Healing from Abuse Takes Time + Effort AND It's 100% Achievable
It feels like a marathon … but, I promise: You’ll reach the finish line!
Healing from abuse is a journey, often a long journey. It requires time, effort, and deep commitment, but here’s the truth: you CAN heal. No matter how broken or lost you may feel right now, your future is not defined by what your abuser has done. You are capable of stepping into peace, joy, and emotional freedom.
Why Healing Takes Time
Abuse rewires your nervous system, shakes your sense of self, and instills patterns of survival that don’t disappear overnight. Recovery is a layered process of unlearning abusive conditioning, rebuilding self-trust, and creating new, healthy thought patterns. It’s a matter of becoming. And that takes time.
The Effort is Worth It
Healing isn’t passive. It involves:
Intentional self-care: Choosing rest, nourishment, and practices that restore your body and mind.
Support: Whether through coaching, friends, family or clergy, appropriate support promotes healing.
Reclaiming identity: Discovering who you are outside of abuse takes courage, but it is the key to freedom.
Becoming boundaried: Learning to say “no” and recognizing red flags prevents repeated cycles of harm.
Hope is Real: You Can Heal!
Even if you’ve been told that you’re broken beyond repair, that’s a lie. Healing is possible, no matter how much hurt and pain have taken place. You won’t always feel stuck. You won’t always feel afraid.
Every step you take toward healing—no matter how small—is a step toward the life you deserve. Hold on. Keep going. Freedom is on the other side.
xo, Denalee