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Brave : A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma QUOTES

Brave : A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma QUOTES

1 " At sixty one, I was at the top of my professional career, a wife, mother, and grandmother with many wonderful friends--and absolutely terrified....I was unaware of living as multiple identifies, but did spend my life running away from a 'me' I could neither understand nor tolerate....The first step to becoming one whole person happened to me the day in therapy when I became aware of the three adults who had been living in separate compartments in my brain. I saw them and they saw each other....A perfect three-point landing. "

― Janyne McConnaughey , Brave : A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma

2 " Me too. The ever-present inability to please is why this sense of dread and shame was so pervasive. There was no memory. No specific incident caused it. It was ever present then, and it was ever present now. "

― Janyne McConnaughey , Brave : A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma

3 " I knew this anger. It was never clear where it came from or how violently it escalated. I feared it because it had ruined a relationship in high school. It had been tightly controlled ever since. "

― Janyne McConnaughey , Brave : A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma

4 " God had made my life wonderful but never protected me from the pain, which engulfed me from my earliest years. I had lived two lives. In one, lived the “amazing me”—strong, intelligent, accomplished, loving, and free. In the coexistent life, I was damaged, hurting, fearful, needy, and dysfunctional. One trusted; the other did not. "

― Janyne McConnaughey , Brave : A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma