative question, does any child, indeed any human being, derive spiritual strength if he or she has not first undergone what is commonly recognised as a process of maturation? The accepted hero stories always tell us that before a hero becomes a hero, he has experienced pain, error and suffering, which is necessary to become a hero, hence to free oneself.

The new hero stories, however, and what people scoff at because Hollywood has recently decided to tell them that way, is this: The heroines (they are mostly female now) achieve their mental and physical power just out of nowhere. It comes to them without any previous history, without them having done anything for it, so without having trained hard and without having suffered from insecurities and setbacks, doubts about themselves. Is it not so, that there needs to be a decision that despite these hurdles, one continues to walk the difficult way? And freedom comes to mind and heart as a consequence of that?

Oh, to be truly free, not sure what that looks like anymore and I am an old lady. I  wonder how my grandkids cope with all the technology and pressure that comes with being "liked" on social media. They will have to be strong to resist being totally consumed by all of it, or they to may fall silent.
Great free write.

What a transformation! Faith represents many people who have been through same. It's very few people who discover themselves early in life and 'fly'. 

Self-doubt and societal pressures are burdens laid on most of us from childhood. So we struggle like *f*aith until we see and walk the path to freedom and self-acceptance. 

I think I like this shrink. He didn't force her to talk, only to see and understand and she healed all by herself. Inspiring piece! !LUV 😊