The Victim Mentality

"I feel like maybe the biggest shift on you is just the safety that you have in your own mind with yourself," she says. "We can be a victim one time to a circumstance but then we can then re-victimize ourselves every single day by choosing to believe whatever it is that that circumstance brought up or whatever somebody said about us or to us We can use that and I found in my own life that it was a protective measure that I put into my way of thinking so even though it was incredibly painful it did give me an excuse to not push into like scary places"