Fear Nothing Quotes

“Pain is very useful. It warns you of danger, teaches you of hazards and provides consequences for your actions.”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“Because sometimes pain is knowing, and sometimes pain is sharing that knowledge with someone who loves you but can't do anything to help.”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“Pain is not what you see and not what you feel. Pain is what you can only hear, alone in the dark.”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“humanity is a messy business, where knowing what is right doesn’t necessarily preclude you from doing what is wrong.”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“Not the cute kind of cuckoo, or the lights-on-but-nobody's-home loony. She's really, genuinely, sold my-soul-to-the-devil crazy. She don't care about me or anyone else in the place. I mean, sure, she killed Frankie. And maybe she wanted to save the rest of us or whatever. But mostly, she just plain wanted to kill him. I mean, she stabbed him like a zillion times. Then licked his blood. I don't remember Wonder woman ever doing that at the end of an episode.”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“The Internal Family Systems model subdivides the mind into four main parts. At the core is your Self, the natural leader of the system. Then there is the section called the Exiles, which include pain and trauma you’re not ready to process yet so you have cast aside. Unfortunately, the Exiles need to share their stories. They will continue to act out, in the form of rage, terror, grief and shame, until they are heard. “When the Exiles act up, the next group, the Firefighters, kick into gear. Classic firefighting techniques include drug or alcohol abuse, binge eating, other short-term cover-ups for long-term pain. Finally there are the Managers. This section also tries to keep the Exiles at bay through hypercontrolling every situation. Striving, judging, self-criticizing, all come from the Managers. Basically your exiled pain/trauma causes emotional distress, which in turn goads the Firefighters into various self-destructive acts and the Managers into various repressive acts. And around and around you go, whirling through the dysfunctional cycles of life, caused by the core Self not being the one in charge.” “I”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“MY PAIN IS NAMED”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“MCKINNON was a beautiful woman. High, sculpted cheekbones,”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“eagle on her own bed, staring up at the ceiling with sightless blue eyes. Pretty features appearing nearly peaceful as her shoulder-length brown hair pooled softly upon a stark white pillow.”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“with any parolees who’d once served time with Shana Day, the parole officer had a candidate: Christi Willey, released last”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“As an advocate of the Family Systems model, I would say that’s because you have acknowledged the piece of yourself that you were uncomfortable with, the Exile, resulting in your true Self being once more centered and in control.”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“In addition,” I continued evenly, “by having you establish an ongoing dialogue with your pain, I’m attempting to move you beyond your current combative relationship with your own body. Acknowledging what you are feeling will lead to acceptance, which will lead to advancement. Basically, as you just experienced, when you talk with Melvin, you feel better. When you curse at him, you feel worse.” “But I don’t like Melvin.” “Does that mean you can’t respect him? Appreciate his role?” “I want him to go away.” “Why?” “Because he’s weak.”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“In contrast, I’m trying to get you to look inward. Focus on steady breathing, slowing your heart rate and lowering your blood pressure, which in turn, eases your nervous system and increases your threshold for pain. Hence, the deep-breathing techniques used for centuries by laboring mothers and yoga devotees.”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“Don’t ignore your pain. Register, accept, then work with your own body to push through. Naming your pain . . . It’s simply a device to help you identify and focus. If calling your pain Melvin makes you feel stupid, don’t do it. Refer to it as Pain or don’t call it anything at all. But acknowledge your pain threshold. Consider how your injury feels. Then work with your body to do what you need to do.”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“You hurt, and you hate hurting. Worse, you feel helpless, which in turn makes you feel hopeless, and you are not a woman accustomed to either emotion.”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“even further, and I shivered inside my wool coat as I trudged back to my car, two grocery bags in hand. I wanted to go home, but I still had the crushed vials. Where could you dispose of broken glass and no one would notice?”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“this is the way sisters have”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing

“D. D. Warren knew from experience,”
― Lisa Gardner, Fear Nothing