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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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    Ellen Bass
    “So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis”
    ― Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
    tags: abuse, abusive, blame, child-abuse, childhood-abuse, courage, emotional-abuse, guilt, healing, innocence, lies, reality, recovery, relationships, responsibility, sexual-abuse, shame, survivor, victim
    274 likes

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    Shannon L. Alder
    “The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: abuse, blaming, bullied, cheated-on, choices, daughter-of-god, dumped, embarrassed, emotional-abuse, games, hated, humiliated, hurt, hurting-you, ignored, lack-of-respect, lied-to, lies, not-good-enough, not-nice, not-pretty, options, overlooked, physical-abuse, self-centeredness, self-esteem, self-respect, sexual-abuse, sons-of-god, taken-for-granted, tortured, verbal-abuse, women-empowerment
    442 likes

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    Andrei Lankov
    “To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.”
    ― Andrei Lankov
    tags: emotional-abuse, emotional-neglect, mental-disorder-bias, mental-disorders, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, stigma, suffering, suffering-cruelty, suffering-quote, violence
    90 likes

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    Danielle Bernock
    “Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin.”
    ― Danielle Bernock, Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals
    tags: captive, childhood-trauma, emotional-abuse, freedom, healing, healing-the-emotional-self, invalidate, lies, love, love-heals, marginalized, pain, ptsd, screams, screams-of-agony, silent-pain, trauma, validation
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    “It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.”
    ― Aisha Mirza
    tags: emotional-abuse, hurting, mental-health, self-awareness
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate you if you are right. They will hate you if you are popular. They will hate you when you get attention. They will hate you when people in their life like you. They will hate you if you worship a different version of their God. They will hate you if you are spiritual. They will hate you if you have courage. They will hate you if you have an opinion. They will hate you when people support you. They will hate you when they see you happy. Heck, they will hate you while they post prayers and religious quotes on Pinterest and Facebook. They just hate. However, remember this: They hate you because you represent something they feel they don’t have. It really isn’t about you. It is about the hatred they have for themselves. So smile today because there is something you are doing right that has a lot of people thinking about you.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: abuse, abusive-people, accomplishments, beauty, beotch, bitter-women, blamers, blaming, bringchangetomind-com, bullies
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    Dennis Sharpe
    “She looked at him like it physically hurt her not to speak, and yet she stayed silent.”
    ― Dennis Sharpe, First Boy
    tags: emotional-abuse, fear, silent-pain
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    Jeanne McElvaney
    “You can recognize survivors of abuse by their courage. When silence is so very inviting, they step forward and share their truth so others know they aren't alone.”
    ― Jeanne McElvaney, Healing Insights: Effects of Abuse for Adults Abused as Children
    tags: abuse-recovery, abuse-survivors, childhood-abuse, childhood-sexual-abuse, effects-of-child-abuse, harrietta-s-happenstance, healing-abuse, healing-insights, jeanne-mcelvaney, spirit-unbroken-abby-s-story, survivors-of-abuse
    106 likes

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    Jeanne McElvaney
    “Survivors of abuse show us the strength of their personal spirit every time they smile.”
    ― Jeanne McElvaney, Healing Insights: Effects of Abuse for Adults Abused as Children
    tags: abuse-recovery, abuse-survivors, childhood-abuse, childhood-sexual-abuse, effects-of-child-abuse, harrietta-s-happenstance, healing-abuse, healing-insights, jeanne-mcelvaney, spirit-unbroken-abby-s-story, survivors-of-abuse
    72 likes

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    C. Kennedy
    “Don't judge yourself by what others did to you.”
    ― C. Kennedy, Ómorphi
    tags: abuse, abuse-recovery, abuse-sexual-abuse, abuse-survivors, gay-romance, gay-ya, glbtq, glbtq-romance, lgbtq
    296 likes



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