84 Quotes About Abuse-recovery

This is how I know I believemy own story—that even when I thinka part of me should still love you, evena little, I want the world to burn beforeyou come close to anyone I love again,even with your kind self.

Staying in a relationship with someone who doesn't love him/herself, is a direct reflection of how much you love and value yourself.

One can learn from what is not said.

There are tons of kids out there who endure chronic abuse and suffer in silence. They can’t trust anyone, they can’t tell anyone, and they have no idea how to get away from it.

Attitudes and ignorance” about (any type of) abuse can be passed down through the generations. It is important to our healing that we sort out the belief systems we adopt; belief systems that were taught to us and because they are so full of lies, they lead to all kinds of depressions, addictions and other struggles while we try to cope with the manifestations of the problems instead of the roots of the problems.

Even though she looks the same as she always has, and the world goes on the way it always has, she isn’t the same on the inside. It’s as though she’s been paused on a single day, a single moment, as though she is stale, slowly rotting on the inside. It scares her, this standstill. There are days she wishes she’d corrode faster, until nothing is left. Those days are the worst, yet still somehow better than the ones in which she wants everything to go back to the way it was.

I am small.So are stars from a distance. It's all a matter of perspective.

I learned that I'd never be free from pain but I could be free from the fear of pain, and that was enough. [...]The fire of pain won't consume me. I can burn and burn and live. I can live on fire. I am fireproof.Second: I can use pain to become.

Sometimes we self-sabotage just when things seem to be going smoothly. Perhaps this is a way to express our fear about whether it is okay for us to have a better life. We are bound to feel anxious as we leave behind old notions of our unworthiness. The challenge is not to be fearless, but to develop strategies of acknowledging our fears and finding out how we can allay them.