Quotes about Recovery from abuse

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We each have our own ways of sabotaging & keeping ourselves down…Do we need to remain the victim so strongly that we pul — Maureen Brady, Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon u — Maureen Brady, Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
We can ill afford to wait until we have worked through all our memories & feelings about incest before learning to rest — Maureen Brady, Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
Though our childhood abuse left us feeling someone ought to make reparation to us, if we wait a lifetime for that, we ma — Maureen Brady, Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
The bridge out of shame is outrage. Suddenly the obvious becomes stunningly clear—we have been carrying shame for the cr — Maureen Brady, Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
It is a childish notion that once established, our boundaries will never be transgressed again...We shall have to stand — Maureen Brady, Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
your abuser tried to map your life for you. But he does not own you, and you have the freedom and the power to overcome — Patti Feuereisen, Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse--A Book for Teen Girls, Young Women, and Everyone Who Cares About Them
Your instincts may tell you that you can’t survive if you experience feelings. But they are leftover child instincts. Th — Maureen Brady
There's always something in it for the person who is allowing to be taken advantage of." Psychotherapist David in Type 1 — P.A. Speers, Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People
Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced. — Carolyn Wells
As survivors, we’ve been conditioned to be victims sexually. Many of us have never learned to say no or to set limits on — Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
(a quote from a survivor)Read up on the psychology of abuse. Listen to music. Being alone to process without chatter. Us — Shahida Arabi, Becoming the Narcissist's Nightmare: How to Devalue and Discard the Narcissist While Supplying Yourself
The experience of chronic abuse carries within it the gross mislabeling of things. Perpetrators are really "nice daddies — Diane Mandt Langberg, Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse
You’re too sensitive’ victims of sexual abuse are told over and over by those whose reality depends on being insensitive — Renee Fredrickson, Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse
Many of us learned that keeping busy…kept us at a distance from our feelings...Some of us took the ways we busied oursel — Maureen Brady, Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
To heal from child sexual abuse you must believe that you were a victim, that the abuse really did take place. This is o — Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Denial protected us, screening out certain experiences & feelings until we grew strong enough to relate to them...Yet it — Maureen Brady, Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse