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Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

by Martin E.P. Seligman

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Feb 16, 2012 11:16AM

“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

tags: abuse, dark-secrets, knowing-oneself, not-knowing, repression, secrets, subconscious, suppression, survivors, trauma-memory, traumatized, unconscious

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“I write for those that have no voice, for the silent ones who've been damaged beyond repair; I write for the broken child within me...”
― Nitya Prakash

tags: broken, child, why-i-write

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“It is the touch of a lover's arms that I so desperately crave, not the memories of a love no longer mine.”
― D.S. Mixell

tags: crave, desperate, hold, hug, hunger, lost-love, love, lover, memory, touch, wanting

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“They're going to say I lost my mind they won't know I'm becoming more myself than I've ever been.”
― Nitya Prakash

tags: becoming, lost, myself

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“If your parents’ faces never lit up when they looked at you, it’s hard to know what it feels like to be loved and cherished. If you come from an incomprehensible world filled with secrecy and fear, it’s almost impossible to find the words to express what you have endured. If you grew up unwanted and ignored, it is a major challenge to develop a visceral sense of agency and self-worth.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma