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        🚫&nbsp; What it means to have experienced childhood sexual abuse
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        <strong>Growing up, did you learn that your body wasn’t really yours? That the rules of safety, privacy, and boundaries didn’t apply to you—especially when you were most vulnerable?</strong>
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        Does this sound familiar?
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        💎 Your relationship with your body remains fractured—alternating between numbness and hypervigilance, never feeling fully at home in your skin.<br><br>
        💎 You automatically downplay your pain growing up—"it wasn't that bad" or "others had it worse."<br><br>
        💎 Your nervous system holds memories your mind tries to forget: safe touches suddenly feeling burdensome, intimacy sparking discomfort instead of connection.<br><br>
        💎 You struggle to define "normal" sexuality—your early blueprint mixed adult behaviors with childhood trauma, leaving permanent distortions.<br><br>
        💎 Your intimacy boundaries swing between fortress walls and open floodgates—the middle ground feels like uncharted territory.<br><br>
        💎 At your core, you believe intimacy is something that needs to be tolerated, like a chore—not really enjoyed.
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        You may have learned to disconnect from your body as a survival mechanism, developing an early warning system that made you hypervigilant to potential threats while simultaneously teaching you to freeze or dissociate when overwhelmed. Your relationship with trust, intimacy, and physical touch became complicated in ways that other people struggle to understand. You carried secrets that felt too big for a child to hold, often blaming yourself for something that was never your fault.
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        You may have developed a fractured relationship with your own body - sometimes feeling completely disconnected from physical sensations, other times experiencing overwhelming anxiety or pain without clear triggers. The abuse taught your nervous system that intimacy and danger could coexist, making adult relationships feel like navigating a minefield where love and fear became tragically intertwined.
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        💔&nbsp; The Core Wound
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        "You learned that your body wasn't truly yours, that the people meant to protect you could also harm you, and that love and violation could somehow exist in the same space, leaving you forever questioning your own perceptions and worth."
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Tools & Learning

🚫9 Ways Molestation Trauma Affects Your Relationships

Body That Learned to Leave

Body That Remembers What You Forgot

Hypnotized to Believe You're Damaged Goods

Loyal to Your Abusers

Sex as Violence

The Advocate

The Invisible Child

The Radar Always On

The Secrets Keeper