Overcoming abuse doesn't just happen, It takes positive steps every day. Let today be the day you start to move forward.

— Assunta Harris

Psychological and emotional wellness is an ongoing process for everyone.

— C. Kennedy

Some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy. They wonder why others often fail to treat them with respect--not realizing that they have signalled others that it is not necessary to treat them with respect.

— Nathaniel Branden

Sometimes we self-sabotage just when things seem to be going smoothly. Perhaps this is a way to express our fear about whether it is okay for us to have a better life. We are bound to feel anxious as we leave behind old notions of our unworthiness. The challenge is not to be fearless, but to develop strategies of acknowledging our fears and finding out how we can allay them.

— Maureen Brady

Staying in an abusive relationship for the fear of public judgment is like allowing to be buried alive to impress a coffin maker

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

Staying in a relationship with someone who doesn't love him/herself, is a direct reflection of how much you love and value yourself.

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

There are tons of kids out there who endure chronic abuse and suffer in silence. They can’t trust anyone, they can’t tell anyone, and they have no idea how to get away from it.

— C. Kennedy

There is a moment in our healing journey when our denial crumbles; we realize our experience, and it's continued effects on us won't "just go away". That's our breakthrough moment. It's the sun coming out to warm the seeds of hope so they can grow our personal garden of empowerment.

— Jeanne McElvaney

There was a moment of hesitation in which Joe looked into her eyes, and she looked back without flinching. Many a time, he had been at the same game with her, and she had always crumbled, bowing to his will. Now, he must have realized he was looking into the eyes of a stranger. She was someone he could not recognize, a foreigner inhabiting the body of that old Clearly, the girl he had abused, intimidated, and broken. Clearly decided then and there she would no longer cower before him. It was almost as if she were daring him to strike her in their unspoken exchange.

— Tracy Winegar

To forget and to repress would be a good solution if there were no more to it than that. But repressed pain blocks emotional life and leads to physical symptoms. And the worst thing is that although the feelings of the abused child have been silenced at the point of origin, that is, in the presence of those who caused the pain, they find their voice when the battered child has children of his own.

— Alice Miller