It is beyond disheartening that it’s believed that 90% of sexual abuse victims never say a word about their abuse to anyone. According to NAASCA.org, 50-60 million American adults have been sexually abused in their childhood.

Unfortunately, the emotional trauma inflicted upon us as children doesn’t magically disappear. If you or someone you know has been a victim of childhood abuse, or any kind of abuse, our hearts are with you. If you are here, hopefully it means that you are on a journey seeking healing and ready to claim your power.

Anne Heche is an Emmy Award winning actress that has been in more movies that we can name such as Donnie Brasco, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and even Dancing with the Stars! She’s brave, she’s bold, and so beautiful. She’s also a woman that learned to stand up and tell her truth, live her truth and take back her power from the abusive and traumatic childhood she experienced.

In the conversation with Lisa, Anne shares the wisdom and hard lessons she’s learned from getting up and taking responsibility and taking action on the things that gave her the power she needed to reclaim her life and start loving herself. Her open, raw, powerful display of what it means to find your worth, love hard, and release the pain that was pushed on her at a young age may be the thing to hear today.

Anne’s mantra: You are not your abuse

Anne’s Power Questions to Get to the Other Side:
Am I worthy of taking responsibility for myself?
Do I value me enough to take care of me today?

SHOW NOTES:

Rejecting Self | How Anne found power of telling her truth through her father [1:02]
Covered Reality | Anne explains the trap of going with what you know and telling truth [3:44]
Seeing A New Path | Anne reveals how she thought her way out of the lies and abuse [6:38]
First Step in Fear | Anne on how she took action and activated her power in self-love [10:17]
Demonstrating Love | Why defining what love looks like for different people is needed [13:13]
Being Validated | Anne on how she decided to show up after coming out in her truth [16:18]
Power Over Abuse | Anne’s secret to taking power over the abuse you experienced [22:06]
Power Questions | Anne’s two powerful questions to get you to the other side of abuse [27:28]

QUOTES:

“When you look back at somebody’s life, it makes absolutely 100% sense how they are and who they become cause you can look at their journey…” [3:10]

“Go with what you know is habit, and also going with what you know has covered your reality so you become whatever it is that you’ve had to manufacture to make what you know make any sense at all.” [3:54]

“Activating our curiosity enough to pause before hating ourselves so much that we dive deeper into our insecurities…” [17:02]

“I asked myself if I really didn't commit to the truth, or if I was a lying sack of shit and wanted to join the crowd.” [20:06]

“You have to get 100% clear on your story about what happened and who belongs to the pain of it and who belongs to the heart of it and the love of it, [...] You are the heart and the abuse belongs to somebody.” [23:02]

“Responsibility is about beginning the story in the morning with yourself, and asking yourself if you want to take responsibility for where you want to be…” [26:06]

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