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When a child is abused or neglected in any way, the message attached to those actions undermines the self-esteem of that child. The abusive and neglectful actions of others communicated to me that I was not “worth the effort” to protect, to be respected etc. If I complained in any way, my complaints were invalidated until I stopped complaining. Pretty soon I believed that I wasn’t worth the effort. It was in realizing that those messages were never about me that I was able to recover my self-esteem. Darlene Ouimet
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 17:10:00 +0000

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