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1 " To heal into wholeness, love was much more productive than shame. "
― , The Truth in Our Scars: Untangling Trauma to Discover Your Secret Self
2 " Grief isn't always when someone dies--itcan be for the parts of us that died while we were still alive. "
3 " I've learned having insight means you can gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding of a person or thing. In my case, the deep intuitive understanding was of my core self, and how it contributed to my illness. Insight, or what I call "in-sight"-looking in- is the key to developing self-awareness. You need insight to be introspective, to examine and observe your mental and emotional processes and make changes accordingly. It involves the ability to have a flexible perception that can see from many angles, not onlyfrom your pre-existing lens which often gets distorted by your belief system. I can now see cause-and-effect both on my part and by others-how they intertwine with one another and how interactions get filtered through the lens of our experiences, beliefs, and expectations. "
4 " The failures of our parents may become our burden, but it is our choice to continue carrying it onward into the next generation or put it down. My adopted beliefs were my written script for living, and I played it out like a self-fulfilling prophecy. As I moved toward healing, I learned unconscious patterns can change once brought into awareness. "
5 " The image of perfection I portrayed was nothing more than a figurative house, built for protection from the elements of my inner suffering. "
6 " When you turn knowledge inward, you can create thepersonal insights needed for growth. Looking within myself for answers was much too scary, so it remained a struggle for a long time. I continued looking to others for answers, hoping to fill the void, until it became much scarier when this outlook nearly took my life. "