"Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense……" — Laura Davies

Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love.… - Laura Davies

"Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can't afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she's being abused-pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground."

— Laura Davies

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2 Quotes by Laura Davies

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Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous,…

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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be… — Hannah Arendt
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. — John Adams
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What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings… — Ezra Taft Benson
When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I… — Bjork
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