Shy Keenan

“have come to learn is that for those of us who have been abused, whatever path we take and however well we recover our lives, most of us are made to work very hard just to prevent ourselves from becoming the stereotype of the victim of child sexual abuse. The feared social outcasts, rejected and discriminated against because someone else committed a crime upon them. I always wanted a life free from all of that and often found it very hard to find my way. When my childhood abusers took my childhood and stole my innocence, they also condemned me to various multiple life sentences which have stolen parts of my adulthood. To make things worse, most of these life sentences don’t even become apparent until later on in life. One”
― Shy Keenan, Broken : The Most Shocking Childhood Story Ever Told

“I’m not a victim: this word only describes what happened to me; it doesn’t define me. Nor am I a survivor: this almost suggests I’m over it, when this isn’t true either. I am a Phoenix, rising from the ashes of a broken life, an ongoing survival in progress.”
― Shy Keenan, Broken : The Most Shocking Childhood Story Ever Told