We can't heal what we don't feel.

Unfortunately, one of the greatest powers of toxic shame is that it creates automatic, unconscious defenses: like Idealization, repression, denial, dissociation.

So most people don't heal this shame and end up passing it down to their children, through hierarchal power structures, coercion, and denial.

Dysfunctional Family Rules: Chaos or Control, Perfectionism or Anomie, Blame self or others, Denial of freedoms,

John Bradshaw's website.

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