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“Naming what was done to me did not define me by harm. It freed me from the lie that the harm was my fault. And in that freedom, something new became possible—not forgetting, not erasing, but standing on solid ground with language strong enough to hold the truth.”
― R.J. Koehler, The Weight of Silence: A Memoir of Childhood Trauma, Survival, and Reclaiming Your Voice