Abuse-recovery Quote by Lorraine Nilon

“Abuse is never contained to a present moment, it lingers across a person’s lifetime and has pervasive long-term ramifications.”

— Lorraine Nilon

“When we don’t honor ourselves, we are coming into agreement with the abuser’s toxic agenda. We end up abusing ourselves too.   While”

— Shannon Thomas

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

— Carolyn Byers Ruch

“If abuse is to cease, and genuine love, respect, and trust are to be restored to the family picture- indeed to humanity's universal picture-…

— Moriah S. St. Clair

“Perpetrators of abuse often make their victims believe that they are somehow responsible for their own abuse. Such misplaced notions shift the blame of…

— Mallika Nawal

“To be defined by another is the worst form of abuse”

— Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban

“They also highlight the fact that a psychologically abusive person has no moral compass and is more than willing to use innocent people as…

— Shannon Thomas

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

— Shannon Thomas

“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

“An abuser can be thought of not as a man who is a "deviant," but rather as one who learned his society's lessons too…

— Lundy Bancroft

“The experience of chronic abuse carries within it the gross mislabeling of things. Perpetrators are really "nice daddies." Victims are "evil and seductive" (at…

— Diane Langberg

“Verbal abuse by its very nature undermines and discounts its victim’s perceptions.”

— Patricia Evans