How Do You Feel Empowered After Child Abuse?
Survivors of child abuse often feel as if they are victims of life. Their victim mentality can limit their success in adulthood, not only professionally but personally as well. While it is true that they were victims in childhood, only child abuse survivors can limit themselves in adulthood. They do this by setting limitations on themselves based upon their abusers’ lies. Here is how to feel empowered after child abuse. Heal from your past. Enter into therapy and work through your childhood issues. You have built your life around your abusers’ lies, believing that you do not deserve more out of life. This could not be farther from the truth. A qualified therapist with experience in counseling survivors of child abuse can help you break through the lies and view your life from an honest perspective. Recognize that your abusers lied to you. You are a precious diamond upon which your abusers heaped mounds of manure. Your abusers held up a mirror and told you that you were the manure pile,
