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“Perhaps the most influential is the family myth of dire consequences, in which we feel that we are absolutely indispensable for everything in the church to work; if we don’t do our job, everything will fall”
― Edward P. Wimberly, Recalling Our Own Stories: Spiritual Renewal for Religious Caregivers

“If our personal myths are healthy and we feel positive about ourselves, then our interactions and experiences with others are enhanced. The reverse is also true. Those of us who believe we are called and who have good self-esteem generally treat hostility received from others as part of the job, and we do not take criticism personally. Those of us who have negative convictions about ourselves often take criticism as an attack upon ourselves, and we experience a deflation of our self-esteem. Good personal myths help us deal positively with the potential for self-sabotage; negative myths make us more vulnerable.”
― Edward P. Wimberly, Recalling Our Own Stories: Spiritual Renewal for Religious Caregivers