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“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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“Instead of saying, "I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues" say "I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over.”
― Horacio Jones

tags: abuse-survivors, broken, damaged, healing, healing-the-past, mental-illness, positive-thinking, postive, recovery, reframing, relationship-issues, shattered, starting-over, survivors, trust, trust-issues

165 likes

“You can recognize survivors of abuse by their courage. When silence is so very inviting, they step forward and share their truth so others know they aren't alone.”
― Jeanne McElvaney, Healing Insights: Effects of Abuse for Adults Abused as Children

tags: abuse-recovery, abuse-survivors, childhood-abuse, childhood-sexual-abuse, effects-of-child-abuse, harrietta-s-happenstance, healing-abuse, healing-insights, jeanne-mcelvaney, spirit-unbroken-abby-s-story, survivors-of-abuse

106 likes

“Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion

tags: abuse-survivors, healing, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, ptsd, shamanism, support, survivors, trauma

131 likes

“Sometimes sex is the price that is exacted from her for warmth and attention. And if these sometimes wonderful moments of closeness must coexist with terrifying, confusing moments of abuse, she learns to see the two as parts of the same experience. She grows to think she wanted the incest itself. Because they’ve become enmeshed, she doesn’t know that it was love she wanted, not sex.”
― E. Sue Blume, Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftereffects in Women

tags: abuse-survivors, child-sexual-abuse, enmeshed, healing-insights, incest

3 likes

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