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“What I failed to realize at the time is that when we try to resist feeling something painful, we often protract the very pain we’re trying to avoid.”
― It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
― It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
“Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.”
― My Heart and Other Black Holes
― My Heart and Other Black Holes
“Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label until they are rendered mute or preferably unheard.”
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“The emotions, traits, and behaviors we reject in our parents will likely live on in us. It’s our unconscious way of loving them, a way to bring them back into our lives.”
― It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
― It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
“This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.”
― Say What You Will
― Say What You Will
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