Many of us learned that keeping busy…kept us at a distance from our feelings.. Some of us took the ways we busied ourselves–becoming overachievers & workaholics–as self esteem… But whenever our inner feeling did not match our outer surface, we were doing ourselves a disservice… If stopping to rest meant being barraged with this discrepancy, no wonder we were reluctant to cease our obsessive activity. Maureen Brady
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  1. 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.
  2. I create a home that is a safe and nurturing place for me, where I am free to gather myself.
  3. 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...
  4. 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 little thing under control. In fact, we find ourselves...
  5. I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame.
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