Healing From Abuse Quotes
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Healing From Abuse Quotes & Sayings
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Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.
— Stephen Richards
There is comfort in knowing that you don't have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.
— Ellen Bass
You can't sweep something broken into a bag and call it whole. It takes repair.
— Paula Heller Garland
Bruised, beaten, shaken, weakened, tossed, thrown, lost, alone, heard, helped, healed, hope... it still works.
— N'Zuri Za Austin
The moment we become forgivers, then we are in line to enjoy the benefits of forgiveness.
— Stephen Richards
The heart is where the journey of forgiveness begins.
— Stephen Richards
Just one person. It really honestly just takes one positive person. One positive person can help you. And that can go a long, long way. - Alexis
— Robert Uttaro
As part of the healing process, change your perception of yourself from "victim" to that of "advocate" and "survivor.
— Don Easton
Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life
— Lynette Gould
Being joyous or happy is not something you should feel guilty about.
— Stephen Richards
When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters.
— Stephen Richards
Often it isn't the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.
— S. Kelley Harrell
Writing therapy is my form of healing. Try and detach yourself from painful memories by infusing characters and then stepping back.
— Phil Wohl
I am empowered by self-knowledge, by ownership of my experiences, and by all aspects of myself.
— Maureen Brady
Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.
— Judith Lewis Herman
Anger is the immune system of the soul.
— Stefan Molyneux
Offer yourself forgiveness as a gift. The word 'give' is the basic keyword in the word forgiveness, therefore it relays a meaning therein.
— Stephen Richards
The repulsive actions of the person who abused you do not identify you.
— Tanya R. Liverman
I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame.
— Maureen Brady
Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.
— Stephen Richards
The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.
— Stephen Richards
Scars prove that you're still here. That you can move on. Maybe missing a chunk of yourself, but here, goddamn it, surviving.
— Ash Parsons
When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.
— Stephen Richards
If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.
— Stephen Richards
Overly playing the role of the victim can debar you from accepting responsibility for your actions and emotions.
— Stephen Richards
When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.
— Stephen Richards
The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.
— Stephen Richards
What you feel, you can heal.
— John Gray
An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. - Kirkus Review
— Robert Uttaro
I value and honor the way that my suffering brings me to further search and surrender.
— Maureen Brady
I am a whole person and have the potential to bring together all the different aspects of myself.
— Maureen Brady
If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.
— Cheryl Rainfield
We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday.
— Stephen Richards
All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.
— Stephen Richards
A quick turn around a corner
and my planet becomes sand
on the shore of a dying Universe — S. Kelley Harrell
and my planet becomes sand
on the shore of a dying Universe — S. Kelley Harrell
I sometimes continue to see myself in split ways; it causes me trouble and contributes to a lack of satisfaction with myself.
— Maureen Brady
Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.
— Stephen Richards
Forgiveness doesn't make one person better, or the other guy smaller. Forgiving is just letting go. It's turning back toward being what we really are.
— Edward Fahey
One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.
— Stephen Richards
The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.
— Stephen Richards
Out of all the piles of dirt, garbage, and shit we have been handed, we can grow a patch of daisies.
— Patti Feuereisen
But no matter how much evil I see, I think it's important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.
— Robert Uttaro
He doesn't hurt us anymore."
Of course he doesn't hurt you anymore, I think. You're not defenseless anymore. — Melanie O'Shea
Of course he doesn't hurt you anymore, I think. You're not defenseless anymore. — Melanie O'Shea
Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.
— Stephen Richards
When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.
— Stephen Richards