Lily
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“In a healthy relationship, vulnerability is wonderful. It leads to increased intimacy and closer bonds. When a healthy person realizes that he or she hurt you, they feel remorse and they make amends. It’s safe to be honest. In an abusive system, vulnerability is dangerous. It’s considered a weakness, which acts as an invitation for more mistreatment. Abusive people feel a surge of power when they discover a weakness. They exploit it, using it to gain more power. Crying or complaining confirms that they’ve poked you in the right spot.”
― The Rescued Soul: The Writing Journey for the Healing of Incest and Family Betrayal
― The Rescued Soul: The Writing Journey for the Healing of Incest and Family Betrayal
“It takes solidarity and generosity of spirit to build a society in which anyone can feel safe. Empathy can be hard to find, especially for people who look or sound different, or believe different things to us. But when we allow ourselves to be pitted against each other, and to be ruled by the meaner emotions, we dig our own graves alongside those of the people we abandon. It's only when we understand our essential commonality that we can protect ourselves: not as individual humans, but as members of an indivisible whole.”
― The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope
― The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope
“I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.”
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“If you walked away from a
toxic, negative, abusive,
one-sided, dead-end
low vibrational
relationship or friendship
— you won.”
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toxic, negative, abusive,
one-sided, dead-end
low vibrational
relationship or friendship
— you won.”
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“OK,’ they say: ‘things have been bad. They may be bad again; they may not. In the meantime, let’s take heart with the day. Let’s begin again and see what happens.”
― The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul
― The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul
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