One of the hardest things for traumatized people is to confront their shame about the way they behaved during a traumatic episode, whether it is objectively warranted (as in the commission of atrocities) or not (as in the case of a child
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“I imagined I must not speak, in order to preserve, impossibly, my chance to speak. I nearly wretched on the feelings I forced myself to swallow.”
― Sealed: An Unexpected Journey into the Heart of Grace
― Sealed: An Unexpected Journey into the Heart of Grace

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