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The Nightingale

by Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 20, 2025 10:46AM

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The God of the Woods

by Liz Moore (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 12, 2025 04:33PM

“Most survivors are cope-aholics, people who cope with whatever is thrown at them without reliance on others. They do not seek sympathy for their pain and feel undeserving if it is offered. They are especially adverse to sympathy from others.”
― Renee Fredrickson, Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse

tags: abuse-survivors, coping, coping-mechanism, overly-independent, overwhelmed, self-reliance, self-reliance-independence, survivors, sympathy-vs-empathy

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“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.”
― Turkish Proverbs

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“The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.”
― Shannon L. Alder