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“A definitive symptom of childhood trauma is trying to get a difficult person to be good to us.”
― Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves—and How to Find Our Way Back
― Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves—and How to Find Our Way Back
“I appreciate the ways others love me, no matter how limited. I am letting go of expecting - or demanding - that they love me exactly as I want them to. At the same time, I can always ask for the kind of love that I long for.”
― How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
― How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
“Being able to alter the trajectory of your emotional response by speeding it up, slowing it down, or changing its intensity is called emotion regulation.”
― Shift: Managing Your Emotions--So They Don't Manage You
― Shift: Managing Your Emotions--So They Don't Manage You
“Sometimes we put more value in predicting and controlling than in having peace of mind.”
― Love Is Letting Go of Fear
― Love Is Letting Go of Fear
“There is a connection between freedom and self-confidence: When you are kept from expressing your deepest needs and wishes, you lose trust in their validity and in your own judgement. You survive by finding out the rules and following them, thus hiding what you really want. You make it your purpose in life to please others rather than to affirm yourself.”
― How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
― How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
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