Lisa Firestone Quotes
People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.

-Lisa Firestone
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In order for people to live their own lives and fulfill their destiny, they must differentiate themselves from destructive environmental influences.

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Differentiating from parental introjects and psychological defences based on the emotional pain of childhood is essential not only for neurotic or seriously disturbed individuals; it is a central developmental issue in every person’s life.

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A destructive thought process exists within all of us, and we are plagued to varying degrees by an internal dialogue that is harmful, restrictive, and at its ultimate extreme, self-destructive.

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We can best help our children not by sacrificing ourselves for them, but by trying to fulfill our own lives. When we are involved in an honest pursuit of our own goals, we serve as positive role models for our children.

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We live in a largely addictive society that continues to reinforce the defenses we learned as children; this reinforcement comes in the form of a negative social pressure to soothe ourselves, to try to obtain instant gratification. . . Many people who suffered deprivation in childhood . . . Read more

-Lisa Firestone
It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.

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Our real self is under siege by our anti-self.

-Lisa Firestone
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