“Even in times of trauma, we try to maintain a sense of normality until we no longer can. That, my friends, is called surviving. Not healing. We never become whole again ... we are survivors. If you are here today... you are a survivor. But those of us who have made it through hell and are still standing? We bare a different name: warriors.”
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“Mind control is built on lies and manipulation of attachment needs.”
― Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
― Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
“It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“I know what it's like to be afraid of your own mind.”
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