“I need to find ways to be okay with the way I look and feel right now. Relegating happiness to the end of the process only breeds despair”
“It reads as a short story, but only us, the children of narcissistic/enabling parents, know the deep pain contained within”
“We’d appreciate you not rubbing your good fortune in our faces while we keep hoping for a new government that will grant us Sundays”
“Dovid Hamelech first validates the pain, acknowledges the suffering (whether major or trivial), and only then moves on to focusing on the merit suffering has”
“We can spare people tremendous heartache if we think before asking questions”
“Once I started therapy, I told my mother that I can’t imagine relating to a boy who didn’t have to work on himself”
