Abuse-survivors Quote by Carolyn Spring Download Open image ““Bemoaning my existence wasn’t changing my existence.”” — Carolyn Spring ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abuse-survivors Change Complaining Helplessness Life Powerless Powerless-quotes Powerlessness Victim mentality Victim-role Victimized
“I stopped living a long time ago, in order to simply exist. Now I am trying to leave existence, in order to step into… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“Even non-change is imperceivable change, because inaction will slowly change you from what you could have been, to what you never will be.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“I was, but then I realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“What beliefs and perceptions about you and your life have you been unconsciously agreeing to that you’d have to change in order to create… — Joe Dispenza Copy Share Image
“Change isn't about becoming someone new—it's about removing everything that isn't authentically you.” — Alex Rivera Copy Share Image
“You’ve given me reason to really live and not just exist anymore. I don’t think you realize just how much you’ve changed me in… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
“Changing my own actions may not change the world, but it's a start.” — Jacqueline Pearce Copy Share Image
“The time has come. I really feel I must relinquish my former identity. I have to try to make a change, or I will… — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
“I can no longer deny that bad things happened to me. I can’t be absolutely sure what happened to me, or who did them… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“It was that culture of denial that allowed my abuse to take place to start with. Did you know that it wasn't until 1984… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“No, my GP hadn’t ever heard of dissociative disorders and just wanted to prescribe medication, but I could still build a good, supportive relationship… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“I have met many, many severely distressed people whose daily lives are filled with the agony of both remembered and unremembered trauma, who try… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go shopping with… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“There is a slave trade still in this country—yes, the real and horrific sex and human trafficking trade run by organised criminal gangs, which… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“As a child, the best way to survive was to be still, to submit—to do nothing that might incur further harm. That belief had… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“Denial is our very real, personal response to our own trauma. But denial is the normative response to trauma—by everyone. Society may deny that… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousness, we can do the… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“no recovery from trauma is possible without attending to issues of safety, care for the self, reparative connections to other human beings, and a… — Janina Fisher Copy Share Image
“I'm still not sure if I was a victim or not... and if I was, who was my abuser?” — Eskay Teel 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 not pretending.… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“Survivors of abuse show us the strength of their personal spirit every time they smile.” — Jeanne McElvaney 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 victim is… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“The more I focus my time and energy on withstanding a real life, I am able to overcome and come out victorious.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment… — Warwick Middleton Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons a survivor finds it so difficult to see herself as a victim is that she has been blamed repeatedly for… — Diane Langberg 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 won't "just… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
“Dissociated trauma memories don't reveal themselves like ordinary memories. Like pieces of a puzzle, they escape the primitive part of our brain where the… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
“When you accept things as they are, you allow yourself to make choices, that will help create the change you seek.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“There came a time in my life when I had to admit to myself that I have some very clear narcissistic tendencies. Ironically, it… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
