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the disappointing truth is that no one will treat you any better than you’re treating yourself.
Katherine Woodward Thomas • Calling in "The One" Revised and Expanded: 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life
the Self says no to impulsive parts firmly but from a place of love and patience, in just the same way an ideal parent would.
Ph.D. Richard Schwartz • No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
become that Good Mother to their own inner child, the feeling of being unmothered can be replaced by a feeling of being well mothered. You can feel loved, supported, and cared for.
Jasmin Lee Cori MS LPC • The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed
She is what I call the Teaching Mommy, meaning that she is there to model this, to show your adult self how to do it.
Jasmin Lee Cori MS LPC • The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed
It’s called the “internalized parent,”
Katherine Woodward Thomas • Calling in "The One" Revised and Expanded: 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life
When we are unable to accept our children, it’s because they open up old wounds in us, threatening some ego-attachment we are still holding onto. Unless we address why we can’t embrace our children for precisely who they are, we will forever either seek to mold, control, and dominate them—or we will allow ourselves to be dominated by them.
His Holiness The Dalai Lama • The Conscious Parent
I know that every woman has an incredible inner mentor inside of her, a voice that has the just-right-for-her answers at every turn. She simply needs to learn how to discover this voice and to be reminded to access it regularly, until that becomes her habitual way of doing things.
Tara Mohr • Playing Big
To shift to a more effective way of relating to our children, we must be willing to face and resolve issues in ourselves that stem from the way we were parented.