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Pete Walker on verbal abuse

Verbal abuse is the use of language to shame, scare or hurt another. Dysfunctional parents routinely use name-calling, sarcasm, and destructive criticism to overpower and control their children. Verbal abuse is as commonplace in the American family as homework and table manners. It is modeled as socially acceptable in almost every sitcom on television.

― Pete Walker, The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame
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Pete Walker on Emotional Love

Fully feeling people are also rewarded with increasing richness in their relationships – both with themselves and with others. Love manifests as a palpable warmth and excitement when it is grounded in the heart and body by feeling. Emotional love is so much more profound than the lightweight intellectual experiences of thought-bound people for whom love is often only an ideal, a dream, or a hungry expectation.

― Pete Walker, The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame
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Pete Walker on Bibliotherapy

Bibliotherapy is a term that describes the very real process of being positively and therapeutically influenced by what you read. As stated earlier, when it is at its most powerful, bibliotherapy is also relationally healing. It can rescue you from the common CPTSD feeling of abject isolation and alienation.

― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
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