107 Quotes by Jeanne McElvaney

You invite a time in the near future when you are no longer building your life on the unknown influences of your childhood sexual abuse.

With the help of your therapist or healing ally, you can identify who makes you feel uneasy, concerned, scared, or defensive.

Each survivor chooses how secrecy is going to fit into their healing. Some share with their immediate family, but not their childhood family and friends.

I think most survivors transfer the shame of their experience into their present-day healing and become ashamed of themselves for needing the time and support.

Dissociated trauma memories are not attached to other memories by association. These memories go directly to the unconscious as a biological response separates awareness from consciousness. It’s a natural, protective occurrence and it happens without will.

Awareness is a gentle beauty. It hovers around me like a fairy, pointing to those things I would miss if I didn’t look past the obvious and on the other side of busy.

Our experience taught us we were alone so we have to break through barriers of shame, fear, and habit to realize the time has come to find help.

Focus on anticipating what serendipity if bringing... because it’s the past, present, and future colliding.