Poorvi Agarwal

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Dani Shapiro
“Bessel van der Kolk: “The nature of trauma is that you have no recollection of it as a story.”
Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

Dani Shapiro
“I tell my students, who are concerned with the question of betrayal, that when it comes to memoir, there is no such thing as absolute truth—only the truth that is singularly their own. I say this not to release them from responsibility but to illuminate the subjectivity of our inner lives. One person's experience is not another's.”
Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

Dani Shapiro
“After listening to my entire story, he quietly said: "You can say, "This is impossible, terrible.' Or you can say, 'This is beautiful, wonderful.' You can imagine that you're in exile. Or you can imagine that you have more than one home.”
Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

Lori Gottlieb
“Above all, I didn't want to fall into the trap that Buddhists call idiot compassion - an apt phrase, given John's worldview. In idiot compassion, you avoid rocking the boat to spare people's feelings, even though the boat needs rocking and your compassion ends up being more harmful than your honesty. People do this with teenagers, spouses, addicts, even themselves. Its opposite is wise compassion, which means caring about the person but also giving him or her a loving truth bomb when needed.”
Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Lori Gottlieb
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

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