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A Terrible Kindness

by Jo Browning Wroe

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When The Body Says No

by Gabor Maté

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“However, if I do not “own” my life, my choices and options become very limited. Think how confusing it would be if someone told you to “guard this property diligently, because I will hold you responsible for what happens here,” and then did not tell you the boundaries of the property. Or they did not give you the means with which to protect the property. This would be not only confusing but also potentially dangerous.”
― Henry Cloud, Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life

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“If we would heal, it is essential to begin the painfully incremental task of reversing the biology of belief we adopted very early in life. Whatatever external treatment is administered, the healing agent lies within.”
― Dr. Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

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“Since you cannot get them to change, you must change yourself so that their destructive patterns no longer work on you.”
― Henry Cloud, Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No

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“when people are abused while growing up, they reverse the function of boundaries and keep the bad in and the good out.”
― Henry Cloud, Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life

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“Trauma is so arresting that traumatized people will focus on it compulsively. Unfortunately, the situation that defeated them once will defeat them again and again. Body sensations can serve as a guide to reflect where we are experiencing trauma, and to lead us to our instinctual resources. These resources give us the power to protect ourselves from predators and other hostile forces. Each of us possesses these instinctual resources. Once we learn how to access them we can create our own shields to reflect and heal our traumas.”
― Peter A. Levine, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

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