Shadows Before Dawn Quotes

“What would someone who loves themselves do?”
― Teal Swan, Shadows Before Dawn: Finding the Light of Self-Love through Your Darkest Times

“decide to make how you feel the number one priority in your life—in”
― Teal Swan, Shadows Before Dawn: Finding the Light of Self-Love through Your Darkest Times

“One of the leading techniques that is used in trauma integration involves a process where you consciously revisit traumatizing memories, rescue your childhood self out of each of those memories, and then bring those childhood versions of you to a safe space where you then reparent them.”
― Teal Swan, Shadows Before Dawn: Finding the Light of Self-Love through Your Darkest Times

“Parents and adults in our society found a way to preserve their own self-concept, and that was through feeding themselves, as well as you, with the belief “It’s for your own good.” We are fed this lie from day one. Even those of us who grow up in the most loving households are fed this lie. We make our children sit through hours of lessons in the prison-like environment we call school and tell them it’s for their own good. We discipline them in ways that are painful to their minds and bodies and tell them that it’s for their own good.”
― Teal Swan, Shadows Before Dawn: Finding the Light of Self-Love through Your Darkest Times

“I was unfixable, I saw that my innocence didn’t go anywhere. Like the tiny flame on the end of a matchstick, it may have flickered, but it didn’t die. I found my inherent goodness again. I found the part of me that couldn’t be harmed by the people who found a way to harm everything else about me. Gradually, I began to reparent myself. By loving and caring for my inner”
― Teal Swan, Shadows Before Dawn: Finding the Light of Self-Love through Your Darkest Times

“do you give yourself enough attention? Do you settle for second best? When you look in the mirror, does your attention immediately gravitate toward flaws? When you are sad, do you tell yourself to “get over it”? Do you try to suppress or silence your feelings by being passive-aggressive or indulging in an addiction? Just take some time to look at your life, and write down all the ways in which”
― Teal Swan, Shadows Before Dawn: Finding the Light of Self-Love through Your Darkest Times

“how” we think we will get happiness is the middleman,”
― Teal Swan, Shadows Before Dawn: Finding the Light of Self-Love through Your Darkest Times

“We all know on some level that it is important to love ourselves. But when people say that “all you have to do is love yourself,” it’s kind of like telling a child in kindergarten that he or she has to solve a college physics equation. Like that bewildered child, we have no idea where to begin. We are standing in a place where we don’t love ourselves and haven’t for some time. We simply have no idea where to start and where to go from here.”
― Teal Swan, Shadows Before Dawn: Finding the Light of Self-Love through Your Darkest Times