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#1

“If someone thinks you’re being dramatic or selfish, then they obviously haven’t walked a mile in your shoes. It’s not important for you to explain yourself. You get a pass here. Don’t let anyone else try to saddle you with guilt or shame. If you need your space, take it.”
― Sarah Newman

tags: child-abuse-survivors, child-sexual-abuse-survivors, dealing-with-people, healing-insights, healthy-boundaries, setting-boundaries, taking-space, toxic-people

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#2

“The experience of childhood sexual abuse leaves some survivors with a high tolerance for pain. Dysfunctional environments require endurance and thick skin. Child survivors sometimes have to commit to sticking things out in order to survive. This pattern of tolerance follows you into adulthood. Instead of using pain as a signal to evaluate and change direction, you may use pain as a signal to try harder. Try harder to please someone. Try harder to control your children. Try harder to be a good friend. Try harder to be successful at a job that you hate. You remain in survival mode that you picked up as a child. Your high tolerance for pain keeps you committed to dysfunctional experiences and relationships that recycle pain from the past. Sometimes, the only way out of this cycle is time in isolation to learn what peace feels like. Sometimes you have to be willing to let go of everything in order to learn how to hold onto anything.”
― Rosenna Bakari

tags: abuse-survivors, child-abuse-survivors, child-sexual-abuse, child-sexual-abuse-survivor, child-sexual-abuse-survivors, pain-tolerance

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#3

“Anyone who shames survivors of trauma and abuse for not healing, is a person who has no compassion for life's suffering”
― Alice Little, Healing the Traumatised Adult

tags: child-abuse, child-abuse-survivors, compassion, suffering, trauma

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#4

“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

tags: denial, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, psychotherapy, ptsd, taboo, trauma, truth

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#5

“PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.”
― Susan Pease Banitt

tags: emotions, healing, mental-health, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, posttraumatic, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, psychology, ptsd, spirituality, stress, trauma, traumatic-experiences, traumatic-stress, traumatized, yoga

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#6

“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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#7

“The blade sings to me. Faintly, so soft against my ears, its voice calms my worries and tells me that one touch will take it all away. It tells me that I just need to slide a long horizontal cut, and make a clean slice. It tells me the words that I have been begging to hear: this will make it ok.”
― Amanda Steele, The Cliff

tags: inspirational, ptsd, rape, self-harm

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#8

“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

tags: advocates, america, anxiety, anxiety-attack, anxiety-disorders, arizona, child-abuse, control, corruption, crime, crime-and-punishment, domestic, domestic-abuse, domestic-violence, enable-abuse, family, family-drama, family-relationships, fighter, government, growing-up, growth, healing, hope, hopeful, hopeful-heart, hurt, injustice, inspire, justice, justice-system, law-enforcement, lawmakers, laws, life, living, memoir, memories, overcoming, panic-attack, panic-attacks, pedophile, physical-abuse, police, politicians, politics, post-traumatic-stress, power, powerful-story, powerless, ptsd, quote, quotes, rape, rape-culture, rape-of-a-child, rape-survivor, raped, red-tape, safety, sexual-abuse, sexual-assault, sexual-violence, south, southern, survival, survive, survivor, survivors-of-abuse, truth, united-states, united-states-of-america, violence, violence-against-women, youth

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#9

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#10

“Broken people don't hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

tags: eliza-and-her-monsters, monster, monsters

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#11

“The monsters were never
under my bed.
Because the monsters
were inside my head.

I fear no monsters,
for no monsters I see.
Because all this time
the monster has been me.”
― Nikita Gill

tags: bedtime-story, depressed, depressed-quotes, depression, fear-quotes, insomnia, life, monster, monsters, monsters-quotes, poem, poetry, sad-quotes, sadness, sleep, story, truth

539 likes

#12

“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: clary, jace, sarcasm

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#13

“If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.”
― Rebecca Manley Pippert

tags: child-abuse, evil, morality, relativism, right-and-wrong

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#14

“Asshole Proximity Disorder”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: abuse, bullying, child-abuse, healing, philosophy, psychology, trauma

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#15

“What model reader did I want as i was writing? An accomplice, to be sure, one who would play my game.”
― Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose

tags: writing

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#16

“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace

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#17

“What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

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#18

“But on paper, things can live forever.
On paper, a butterfly
never dies.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

tags: butterflies, butterfly, death, writing

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#19

“I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
In autumns that there were
With morning mist and silver sun
And wind upon my hair

I sit beside the fire and think
Of how the world will be
When winter comes without a spring
That I shall ever see

For still there are so many things
That I have never seen
In every wood in every spring
There is a different green

I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know

But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: life, time

2810 likes

#20

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: inspiration

8216 likes

#21

“What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.”
― Lao Tzu

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#22

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16470 likes

#23

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

11152 likes

#24

“Loving someone is like having a mental illness that's not covered by health insurance.”
― Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

tags: love, mental-health-quotes

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#25

“You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: maya-angelou

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#26

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

31657 likes

#27

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
― Maya Angelou

2679 likes

#28

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: love

1419 likes