“Sometimes, during our healing journeys, those closest to us can’t help even though we all wish it could be that way. Allow… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
“You're human, all human, tempered with long suffering and brief mortality like a blade forged in fire and ice” — Lila Bowen Copy Share Image
“Overcoming abuse doesn't just happen, It takes positive steps everyday. Let today be the day you start to move forward.” — Assunta Harris Copy Share Image
“For the first time in years, she felt a yearning for something different, something real. Something more than the life she had.” — Talena Winters Copy Share Image
“I’m left with Haymitch in the rubble, wondering if Finnick’s fate would have one day been mine. Why not? Snow could have… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Actions are powerful, but it’s important to acknowledge that so are emotions. Emotional abuse can be the most painful thing a person… — LaTasha Braxton Copy Share Image
“Abused children as they grow to believe that they are damaged beyond repair. A LIE that is believed and stays buried within… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Adjusting her red gown she stared at the ceiling with tears flowing down her face, the white bed sheet soon turned to… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
“Clairey tasted the bile rising up in her throat, could smell the pathetic fear she was giving off, and they were as… — Tracy Winegar Copy Share Image
“You’re too sensitive’ victims of sexual abuse are told over and over by those whose reality depends on being insensitive. Most adults… — Renee Fredrickson Copy Share Image
“There is a moment in our healing journey when our denial crumbles; we realize our experience and it's continued effects on us… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
“In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible… — Aphrodite Matsakis Copy Share Image
“Often feelings of shame, powerlessness, and self-hate are bottled up with the memories, and as the memories come through, these feelings do,… — Laura Davis Copy Share Image
“The framing of women’s abuse narratives as quasi-legal testimony encourages the public, as interpreters, to take the stance of cross-examiners who categorize… — Sue Campbell Copy Share Image
“In spite of the horror, in spite of the tragedy, in spite of the weeks of sleepless nights, I'm finally alive. I'm… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“Our future can be brighter. We know that with the right help, continued treatment, and support we can potentially aim for partial… — carol broad Copy Share Image
“Lies that cause survivors to deny or recent abuse memories and experiences ⸱ The alters who are designated to live in the… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“When there is inconsistency in belief and action (such as being violated by someone who is supposed to love you) our mind… — Rosenna Bakari Copy Share Image
“The experience of childhood sexual abuse leaves some survivors with a high tolerance for pain. Dysfunctional environments require endurance and thick skin.… — Rosenna Bakari Copy Share Image
“Because of dissociation, many victims are able to remember the abuse only when a certain object, smell, color, scene, or experience triggers… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“There was a moment of hesitation in which Joe looked into her eyes, and she looked back without flinching. Many a time,… — Tracy Winegar Copy Share Image
“Despite this documentation for both traumatic amnesia and essentially accurate delayed recall, memory science is often presented as if it supports the… — Jennifer J. Freyd Copy Share Image
“Too often the survivor is seen by [himself or] herself and others as "nuts," "crazy," or "weird." Unless her responses are understood… — Diane Langberg Copy Share Image
“The abused children feel so useless within that they become more vulnerable to exploitation in the future too.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“She listens at doors and around corners. She has always had this habit. A child in danger must learn to pay more… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“We don't go back to wallow, we go back to undo the lies that are back there that are holding its captive… — Darlene Ouimet Copy Share Image
“In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Logic becomes a loud voice when the wall of our past abuse begin to crack with awareness. But that's our adult speaking.… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
“She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even more terrified to… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“SPEAK TO THE CHILD WITHIN YOU: Tell the child within you, the one that has remained buried that the “adult” in you… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Our abusive parent didn't give us the gentle, encouraging nurturing we needed. But healing invites us to give our inner child the… — Jeanne McEvlaney Copy Share Image
“when traumatic events are of human design, those who bear witness are caught in the conflict between victim and perpetrator. All the… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Abusive relationships exist because they provide enough rations of warmth, laughter, and affection to clutch onto like a security blanket in the… — Maggie Young Copy Share Image
“Them: Angel, It was never about you. It was always about them. Their fears, their insecurities, Doubts and misdeeds, Their desire to… — Christine Evangelou Copy Share Image
“Every child apprehends, feels and changes with age and developmental stage, as they also learn to develop. Nevertheless, if you recognize what… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Most survivors tend to be the care-giver rather than the care-receiver. We tend to be good at being spouses and parents, anticipating… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
“It takes Wonder Woman courage and Superman strength to heal the wounds of our abuse... because it brings change... and we are… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
“The human need to be visible is countered by the need to be invisible to avoid further abuse, and the need for… — Christiane Sanderson Copy Share Image
![“Too often the survivor is seen by [himself or] herself and others as "nuts," "crazy," or "weird." Unless her responses are understood within the context of trauma. A traumatic stress reaction consists of *natural* emotions and behaviors in response to a catastrophe, its immediate aftermath, or…” quote by Diane Langberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/edb/diane-langberg-56315_abuse-survivors_too-often-the-survivor-is-seen-by-himsel_1540837.jpg)
