Your Natural Vitality Disturbed Your Caretakers or Peers This happened if one or both of your parents were: adherents of a rigid religious tradition that viewed various natural expressions as sinful; afraid to let you grow up and leave them because of being highly dependent on you; survivors of sexual or physical abuse such that any sexuality or aggression in you was threatening; violent with each other or sexually acting out such that you became afraid of assertiveness or sexuality; afraid of their own vitality and, consequently, were verbally or physically abusive when you showed liveliness;
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