“When we hide our emotions, we have trouble identifying for ourselves what we need and want and what our limits are.  We are then ill-equipped to communicate our needs effectively, and so we perpetuate situations in which our needs are not known or considered.  Our unspoken needs go unacknowledged.  Emotional neglect, even if it is neglect in which we collude, leaves us prone to intense anger.  Our needs, preferences, and limits exist even if we are unaware of them, and when they go unacknowledged, anger is our natural, adaptive response, a protest from a self whose interests need protection.” - Good stuff from Sheila M. Reindl, author of Sensing the Self: Women’s Recovery from Bulimia #Fury #GoodGirlGoneBallistic

“When we hide our emotions, we have trouble identifying for ourselves what we need and want and what our limits are.  We are then ill-equipped to communicate our needs effectively, and so we perpetuate situations in which our needs are not known or considered.  Our unspoken needs go unacknowledged.  Emotional neglect, even if it is neglect in which we collude, leaves us prone to intense anger.  Our needs, preferences, and limits exist even if we are unaware of them, and when they go unacknowledged, anger is our natural, adaptive response, a protest from a self whose interests need protection.”

- Good stuff from Sheila M. Reindl, author of Sensing the Self: Women’s Recovery from Bulimia

#Fury #GoodGirlGoneBallistic