{"id":12775,"date":"2020-11-28T10:42:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T17:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/btsadv.wpengine.com\/?p=12775"},"modified":"2020-12-23T23:14:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T06:14:59","slug":"creating-stability-from-the-inside-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakthesilencedv.org\/?p=12775","title":{"rendered":"Stability Created from the Inside Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Leaving abusive relationships may not immediately equate to true healing or good mental health.\u00a0<\/span>True healing and stability occurs from the inside out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lack of Stability After Abuse<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to Ham-Rowbottom et al. (2005), up to 75% of women receiving emergency or transitional living shelter experience depression, trauma, and low life satisfaction after leaving their abuser; they continue to suffer from depression up to 6 months after leaving such shelters (Campbell et al. 1995, 2002; and Houskamp and Foy <\/span>1991<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, domestic violence survivors go on to pursue fulfilling, successful lives. They go on to find stability. Take a look at some of the profiles of our amazing BTSADV volunteers, who are also survivors; they are living proof that healing is within all victims\u2019 reach. In fact, they are not survivors; they are thrivers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing from Survivor to Thriver\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In her book <\/span>From Victim to Survivor to Thriver<\/span><\/i>, Barbara Whitfield <\/a>argues that, after leaving their abusive relationship, individuals go through 3 stages – \u201cvictim,\u201d \u201csurvivor\u201d, and \u201cthriver\u201d – each being characterized by specific styles of thinking about self, others, and the world (Whitfield 2003).<\/span> The journey to stability progresses through each stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victim Stage\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Individuals in the \u201cvictim\u201d stage may experience:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n