If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.
The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings. - Alice Miller
The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.
- Alice Miller
The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our fee… - Alice Miller
The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our fee…
We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respe… - Alice Miller
We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respe…
Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humili… - Alice Miller
Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humili…
I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--becaus… - Alice Miller
I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--becaus…
someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which … - Alice Miller
someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which …
An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time. - Alice Miller
An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.
For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath. - Alice Miller
For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.
People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both in t… - Alice Miller
People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both in t…
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