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During school age, the bright, shame-based child will attempt to develop inhuman ego defenses or defending scripts, such as perfectionism, blaming, criticizing, righteousness or being judgmental.
John Bradshaw • Healing the Shame That Binds You
But . . . if the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning. I would look around at the bare little cell and wonder what conceivable victory could come from a place like this.
John Sherrill • The Hiding Place
Trauma stories lessen the isolation of trauma, and they provide an explanation for why people suffer the way they do.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century (Updated, Annotated): Eleven Biographies in One Volume
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Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings.
Melody Beattie • The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency (Hazelden Meditation Series)
The rage of the disesteemed is personally fruitless, but it is also absolutely inevitable; this rage, so generally discounted, so little understood even among the people whose daily bread it is, is one of the things that makes history. Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence and is
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