Lucia Osborne-Crowley

“So many women and non-binary people told me a similar story: they had people in their lives that they looked up to, who they thought were beautiful and assured and real, but they couldn't see that they themselves had qualities worthy of that admiration too; they could only see their own qualities in a positive light when they saw them reflected in someone else.”
― Lucia Osborne-Crowley, My Body Keeps Your Secrets

“Every story in this book is about how we learned the value of the false self, how we unlearned it, and the price we paid trying to attain it.
As the false self is formed, Bradshaw says, the authentic self goes into hiding. The false self is a masterpiece.
Because the false self is an act of overcompensation for a part of us we believe to be damaged”
― Lucia Osborne-Crowley, My Body Keeps Your Secrets