Rachel

“When you start to exercise your voice and agency, those who would prefer you to stay silent and powerless might try to use your past trauma against you by suggesting you still have a lot of healing to do, are clouded by bitterness, are emotionally unhealthy, and so forth. They want you to doubt yourself and stand down. Knowing that, doing the opposite would then be to believe in yourself and stand up. Your past might actually be the reason you see so clearly now, insist on fairness, and get rightly upset over injustice.”
― Wade Mullen, Something's Not Right: Decoding the Hidden Tactics of Abuse--and Freeing Yourself from Its Power