Chungwon Lee

“For adult survivors of abuse and neglect, the three primary areas related to human rights are emotional needs, feelings, and boundaries. I refer to these three areas as the "3 stolen rights". If you were abused or neglected as a child, your rights were violated by a parent or caregiver in all three of these areas.”
― Linda Young, 3 Stolen Rights:: How Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse and Neglect Can Claim Their Rights to Their Needs, Feelings and Boundaries

“There are many perpetrators who seem to have a sixth sense for identifying people who have lost the ability to protest and blame unfairness. If we do not register a “negative” feeling response to hurtfulness, we cannot tell that we are being abused. Instead we tacitly “forgive” our abusers just as we were forced to tacitly forgive our parents, no matter how much ongoing abuse they dish out. This is why psychoanalyst Judith Viorst says:”
― Pete Walker, The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame

“the body contains our past emotions healing work creates space for the release of what we felt long ago”
― Yung Pueblo, Inward

“You think you have all the pain you can bear, but yours will be lessened as you bear mine, and mine will be lessened as I bear yours!”
― C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller