“The walls you’ve built to protect you are the same walls blocking your blessings.”— Stephan Labossiere, lewishowes.com
“I have this defense mechanism, this survival tactic of playing dumb. It’s my way of playing possum.”— Chris Pratt, theguardian.com
“Blaming yourself for your childhood traumas protects you from seeing how vulnerable you were and are. You can become the powerful one. If it’s your fault, it’s ― at some strange level ― under your control.”— Johann Hari, huffingtonpost.com
“A final scenario describes the incipient codependent toddler who largely bypasses the fight, flight and freeze responses and instead learns to fawn her way into the relative safety of becoming helpful. She may be one of the gifted children of Alice Miller’s Drama Of The Gifted Child, who discovers t…”— Pete Walker, pete-walker.com
“this lonely attracts men to my ankles, the way the drip of a mango causes fire ants to find their teeth.”— Hilda Davis, theoffingmag.com
“To receive compassion means I am weak. And I am terrified of being weak.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“All living organisms develop defense mechanisms against attack. They adapt. They find some way to survive.”— Kate Trefry, Dr. Owens, Paul Reiser, imdb.com