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yeah this mad triggering 😭 not obeying and trusting ur spiritual leader youth pastor grown man this gonna be a slower read than the body keep the score. would’ve been a helpful resource when writing my final paper in college. would’ve made me lose my mind fr

“I don’t like it when Jesus is used like a dead relative to justify whatever the speaker was going to do anyway” (168).

“Our talents, our desires, our hopes and dreams, and what we need to be happy are as unique as our fingerprints” (161).

“Pleasure, fully experienced and freely savored, is quite the antidote to shame” (145).

“The preservation of the institution of a relationship cannot be prioritized over the actual people that make it” (129).

“because existence is not a matter of opinion” (115).

On shame - “If you teach someone to say no… far safer to get them to say nothing at all” (63).

Just a glutton for punishment reading this after The Handmaid’s Tale.