Lori Johnstone

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Klara and the Sun

by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)

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Lori’s Quotes

“What I wanted, what I felt owed, was some clear place in the hierarchy of those he loved.”
― Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Small Fry

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“Many abandoned children enter adulthood feeling that the world is a dangerous place where they are ill-equipped to defend themselves”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

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“I pray that I may be graced with the cleansing waters of forgiveness. I pray that I may relate to forgiveness in a beneficial and non-grasping way. Let me know who to forgive and be with, who to forgive and avoid, and who I do not need to forgive. Let me learn to forgive others by becoming more forgiving of myself.”
― Pete Walker, The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame

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“You wonder why I'm so uptight about entitle white culture? It's not just that I live here half the time and see real poverty. It's not just the snack baskets in first class. It's because entitled white culture encourages those inside it to never look outside their own fucking worlds. We blow everything off because we're so concerned with looking good we can't just feel.”
― A.S. King, Dig.

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“Many psychologists use the term existential to describe the fact that all human beings are subject to painful events. These are the normal recurring afflictions that everyone suffers from time to time. Horrible world events, difficult choices, illnesses and periodic feelings go abject loneliness are common examples of existential pain. Existential calamities can be especially triggering for survivors, because we typically have so much family-of-origin calamity for them to trigger us into reliving.”
― Pete Walker , Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

tags: cptsd, existential-triggers, family, family-dysfunction, lonliness, survivors, trigger, triggers

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