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Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone…

-Asa Don Brown

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ChildhoodPsychologistPsychology
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Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework…

-Asa Don Brown

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ChildhoodPsychologistPsychology
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Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific…

-Asa Don Brown

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ChildhoodPsychologistPsychology
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Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.

-Asa Don Brown

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Capella-UniversityChildhood-TraumaLaughter
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It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I’d imagined for myself twenty years earlier, and the reality…it was painful to understand that the cushion of exceptionality invoked by the drug had made me oblivious to my inertia. And it was painful to have to define myself again, at an age...

-Ann Marlowe

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We’ve been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We’ll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.

-Bucky Sinister

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Recovery
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From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art – a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

-Criss Jami

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ArtArtistsHuman-Nature
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Rigid traditions capture soulsprisons of spiritual thoughtman’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.

-David W. Earle

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BeliefChangeRecovery
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Change is threatening to the status quo.

-David W. Earle

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ChangeDysfunctionLove
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Always allow your childlike wonder, joy, gratitude, love and laughter to serve as your own soul’s tool kit for life’s most difficult challenges.

-Jan Porter

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Her eyes are frosty blue, made all the more seductive by her fair skin. Karly, Annabelle, now Layna. The road to recovery is heavily littered with cross-addiction.

-Justin Donner

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AddictionRecoverySex-Addiction
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In the past, my brain could only compute perfection or failure—nothing in between. So words like competent, acceptable, satisfactory, and good enough fell into the failure category. Even above average meant failure if I received an 88 out of 100 percent on an exam, I felt that I failed. The fact is most things in...

-Jenni Schaefer

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Eating-DisorderFoodGood-Enough
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In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.

-Laurie Matthew

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I have suffered pains and torture of all natures. I have heard many say, “I am a survivor.” I am not in a boat in a sea of torture awaiting to be rescued. I am a Conqueror, I am a Victor…I am one with myself.I AM FREE!

-Stanley Victor

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AffirmationsLifeMental-Illness
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In truth, Serenus, I have for a long time been silently asking myself to what I should liken such a condition of mind, and I can find nothing that so closely approaches it as the state of those who, after being released from a long and serious illness, are sometimes touched with fits of fever...

-Seneca

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AftermathRecoverySimons-Rock
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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

-Aberjhani

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I felt like I was being carried over the threshold of a sisterhood of loss. I knew I was not walking alone, and that eventually I would bob back up to the surface of the deep, because the women around me showed me what healing looks like.

-Anna White

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BereavementDepressionGrief
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I want to feel calm and at ease. Like someone who lives in Half Moon Bay, California, and makes hummus from scratch. Instead, I feel like I’m a contestant on some awful supermarket game show where I’ve got sixty seconds to hurl my shopping cart down the aisles, piling it with as much as possible...

-Augusten Burroughs

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AlcoholismAnxietyLife-With-Anxiety
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Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?

-Dan Wells

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RecoveryTrauma
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The more judgmental a person is the sadder they are.

-David W. Earle

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ChangeDysfunctionalHappiness
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Honoring your word is the fiber from which trust is built.

-David W. Earle

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ChaosDysfunctionalDysfunctional-Families
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Self-preservation isn’t worth it if you can’t live with the self you’re preserving.

-David Levithan

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He still heard his mother’s voice–“Davey”–rise like whisper-dust from unseen corners in the house, but it was no longer the only voice he heard. His ears were also filled with the voices of others–his father and Primrose and Refrigerator John and his grandmother. Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not...

-Jerry Spinelli

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I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed” (17)

-Jenni Schaefer

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DifferencesEating-DisorderRecovery
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One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence.

-Lynn Crilly

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Eating-DisordersMythsRecovery
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Spurred by Amy’s death I’ve tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.

-Russell Brand

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AlcoholismAmy-WinehouseDrug-Addiction
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Always love, always encourage, and never let despair get in the way.

-Super Star

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AddictionInspirationalMotivational
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There had been a subtle realignment of the spheres. The world was somehow a place I could endure again. If life was a grey corridor lined with doors, it was now within my power to open some of them.

-Alexis Hall

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Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against others, self-harm, and suicide attempts.

-Alison Miller

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Body-MemoriesCuttingDdnos
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Ritual Abuse usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The sexual abuse is usually painful,humiliating, intended as a means of gaining dominance over the victim.The psychological abuse is devastating and involves the use of ritual indoctrination. It includes mind control techniques which...

-Chrystine Oksana

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AbuseAbuse-Of-PowerCult
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Our minds have a great capacity for deception. This does not mean we are necessarily dishonest but if we are not careful, when our brains do not have answers, our minds will create them.

-David W. Earle

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ChangeDeceptionRecovery
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Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.

-David W. Earle

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Sometimes I struggle. Sometimes I falter. Sometimes I live in gray. But always I remember the yarrow you’ve grown in the spaces of my rib cage. I now love with roses from my heart, with lilacs from my mouth.

-Elijah Noble

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FlowerHopeLove
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No matter how dark the night may get, your light will never burn out.

-Jeanette LeBlanc

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An intensely gripping narrative…expertly crafted and totally addictive…a must read!

-Maggie Reese

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There are a lot of times the heart burrows deeper, goes tunnelling into itself for reasons only the heart itself seems to know.They are times of isolation, of hibernation, sometimes of desolation. There is a bareness that spreads out over the interior landscape of the self, a bareness like tundra, with no sign of life...

-Marya Hornbacher

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We are not the only ones affected by our recovery. The spiritual awakening heals the world one person at a time.

-Marta Mrotek

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The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up–but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us.

-Paulo Coelho

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One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn’t a clue. A day is a fuckin’ eternity

-Roddy Doyle

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Never has nostalgia held stronger sway; never has the belief in the redemptive possibilities of the future seemed so laughable.

-Ann Marlowe

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They got drunk and high on a regular basis, but this is a vestige of youth that you either quit while you’re young or you become an addict if you don’t die. If you are the Old Guy In The Punk House, move out. You have a substance abuse problem.

-Bucky Sinister

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The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn’t sin but wants to sin.

-Criss Jami

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DesireHeartMan
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For example, I can doubt that 2 + 2 = 4; however, my doubting does not change the equation. When I test out that formula and find that it is true, then that becomes my reality. How can anything become real until it is tested in the crucible of doubt?

-David W. Earle

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ChangeDoubtRecovery
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A spiritual hell I lived in … hating the God of love and knowing the god I served … hated me!

-David W. Earle

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AddictionChangePain
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It’s about needing to feel loved and comforted but feeling unworthy of real love and comfort. It’s about hating having needs and desires. For some of us, needs make us feel greedy and selfish. For some of us, having needs means we can easily get hurt if those needs are not met. For some of...

-Emma McEvoy

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Even those who drink until blacking out, those who beat women, are not the exception, hopefully not the norm, trapped somewhere in society in a dark place nobody wants to talk about.

-Justin Donner

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AddictionDomestic-ViolenceRecovery
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Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I’m actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

-Jenni Schaefer

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Eating-DisorderFeelingsRecovery
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Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors’ lives and experience and are often unsupported themselves. Rather than being supported, workers are often ridiculed, castigated or accused of being gullible or of giving the survivor false memories. Many workers work in isolation and a climate...

-Laurie Matthew

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Abuse-Sexual-AbuseChild-AbuseChildabuse
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We don’t get to choose the things that happen to us in life. What we can choose is how to react to them, how we deal with them, and how we move on.

-Sarah Winter

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DeathGriefLife
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Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.

-Ziad K.

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