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“The family drama may look and sound different from generation to generation, but all toxic patterns are remarkably similar in their outcome: pain and suffering.”
― Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
― Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
“The “family secret” is a further burden for abused children. By not talking about the abuse, the battered child cuts off any hope of emotional help.”
― Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
― Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
“Years later, the trauma of those experiences continued to haunt me. Most Japanese Americans from my parents' generation didn't like to talk about the internment with their children. As with many traumatic experiences, they were anguished by their memories and haunted by shame for something that wasn't their fault. Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators but they don't carry it the way the victims do.”
― They Called Us Enemy
― They Called Us Enemy
“In this way she perpetuated the pain she had experienced as a child. Not unexpectedly, her enormous accumulated rage had to find a way out, but since she was afraid to express it directly, her body and her moods expressed it for her: in the form of headaches, a knotted-up stomach, and depression.”
― Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
― Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
“Carol Dweck, a prominent Stanford psychologist, has found that people who believe their intelligence is fixed and unchanging have a very difficult time learning. The moment these people experience any form of difficulty or negative feedback, they mentally break and give up. Conversely, people who believe their intelligence is fluid and malleable are far more likely to grow and change. They are clay that can be transformed through experience, especially challenging and new experiences.”
― Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success
― Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success
Dianne’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Dianne’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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41 friends
642 books
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33 friends
723 books
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41 friends
550 books
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151 friends
335 books
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35 friends
24 books
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819 friends
93 books
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48 friends
35 books
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63 friends
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