This Week's FSA Recovery Affirmation

Validating our experience of Family Scapegoating Abuse and its effects

This week we’ll be focusing on not falling into the trap of needing others to validate our painful experiences of Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA).

As adult survivors of FSA, it is understandable that we would want others to validate and acknowledge how being in the ‘scapegoat’ role in our family has impacted us. Sadly, such validation is hard to come by, given society’s resistance to acknowledging that family members can behave abusively toward each other in ways that are not always visible to the eye and obvious.

Over time, we learn that we don’t need external validation regarding what we have experienced within our family system because the truth of our journey is inherent in our own lived reality.