My belief is that the time has come for us to take the injuries of childhood and their consequences seriously ... This does not mean that we have to repay our parents' cruelty in kind. It means that we must see them as they were, and recognize the way they treated us when we were small. Then we can spare ourselves and our children the repetition of such patterns of behavior. We need to free ourselves of the "internalized parents" carrying on their deadly work within us. This is the only way we can say yes to our own lives and learn to respect ourselves.
-- Alice Miller, The Body Never Lies, p. 26
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