Stop Walking on Eggshells
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
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When you’re involved with someone who is unable to show empathy, your capacity for self-empathy becomes lost. (See cycle of isolation, depression, page 185.) Starved for understanding, you have become brainwashed; your internal voices of inadequacy and self-doubt drown out any possibility of your having self-compassion.
Rokelle Lerner • The Object of My Affection Is in My Reflection: Coping with Narcissists
But they still need to interact with others, so their problem is: “What is the safest way to interact with others when you cannot trust them?” And the solution, of course, is to control them.
Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
