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Secrets of Your Family Tree: Healing for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families QUOTES

Secrets of Your Family Tree: Healing for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families QUOTES

1 " When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger comes the ability to express delight; with sadness comes the ability to express lightheartedness. This is the breadth of emotion that allows an adult to experience intimacy with a spouse, with God, and with his children "

― Henry Cloud , Secrets of Your Family Tree: Healing for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families

2 " He is the Truth, and He wants us to deal in truth with ourselves and our loved ones. We want the truth about you and your family to flood into and overrun the secrets that keep you in bondage to dysfunctional behavior and relationships "

― Henry Cloud , Secrets of Your Family Tree: Healing for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families

3 " It is easy to dump all the problems and responsibilities of a family on a single member. Yet when we look at David’s family we can see that the whole family needed to deal with a number of issues. Let’s look at a few of them: 1. Each member of the family has hurts. Each member of the family needs help. There is no such thing as a scapegoat. It is easy for a family to designate one of its own. "

― Henry Cloud , Secrets of Your Family Tree: Healing for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families