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“No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.” quote by Susie Orbach — Download Open image

“No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.”

Susie Orbach

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Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with…

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We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

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I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.

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Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.

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“The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.”

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The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

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Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

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“Children who feel that they are unloved can believe that there must be something very wrong about them which makes them unacceptable. The stinging sense of being not right causes them confusion and hurt, but they do not give up the desire for love and acceptance. They despair of it, certainly. They pine for it and perhaps fear it. But…

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