Quotes by Maureen Brady

“Fearing the unknown within myself has kept me crouching in a corner. I look to see who I am and discover much that is worthy.”

“I create a home that is a safe and nurturing place for me, where I am free to gather myself.”

“When shame is met with compassion and not received as conrmation 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...”

“Power is confusing for us, perhaps even terrifying, because our relationship with it had an unfortunate beginning. Someone in a position of power over us used and abused usIt seems as if power were...”

“When we first begin to take power more directly, after long having kept our relationship to it underground...it is natural that we experience anxiety, even guilt, at putting ourselves first. These ...”

“For change to occur in us, we must be willing to enter the wilderness of the unknown and to wander in unfamiliar territory, directionless and often in the darkness....We do not need to keep every l...”

“I am empowered by self-knowledge, by ownership of my experiences, and by all aspects of myself.”

“I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame.”

“In the grief that comes with recognizing what happened to us, we often feel there is nowhere to turn for solaceWe do things to keep it away, such as becoming overly busy or using drugs or alcohol t...”

“Your instincts may tell you that you cant survive if you experience feelings. But they are leftover child instincts. Theyre the ones that first told you to freeze your feelings. They themselves are...”

“As we move away from the old role in which we were helplessly entrapped as a victim, we make friends with the people who affirm us. Their enthusiasm about us mirrors the positive experience we are ...”

“I value and honor the way that my suffering brings me to further search and surrender.”

“I choose to let positive attitudes lighten my being today.”

“Because we were treated neglectfully and abusively in our young yearswhen we most needed self-love to be mirroredit was difficult to hold ontoWe take up the challenge of learning to love ourselves,...”

“I am building a healthy support system and learning to use it readily.”

“I am a whole person and have the potential to bring together all the different aspects of myself.”

“I choose what sort of relationship I want to have with my family of origin today.”

“We each have our own ways of sabotaging & keeping ourselves downDo we need to remain the victim so strongly that we pull the ceiling down upon our own heads? There is a comfort in the familiar. Als...”

“In order to survive our youth, many of us became sensitized to which conditions we had to play to, to receive attention. No wonder we mistook this attention for love. We thought love came in finite...”

“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 no...”