Mandy’s Reviews > We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions > Status Update

Jealous - that is how women feel when another woman goes off the menu and she seems to have this delicious, creative life in front of her.

Trauma in family systems can look like family traits.

They’re acting as if the danger is around the corner, even when they’re in relative safety. [panic attacks]

There was a study done in the Netherlands which found that the DNA in descendants of famine survivors reflected the trauma of famine even though that trauma never happened to them. Their body remembered something they never experienced.

But I don’t want to have to excel to be okay anymore.

My whole life, I was trying to win over people’s affection to somehow prove that I was worthy and good enough.

The way we show up in our relationships today is a reflection of the way our caregivers showed up for us.

“It’s so hard to tell what part of our personality is a coping mechanism that was formed years ago and what’s our actual personality.”

“All I really wanted was love, full acceptance, and attention…”