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“Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain.
To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the ‘healing feeling.’
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To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the ‘healing feeling.’
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“Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.”
― The Art of Power
― The Art of Power
“Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.”
― Healing the Shame that Binds You
― Healing the Shame that Binds You
“Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.”
― Bradshaw on the Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem
― Bradshaw on the Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem
“True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.”
― Healing the Shame that Binds You
― Healing the Shame that Binds You
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