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

- Beverly Engel

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 …

- Beverly Engel

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…

- Beverly Engel

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…

- Beverly Engel

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…

- Beverly Engel

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

- Beverly Engel

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

- Beverly Engel

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…

- Beverly Engel

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 …

- Beverly Engel