It was when I finally refused to pretend that everything was okay and I validated that what happened to me was wrong NO MATTER if I was believed or not, no matter if I was disapproved of or not, that was when I recovered. I validated me, I listened to me, I heard me, I rejected their definition of me and embraced the truth ~ It was then and only then that I found the freedom and wholeness that I had searched for my whole life. ~ Darlene Ouimet