Katherine Walker

“These memories are lost to our conscious and cannot be remembered like an ordinary memory. Sometimes they come to us as flashbacks.”
― Jeanne McElvaney, Childhood Abuse

“Whatever the times, suffering eventually touches every life. How we live with it, and help others to, is one of the great creative and ethical opportunities”
― Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person

“They will give you an example of how things can be for you as you walk out of the dark shadows of your abuse.”
― Jeanne McElvaney, Childhood Abuse

“: 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