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2022You have to be in a certain mindset to want to read Wuthering Heights. For me, that mindset was relentless wind and rain for weeks during a period of social isolation. Wuthering Heights explores the peaks of human emotion better than any other bo ...more "
Understand, for instance, that having a sad thought, even having a continual succession of sad thoughts, is not the same as being a sad person. You can walk through a storm and feel the wind but you know you are not the wind. That is how we
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“How do we inherit, hold, and process things that we don’t remember or didn’t experience ourselves? What is the weight of that which is present but not fully known? Can we really keep secrets from one another, and what do we pass on to the next generation?”
― Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma
― Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma
“I believed that she felt like a Phenomenal Woman as she delivered each line with an audacity and authenticity I had never seen before. I felt like I knew the kind of pain she had to be holding because it was the same pain I held every single day. Where had her shame gone? How had it not seeped into her cells, and if it had, how did she get it out? And if all of it - the pain, shame, and fear - were still there, where did she find space for this thing I saw in her face and heard in her voice? What was this softness? Where did the joy come from?”
― Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
― Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
“In ways that often feel mysterious, emotional material left unprocessed tends to appear and reappear in our lives. The unexamined life repeats itself and reverberates through the generations. The untold stories clamor for reenactment - they insist on being told. That which cannot be consciously identified forces itself into our reality and repeats itself.”
― Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma
― Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma
“Goodbye, by which we say to another— Thanks for offering your life into mine. By Goodbye, we truly mean: Let us be able to say hello again.”
― Call Us What We Carry
― Call Us What We Carry
“She's heard stories of Vietnam vets
who can still feel the tingling of their amputated limbs.
She's wondering how many women are walking around this world
feeling the tingling of their amputated wings,
remembering what it was like to fly, to sing.”
― Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns
who can still feel the tingling of their amputated limbs.
She's wondering how many women are walking around this world
feeling the tingling of their amputated wings,
remembering what it was like to fly, to sing.”
― Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns
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