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"Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon us. The perpetrator walked away, leaving us with the shame. We absorbed the notion that we are somehow defective. To cover for this we constructed a false self, a masked self. And it is this self that is the overachiever or the dunce, the tramp or the puritan, the powermonger or the pathetic loser."
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coverup
defective
defective-humans
false-self
feeling-bad
hidden-feelings
hidden-pain
hidden-self
overachiever
power-trip
toxic-shame
child-sexual-abuse-survivor
recovery-from-abuse
dunce
loser
healing-insights
survivor
puritan
healing
true-self
shame
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incest
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Maureen Brady |
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He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.
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puritan
meaning-of-life
focus
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Henry James |
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Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust; Fear not the things thou suffer must; For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes. William Bradford Plymouth Colony Governor
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colony
governor
mayflower
pilgrim
indians
puritan
survival
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Nathaniel Philbrick |
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Writers like Washington Irving, Charles Brockden Brown, and Nathaniel Hawthorne added uniquely American elements to their horror stories, informed by the early settlers' Puritan faith and fears of indigenous peoples: eerie woods, the devil, and witches. Even today, much of American horror fiction reckons to varying degrees with fears that are tied up in the nation's history, fears of supernatural evil, of the racial other, and of the frightful consequences of the violent past coming home to roost.
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puritan
gothic
colonialism
horror
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Lisa Kröger |