Abuse Survivors


The Deal (Off-Campus, #1)
Seven Sons (Gypsy Brothers, #1)
Killing Sarai (In the Company of Killers, #1)
Wait for You (Wait for You, #1)
Heat & Deceit (Omega Love, #4)
Better-Off Bunny (Hey There, Hop Stuff, #1)
Reap (Scarred Souls, #2)
Micah (The Brash Brothers, #2)
Unbreak Me
Manix (Shadow Bred, #1)
Den of Vipers
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
Fear Me (Broken Love, #1)
Whispers and the Roars
Pretty Stolen Dolls (Pretty Little Dolls, #1)
Bessel van der Kolk
As I discussed in the previous chapter, attachment researchers have shown that our earliest caregivers don't only feed us, dress us, and comfort us when we are upset; they shape the way our rapidly growing brain perceives reality. Our interactions with our caregivers convey what is safe and what is dangerous: whom we can count on and who will let us down; what we need to do to get our needs met. This information is embodied in the warp and woof of our brain circuitry and forms the template of ho ...more
Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

George Orwell
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
George Orwell, 1984

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