Katherine Walker

“I believe forgiving supports us most profoundly when it comes toward the end of our journey, when we intimately know what we are forgiving ~”
― Jeanne McElvaney, Childhood Abuse

“Forgiveness serves us best when we understand we are no longer connected to our abusers by their web of secrets and power to control our choices.”
― Jeanne McElvaney, Childhood Abuse

“when highly sensitive patients had experienced a trauma, sexual or otherwise, they had been unusually affected and so developed a neurosis.”
― Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person

“: Their acts violated our trust. : The secrecy told us we were alone. : The shame swirling through our experience convinced us we didn’t deserve the best for ourselves. : Our circumstances twisted our beliefs about what to expect out of life. : Surviving our unpredictable, disempowering childhood left little opportunity to explore our talents or creativity. It’s been said, living through childhood sexual abuse is like living in a war zone. Each of us survived by doing the best we could. Now we have the opportunity to celebrate the child we were and all we did to reach this place in life when healing is possible. Now we get to update our information. And this will bring encouraging, empowering, joy-filled changes into our lives. Each time you go back into a memory, you have the opportunity to ‘see’ what you learned in that moment of trauma. When I was six-years old, playing with my doll with abandon that blocked out all other noise, I found”
― Jeanne McElvaney, Childhood Abuse