Lory Hess’s Reviews > The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture > Status Update

Healing, in a sense, is about unlearning the notion that we need to protect ourselves from our own pain. Ch 26

I have never treated or interviewed anyone with chronic physical illness or mental affliction who could recal sharing unhappy feelings openly and freely, without restraint, with their caregivers or any trusted adult." Ch 30