“When you get to Hell, I'll be sitting in the hot tub waiting." Cate Harlow, PI” — Kristen Houghton Copy Share Image
Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse. — Deepa Kumar Copy Share Image
“I believe we all heal differently, it is a process, and many like me are here to help you as you heal,… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“The truth is misrepresented, distorted, altered, tampered and changed in the mind of the child.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
If there is anything that has broken the church's relationship with families, it is the global sexual abuse scandal. — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
“We require to get out of our own built up Cocoons, these need to be worn, softened and freed through.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“The history of hysteria is a history of the relation between the colonizing father and the colonized devalued other.” — Judith L. Alpert Copy Share Image
“One by one, they pushed ahead to get a swipe at Ruth, her only ally the narrow confines of the bus aisle.” — Elizabeth Garden Copy Share Image
Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“If a child is abused by a family member, most likely they blame themselves for the integral act of abuse than those… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Abused children pick up from their past encounters to expect less of themselves and others. They are not commonly taught to trust… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Games where someone wants to touch your body where your swimsuit covers or they ask you to touch their body where their… — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
“As I started my personal voyage to unpack the childhood that I repressed for so long, everything unexpectedly made sense as to… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“You owe it to yourself to stand up and advocate for yourself. To not agree to what is harmful to you. To… — Dana Arcuri CTRC Copy Share Image
“Abused children realize that they cannot rely on their emotions since their innocent love and trust are already crushed and betrayed. They… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“To survivors of sexual abuse, for bullying your demons in any manner you choose, and for accepting only the definition of therapy… — Pam Godwin Copy Share Image
“Without (hetero)sexual abuse, (hetero)sexual harassment and the (hetero)sexualization of every aspect of female bodies and behaviors, there would not be patriarchy, and… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
“If you have been raped or sexually assaulted and you have been blamed, or fear that you may be blamed, I just… — Robert Uttaro Copy Share Image
“He says, "I would walk around the township and I could point them out, which girls had been abused. You could see… — Emma Brockes Copy Share Image
“It’s estimated that $55 million dollars is spent on aftercare in Kenya alone every year. This model is not practical or sustainable… — Lisa Cole Copy Share Image
“Living in a family where all the interactions are superficial and shallow can cause a wound that may limit capacity for meaningful… — Linda Bloom Copy Share Image
“In the weeds of childhood sexual abuse, we are the sturdy flowers that kept reaching for a slip of sunshine and a… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
“Some people, who never engaged in any research about DID, claim that there is no connection between child abuse and DID. Then… — Patrick Suraci Copy Share Image
“Several psychologists (L. Armstrong, 1994; Enns, McNeilly, Corkery, & Gilbert, 1995; Herman, 1992; McFarlane & van der Kolk, 1996; Pope & Brown,… — Rachel E. Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Chapter 4,‘Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief’, uses Zizek’s (1991) insights into cite political role of enjoyment to analyse the hyperbole… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Jill had described this kind of religious upbringing as a form of mental abuse, and I returned to the point, as follows:… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Some alters are what Dr Ross describes in Multiple Personality Disorder as 'fragments', which are 'relatively limited psychic states that express only… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Although the terminology implies scientific endorsement, false memory syndrome is not currently an accepted diagnostic label by the APA and is not… — Michelle Rae Hebl Copy Share Image
“In the 1890s, when Freud was in the dawn of his career, he was struck by how many of his female patients… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“By listening to the “unspoken voice” of my body and allowing it to do what it needed to do; by not stopping… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“Childhood abuse is the misuse of power and control which leads to wrong.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“I can just conceive of the pit of despair, the notion of being powerless and the essence of existence through it entirely” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“It is my personal opinion that all survivors can go from victim to victor and live more than a survivor.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Sexual abuse injects poisonous lies into its victims’ hearts and minds. “You’re not worthy” is one of them.” — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
“Abused children as they grow to believe that they are damaged beyond repair.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.” — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Are you capable to truly distinguish the person you envision in the mirror?” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“The way in which the child is manipulated pulls them into considering the lies.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
