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J. R. R. Tolkien • The Lord of the Rings: The classic fantasy masterpiece
In order to overcome trauma people need to feel safe enough to open up their hearts and minds to others and become engaged with new possibilities. This can only be done if trauma survivors, and their communities, are helped to confront and confess the reality of what has happened and are helped to feel safe again. In many non-Western cultures this... See more
Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. • The Body Keeps The Score
It was in vain to represent to her that some conveniences, tea perhaps included, resulted from this objectionable practice.
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
Illegibility was a political act.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Toxic shame is no longer an emotion that signals our limits; it is a state of being, a core identity.
John Bradshaw • Healing the Shame That Binds You
For some of us, the fear of intimacy overpowers the desire for it. It feels safer to be alone or in relationships where we are “unemotionally involved” than it does to be emotionally vulnerable, close, and loving. I understand that. In spite of the range of needs and wants that go unmet when we don’t love, it may feel safer to not love. We don’t
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