Aoheng Quotes & Sayings

SHAME-BASED FAMILY RULES Each family system has several categories of rules. There are rules about celebrating and socializing, rules about touching and sexuality, rules about sickness and proper health care, rules about vacations and vocations, rules about household maintenance and the spending of money. Perhaps the most important rules are about feelings, interpersonal communication and parenting. Toxic shame is consciously transferred by means of shaming rules. In shame-based families, the rules consciously shame all the members. Generally, however, the children receive the major brunt of the shame. Power is a cover-up for shame. Power is frequently hierarchical. — John Bradshaw

Conformity is a type of calm where you hover motionless on the edge of a scream that never comes. — Bryant McGill

The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should noise it abroad far and wide, utterly regardless of what opinions he shocks. — Henry Thomas Buckle

MADDIE: ....it's just me against the world, and it's the loneliest feeling ever. — Ruby Dixon

That's a good weight ... for a small woman — Dorian Yates