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  1. Maureen Brady _ Beyond Survival: A Writing

    We can ill afford to wait until we have worked through all our memories & feelings about incest before learning to rest & play. While it may seem to be a natural impulse to get to the bottom of things & purge ourselves fully, we need to regularly examine the full picture of our lives for balance along the way…Learning to rest & play is an essential part of our healing.
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  2. Maureen Brady _ Beyond Survival: A Writing

    The bridge out of shame is outrage. Suddenly the obvious becomes stunningly clear-we have been carrying shame for the crime of the offender…In a clear flash we may see ourselves standing in a fierce stance, grounded by our knowledge, ready to throw off any wrongdoer. Our outrage can be a fueling energy, capable of making us as steely as we need to be."
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  3. Maureen Brady _ Beyond Survival: A Writing

    The bridge out of shame is outrage. Suddenly the obvious becomes stunningly clear-we have been carrying shame for the crime of the offender…In a clear flash we may see ourselves standing in a fierce stance, grounded by our knowledge, ready to throw off any wrongdoer. Our outrage can be a fueling energy, capable of making us as steely as we need to be.
    book-quoteoutragehealingrage

  4. Maureen Brady _ Beyond Survival: A Writing

    When shame is met with compassion and not received as confirmation of our guilt, we can begin to see how slant a lens it has had us looking through. That awareness lets us step back far enough to see that if we can let it go, we will see ourselves as clean where we once thought we were dirty. We will remember our innocence. We will see how our shame supported a system in which the perpetrators were protected and we bore the brunt of their offense - first in its actuality, then again in carrying their shame for it. If the method we chose to try to beat out shame was perfectionism, we can relax now, shake the burden off our shoulders, and give ourselves a chance to loosen up and make some errors. Hallelujah! Our freedom will not come from tireless effort and getting it all exactly right.
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  5. Maureen Brady _ Beyond Survival: A Writing

    Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon us. The perpetrator walked away, leaving us with the shame. We absorbed the notion that we are somehow defective. To cover for this we constructed a false self, a masked self. And it is this self that is the overachiever or the dunce, the tramp or the puritan, the powermonger or the pathetic loser.
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  6. Maureen Brady _ Beyond Survival: A Writing

    When we are ready to let go of our old controls, we admit that we were powerless over the incest or abuse...We have often thought, 'If only I could have stopped it,' but we could not have stopped it. We let go of the 'if only' now and sit still with our stark powerlessness…In our surrender to powerlessness, we touch ourselves with the gift of truth.
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  7. V.C. Andrews _ Seeds of Yesterday

    The sun was hot and bright. A day for fishing, for swimming, for playing tennis and having fun, and they put my Christopher in the ground.
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  8. V.C. Andrews _ Seeds of Yesterday

    Only I had dry eyes, a dry heart.
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  9. V.C. Andrews _ Seeds of Yesterday

    Once I was in the cold dim room, without furniture or carpet or rugs, only a dollhouse that wasn't as wonderful as the original, I opened the tall and narrow closet door and began my ascent up the steep and narrow stairs. On my way to the attic.On my way to where I'd find my Christopher, again...
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  10. V.C. Andrews _ Seeds of Yesterday

    I had heard the wind from the mountains calling me last night, telling me it was my time to go, and I woke up, knowing what to do.
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  11. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    All right, Chris, you've given me a breather. I'm prepared foranything.And thank you for saying all of that, and for loving me, for youhaven't gone unloved, or unadmired, yourself." I kissed him quickly onthe lips, and told him to go on, to hit me with his knockout blow."Really, Chris, I know you must have something perfectly awful to tellme-so out with it. Keep holding me as you tell me, and I can standanything you have to say.
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  12. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    And thank you for saying all of that, and for loving me, for you haven't gone unloved, or unadmired, yourself.
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