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“We can feel a great love for our
mother but, because the bond never fully developed, feel that she was weak and
fragile and that we needed to take care of her. In our need to feel bonded with
her, the direction of tending can go in reverse. Unknowingly, we can attempt to
provide our mother with the very nurturance we desperately need ourselves.”
― Mark Wolynn, It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

“The thing is that there are millions of scary things that can happen to us in our lives. That is true for everyone. When we are hung up on one scary thing over another, it’s not
because it’s a more imminent or likely threat; it’s because we are less convinced, we would be able to respond to it.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery / 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“Your big life change is going to force you to level up in every way imaginable, and the way to overcome the initial fear of stepping into the unknown is to familiarize yourself with it, to make it a part of you, one that you are
certain you are prepared for—and that you deserve.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery / 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“I have been isolated and alone just like you. I can see that this doesn’t even
belong to me. I know this is not what you want for me. And I know it burdens
you to see me suffer like this. From now on, I will live my life connected to the
people around me. In this way, I’ll honor you.”
― Mark Wolynn, It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle