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“Sexual trauma is an action. It’s something that happens to you, not something that you are. What happens to us does not define us. What defines us is so much more than that. We are defined by our values, our actions, our attitudes, and our relationships. Although trauma can throw us and make us feel like we are not ourselves, that’s only the self in transition. Just as we previously struggled a bit to incorporate new experiences into our lives, such as losing a loved one or changing a career, healing from trauma implies a measure of struggle. Who you are, however, has not changed.”
― Life, Reinvented: A Guide to Healing from Sexual Trauma for Survivors and Loved Ones
― Life, Reinvented: A Guide to Healing from Sexual Trauma for Survivors and Loved Ones
“No matter what happened, when it happened, or with whom, there’s one thing that remains the same: it’s hard to believe. Sexual trauma is an event that shatters your world, sense of safety, and implicit trust in others. Your boundaries are violated in the most intrusive way imaginable. It interrupts you of a sense of control over your body and calls into question your entire sense of who you are.”
― Life, Reinvented: A Guide to Healing from Sexual Trauma for Survivors and Loved Ones
― Life, Reinvented: A Guide to Healing from Sexual Trauma for Survivors and Loved Ones
“The first step toward recovery is the choice to face reality. In many ways, the symptoms that survivors experience are the body and mind’s way of forcing you to look at what happened. Memories of sexual trauma seem to rocket around the brains of survivors, refusing to be at rest and constantly putting themselves at the forefront of the survivors‘ minds. The body also holds trauma that expresses itself in many ways. The body of mind work together to force survivors to relate directly to their past experiences. That is, to have a relationship to the past that is free of denial, repression, or distortion. This is a painful process, but it’s the only way forward.”
― Life, Reinvented: A Guide to Healing from Sexual Trauma for Survivors and Loved Ones
― Life, Reinvented: A Guide to Healing from Sexual Trauma for Survivors and Loved Ones
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