Communication Quote by John Bradshaw

“encourages higher levels of conversion by offering a more emotional experience.”

— Herb Sorensen

“Emotional abusers condition their victims to feel ashamed, inadequate, and unstable. This is because they are cowards, incapable of healthy relationships with strong and…

— Jackson MacKenzie

“Sexual abuse injects poisonous lies into its victims’ hearts and minds. “You’re not worthy” is one of them.”

— Carolyn Byers Ruch

“If you try to convert someone, it will never be to effect his salvation but to make him suffer like yourself, to be sure…

— Emil M. Cioran

Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.

— Adeline Yen Mah

“until victims know deep in their souls that it is a choice to be an abuser, they will continue to entertain pity for toxic…

— Shannon Thomas

“in touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept the powerlessness, or those other supplied states of being which are not native…

— Audre Lorde

“As a survivor of sibling abuse, the toxic shame is not for the survivor to carry. You didn’t do anything wrong. You were not…

— Dana Arcuri CTRC

“This transformation involves three dynamics: 1. The identification with shame-based models and the carrying of their unexpressed shame. 2. The trauma of abandonment and…

— John Bradshaw

“Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of cruelty—or violence—he…

— Lundy Bancroft

“It is a source of power and entertainment for a toxic person to destroy an originally healthy and happy person. This point is often…

— Shannon Thomas

“psychological abusers damage others – not out of impaired judgement – but because they enjoy the control they gain from abusing people.”

— Shannon Thomas