“Boundary violations are deeply experienced.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Boundaries Copy Share Image
“Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Change Copy Share Image
“When you wear a mask, you are not real.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Change Copy Share Image
“They sought the pain they knew so well and called it love.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Love Copy Share Image
“Change is threatening to the status quo.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Change Copy Share Image
“Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“If no one has boundaries…how can there be any transgression?” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Boundaries Copy Share Image
“Everyone needs a place to be honest.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Change Copy Share Image
“Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Chaos Copy Share Image
“Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Black hole Copy Share Image
“We violated each other’s boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of “just kidding.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Anger Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Change Copy Share Image
“The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Boundaries Copy Share Image
“Change will not successfully happen unless the emotional component is solved.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Change Copy Share Image
“Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Change Copy Share Image
“Codependency is a learned set of behaviors, thought processes, and habits. When combined together, they fit a very loose definition. All people… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Chaos Copy Share Image
“Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Boundaries Copy Share Image
“When one person attempts to “fix it” for the other person, the connection of acceptance is snapped and the sender and receiver… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Acceptance Copy Share Image
“Consider letting go of the barriers between yourself and others, let go of the definition our culture has inflicted upon us and… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“When I learned about the gray existing between the black and white of absolute terms, I began to experience more peace. The… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Acceptence Copy Share Image
“This imbalance causes resentments within the over-responsible and dependency with the irresponsible person and this dynamic becomes the destructive life-pattern not conducive… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Codependency Copy Share Image
“As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Change Copy Share Image
“Wounded parents often unintentionally inflict pain and suffering on their children and these childhood wounds causes a laundry list of maladaptive behaviors… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Chaos Copy Share Image
“Since children from dysfunctional families are so good at judging others, they also judge themselves finding themselves unacceptable when compared to others,… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Acceptence Copy Share Image
“Many of the habits of dysfunctional families use are not from the lack of love but are the result of fear. Knowing… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Change Copy Share Image
“Others hide from being real by filling the air with words; the more words they throw out, the less actual communication happens… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Change Copy Share Image
“You did not invent these family habits. Your family is like mine, for thousands and thousands of years our families have embraced… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Acceptence Copy Share Image
“REAL people do not have to lie, exaggerate, or brag for they are self-contained in self-understanding and acceptance of themselves. REAL people… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Acceptence Copy Share Image
“Acceptance is the most beautiful word in any language; this beautiful concept can only exist when you allow other people to be… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Acceptance Copy Share Image
“The key problem I encounter working with wounded, depressed, and unhappy people is a lack of connection…starting from a disconnection from themselves… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Change Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult to develop a proper sense of self-esteem in a dysfunctional family. Having very little self-worth, looking at one’s… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Acceptence Copy Share Image
“Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Acceptence Copy Share Image
“The more judgmental a person is the sadder they are.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Change Copy Share Image
“Honoring your word is the fiber from which trust is built.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Chaos Copy Share Image
“When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Change Copy Share Image
“If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Change Copy Share Image
“The strange part about a person’s lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Change Copy Share Image
