Apology reminds us that each person (including ourselves) deserves to be respected and treated fairly..

Positive and powerful: Sometimes people won't like me, and it's okay. Positive and powerful: I like me, and that's all that matters. Positive and pow….

The more you face the truth, the angrier you will probably become. You have a right to be angry about being sexually abused. You have a right to be a….

Let others know when they have hurt or angered you. By not speaking up when someone insults or mistreats you, you are inadvertently giving permission….

Instead of envying what others have, decide what YOU want out of life and focus on achieving it..

Strong Women never put their safety or their self-esteem aside to please someone else or to keep a man. If someone acts inappropriately or abusively ….

Accepting that your imperfections and so-called negative attributes are part of what makes you unique will help you to stop continually trying to be ….

With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable ….

What other people think of us usually has very little to do with who we are. It has a lot more to do with the other individuals' issues-their prejudi….

It is far more important to know myself and take care of myself than it is to look good to others..

For too long we have been protecting the ones who have hurt us by minimizing our trauma and deprivation. It's time to stop protecting them and start ….

Critical words to a child are as painful and damaging as being physically hit. They are verbal slaps in the face. Usually, critical words are accompa….

Survivors have a difficult time expressing their feelings. They are more accustomed to minimizing their pain and hiding how they really feel, both fr….

You have the right to your own ideas and opinions, to make your own decisions, and to have things go your way at times. Stand up for those rights..

Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination ….

There are many types of emotional abuse but most is done in an attempt to control or subjugate another person. Emotional abuse is like brainwashing i….

When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is the ins….