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Imagine that you are watching a quietly flowing brook with large leaves on it floating by. Each thought that comes into your mind, place it on a leaf and watch it float downstream. If it reappears, that is fine—just put the second version on a leaf too. The goal is to stay by the stream, watching your thoughts. If you discover you’ve stopped doing
... See moreSteven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
His tragedy was just one among dozens. Hundreds. Thousands. By the time the cascade had run all the way out, maybe millions. When death grew that large, it stopped meaning anything.
James S. A. Corey • Caliban's War (The Expanse Book 2)
These perpetrator parts would do the same thing in their psyches to their own vulnerable, childlike parts. This process—in which protectors in one generation take on the perpetrator burdens of their parents while they were being abused by those parents—is one way that legacy burdens are transferred.
Ph.D. Richard Schwartz • No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
In our fear and anxiety, we often try to control our environment to feel safe.
Mark Wolynn • It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
Our task is to recognize when we have thoughts, emotions or physical responses that are destructive, negative or harmful—and then do something about it.
Francine Shapiro • Getting Past Your Past
Anything that you link to your self-worth can give rise to shame.
Dr Julie Smith • Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: The Sunday Times bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold
I was struck by how the deprivations that people experience can lead to eccentric kinds of compensation—like the hoarding syndrome of some of the poor.
Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
One situation in which pathological bereavement could occur, I read repeatedly, was that in which the survivor and the deceased had been unusually dependent on one another. “Was the bereaved actually very dependent upon the deceased person for pleasure, support, or esteem?”
Joan Didion • The Year of Magical Thinking (Vintage International)
Two brain systems are relevant for the mental processing of trauma: those dealing with emotional intensity and context.