Embracing Our Selves: Voice Dialogue Manual
They did not discover their possibilities for strength and self-support in the normal course of their development through childhood and adolescent years; now they may have organized their lives around their sense of deficiency, trying either to please, to be taken care of, or, alternately, to control and dominate, to manipulate and coerce the satis
... See moreNathaniel Branden • Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect
The mask of power is an attempt to get control of life and others by always appearing completely independent, aggressive, competent, domineering. Falsely reducing life to a struggle for domination, the power mask is attempting to escape from the vulnerability experienced as a child. Security and self-esteem rest on winning in all situations and bec
... See moreEva Pierrakos • The Undefended Self: Living the Pathwork
Since they originally disowned their inner child in order to survive, their re-owning process will include admitting that they actually do have an inner child, and that the child’s needs are valid and important.