Jeanne Mcelvaney Quotes

#1. The moment you believe your experience is caused by other people, you are giving them your power.

Jeanne McElvaney

#2. I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

Steve Coogan

#3. Our experience taught us we were alone so we have to break through barriers of shame, fear, and habit to realize the time has come to find help.

Jeanne McElvaney

#4. Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite
everything seems so flat and tasteless.

Helen Rowland

#5. My brain as the engine, with thoughts trailing to the caboose, on a one-track mind we keep going forward.

Anthony Liccione

#6. : Our life may seem consistently out of control or overwhelming because, in avoiding the truths of our childhood, we didn't develop the skills to effectively pilot our lives.

Jeanne McElvaney

#7. You invite a time in the near future when you are no longer building your life on the unknown influences of your childhood sexual abuse.

Jeanne McElvaney

#8. I was survivor of childhood sexual abuse in therapy for dissociated trauma memories.

Jeanne McElvaney

#9. Dissociated trauma memories are not attached to other memories by association. These memories go directly to the unconscious as a biological response separates awareness from consciousness. It's a natural, protective occurrence and it happens without will.

Jeanne McElvaney

#10. I believe forgiving supports us most profoundly when it comes toward the end of our journey, when we intimately know what we are forgiving ~

Jeanne McElvaney

#11. I think most survivors transfer the shame of their experience into their present-day healing and become ashamed of themselves for needing the time and support

Jeanne McElvaney

#12. Each survivor chooses how secrecy is going to fit into their healing. Some share with their immediate family, but not their childhood family and friends.

Jeanne McElvaney

#13. We learned to turn inward to a place where we were able to re-define what was happening to us. In this mental space, we were able to color our experience with childhood reasoning or bury it deeply

Jeanne McElvaney

#14. With the help of your therapist or healing ally, you can identify who makes you feel uneasy, concerned, scared, or defensive.

Jeanne McElvaney

#15. A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You.. the people must give it this soul.

Pope John Paul II

#16. Like most dancers, I love lip stains! We hate gloss because hair gets stuck in it.

Heather Morris

#17. What you do for money you do badly.

Jules Verne

#18. Naomi and Turner, even Ronnie, they all see this is as black and white. Good guys verses bad guys. But I learned a long time ago that the world only functions in shades of gray.

C.M. Stunich

#19. Never mind the End is the Beginning of the new season. Be ready to enter your new season

Paul Gitwaza

#20. About half of us dissociated our abuse at the moment it happened. We lived our days not knowing it happened ... or could happen again. But every survivor has shadows of their experience following them.

Jeanne McElvaney

#21. Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

George R R Martin

#22. Law for the Christian is thus absolute, final, and an aspect of God's creation and a manifestation of His nature. In terms of this, the Christian can hold that right is right, and wrong is wrong, that good and evil are unchanging moral categories rather then relative terms.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#23. You know I don't have any gimmicks really. I don't have any silly things that I say; I don't know, I guess I'm just going to have a really hot dress and a nice pair of shoes and just go out there and look fabulous and try to sing my best.

Katharine McPhee

#24. Anger manages everything badly.

Johannes Stadius

#25. These memories are lost to our conscious and cannot be remembered like an ordinary memory. Sometimes they come to us as flashbacks.

Jeanne McElvaney