51 Quotes About Recovery-from-abuse
- Author Kit Rocha
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They'd smother what was left of her pride in well-meaning sympathy.
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- Author Olga Trujillo
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I started crying. "When will it stop hurting?" "I don't know. I wish I could tell you. I wish I could take the pain away. But it will get better and easier for you over time.
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- Author Carolyn Wells
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Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.
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- Author Kit Rocha
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They took something from me, and if I don't get it back on my own, it won't matter. It won't be mine.""They?""Trent. All of them. They made me a victim. ... Help me be something else again.
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- Author Kenny Weiss
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My trauma changed who I was as a person.
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- Author Kenny Weiss
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Some people equate trauma to something big like war, death, extreme acts of violence, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or natural disasters. While those are all examples of trauma, trauma doesn’t have to be big like that.
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- Author Beverly Engel
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It is only when we feel deprived that we resent giving to others. Self-care does not mean you stop caring about others; it just means you start caring more about you. Start thinking about yourself more and others less. Since you have a choice between taking care of someone else, or giving to yourself, try choosing yourself sometimes.
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- Author Maureen Brady
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Many of us learned that keeping busy…kept us at a distance from our feelings...Some of us took the ways we busied ourselves—becoming overachievers & workaholics—as self esteem…But whenever our inner feeling did not match our outer surface, we were doing ourselves a disservice…If stopping to rest meant being barraged with this discrepancy, no wonder we were reluctant to cease our obsessive activity.
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- Author Ellen Bass
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To heal from child sexual abuse you must believe that you were a victim, that the abuse really did take place. This is often difficult for survivors. When you’ve spent your life denying the reality of your abuse, when you don’t want it to be true, or when your family repeatedly calls you crazy or a liar, it can be hard to remain firm in the knowledge that you were abused.
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