Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin. – Danielle Bernock
The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as obvious. In fact, even among women who have experienced violence from a partner, half or more report that the man’s emotional abuse is what is causing them the greatest harm. – Lundy Bancroft
Injustice is a rule of the service, as you know very well; and since you have to have a good deal of undeserved abuse, you might just as well have it from your friends. – Patrick O’Brian
It’s hard to look for the light when you’re lost in darkness.
Often things are as bad as they seem. – Sheldon Kopp
Do not allow him-the abuser-to tell you who you are or take the blame for his actions.
Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.
And how high can you fly with broken wings?
Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?
It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that they’re going on.
If you can’t be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have… escaped.
Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return.
One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Peace is not just mere absence of violence.
Find the strength inside yourself to value your own worth more than staying with someone who only keeps you down.
Trust is only a five letter word but it can be misused in so many different ways.
You can get out.
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
When it comes to abuse, you believe there’s no way out. There is always help. There is always a way out.
Don’t judge yourself by what others did to you.
Standing alone is better than standing with people who hurt you.
A house where a woman is unsafe is not a home.
You can spend a lifetime trying to forget a few minutes of your childhood.
Sometimes we survive by forgetting.
You survived the abuse. You’re going to survive the recovery.
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