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"The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you."
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"The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured."
"Even if things were broken right now. Sometimes it was the cracks that let the light in."
"I mean, okay, let's say we're all going to get better. Let's just pretend we will. Fine. Where are we going to go after we get better? What are we going to do with all of our newfound healthy behaviors? Back out into the world that screwed us up and screwed us over. This does not sound promising."
"You are NOT an abuse survivor or victim. Leave your labels elsewhere because they are no longer serving you."
"There is a saying used in twelve - step programs and in most treatment centers that 'Relapse is part of recovery.' It's another dangerous slogan that is based on a myth, and it only gives people permission to relapse because that think that when they do, they are on the road to recovery."
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"Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand."
"The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain for isn't this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people."
"Children naturally believe without question and absorb knowledge at an incredible rate; since there is no other frame of reference; they believe their parental reality, true or false."
"When this low self-worth is hidden, one can understand why the person becomes hypersensitive to the opinions of others and has a great deal of difficulty accepting criticism no matter how warranted or gently said."
"You did not invent these family habits. Your family is like mine, for thousands and thousands of years our families have embraced a dysfunctional lifestyle, passing these habits as gospel on to subsequent generations. This was not done out of malice, spite, or hate, but what they knew best. As ineffective as these habits are, you never stopped to consider another way of loving."
"A spiritual hell I lived in hating the God of love and knowing the god I served, hated me!"
"We can be safe and live with other defined truths exemplified by a capital 'T or we can change and with our limited time experience truth with a small 't, seeking our own understanding, which can change with new awareness."
"Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind."
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