Deanna L. Lawlis Biography & Quotes

Source: Of Ashes and Embers: Exploring Self Awareness After Spiritual Trauma

“We often reject evidence that contradicts our core beliefs because of discomfort and the fear of change; we fear acknowledging our agreement in these contradictions, sometimes for a lifetime, because new evidence would crumble the foundations we once stood upon as absolute. We face these contradictions every day, and every day we dismiss them to the wind.”

Truth Belief Fear Contradiction

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“When we draw a line in the sand, standing firmly upon this side or that side, we limit ourselves from experiencing the whole of humanity, which is inhumane.”

Humanity Experience Inhumanity Taking Sides

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“1. The WORLD problem is that we see eachother as separate from ourselves, but despite our vast differences in perception, we are all someone else's child, parent, etc, we are all loved and cared for by someone, and we are all HUMAN. 2. Stop preaching about your pro-life faith while you're supporting another human's death, whether it be a human difference of gender or gender identity, race, culture, politics, or nation. It's hypocritical. 3.There is a time to live and a time to die for everyone, and no matter how much we think we control that dialog, no matter what means creates our living and dying, it is as it is meant to be; or, do we not see life and death happening despite our perspectives?”

Life Humanity

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“While enduring the human condition, may we find strength in its temporary nature.”

Life And Living Grief And Regret

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“Sometimes I wish I had no empathy, not so it would hurt others, but so it wouldn't hurt me.”

Empathy Family Dynamics Trauma Bond

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“Innumerable possibilities account for all outword appearances. Only a small part of the whole is actually visible.”

Character Responses Surface Area Physics

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“It's become quite clear to me that I have a lot of crying to catch up on. How do I know? Because it swells up in my throat and causes my eyes to water.”

Acceptance Letting Go

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“It's become quite clear to me that I have a lot of crying to catch up on. How do I know? Because it wells up in my throat and causes my eyes to water.”

Acceptance Letting Go

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“Questions are not an act of rebellion, but not questioning is an act of submissive conditioning.”

Thoughts Thoughts Become Things Question Everything Perspective Is Everything Questions Challenge Thoughts Create Reality

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“There comes a moment in an adult addict's life where a mother can only experience the brief passing scent of her sweet little child, as they manipulate all who love them for their addiction.”

Children Parent Addiction Genetics

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“In an adult addict's life, a mother can only experience the brief passing scent of her sweet child as they manipulate all who love them for their addiction.”

Children Addiction Parents Manipulation

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“There will always be someone who rejects you for being you, just don't let that someone be you.”

Self Esteem Self Love Self Worth

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“You are not responsible for regulating everyone else's emotions.”

Emotions Narcissism Scapegoat Family Dynamics Regulating Feelings

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“If your information didn't come from the horse's mouth, then it came from the horse's ass-ociated member, and well, that's just pure horse manure.”

Behavior Memory Patterns Five Senses Reframing Thought Tangible Experience

Book:Of Ashes and Embers: Exploring Self Awareness After Spiritual Trauma

Source: Of Ashes and Embers: Exploring Self Awareness After Spiritual Trauma

“Spirituality shouldn't be politicized. It's like mixing water with raw sewage and drinking it. Deanna”

Spirituality Politics Christian Conservatives

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“A well conditioned (controlled) mind will have us disliking persons, places, and things that have not been a part of our personal five sensory experience.”

Identity Thoughts Of The Mind Mapping Reframing

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“Difference in world culture, tradition, belief, race, and perspective is NATURAL, and should be used as a tool for learning instead of for fearing and destroying.”

Differences Differences Of Opinion Differences Between People

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“Have we assembled to be heard and not to listen? What might be accomplished through such chaos?”

Argument Differences Of Opinion

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“When the family dynamic includes Generational Emotional Suppression and A Central Figure Who Benefited from Control, Narrative Dominance, and Triangulation, Generational Trauma explains context, but does not excuse Chronic Invalidation, Coercive Loyalty, Punishment for Differentiation, nor Recruitment of Others Against You.”

Punishment Coercion Invalidation Flying Monkeys

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“When you're a baby you get Luvs, Pampers, and Huggies, but when you're an adult... it Depends.”

Life Quotes Growing Older Age Gap

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“If you're not hearing it from the horse's mouth, you're hearing it from the horse's ass.”

Truth Or Lies

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“Why do we become so angry with different perspectives? Do we not understand how perspectives are formed? It takes a lifetime of every five sensory experience, correlated with familial, cultural, traditional, etc. conditioning, for one perspective (out of billions) to be formed within an individual mind. Seeing as to how no two individuals have ever lived an identical five sensory lifetime worth of experiences, it is only natural that we have differing perspectives.”

Thought Provoking Neuroscience Perspectives Quotes Mapping Your Life

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“You'll take my freedoms, I'll take your freedoms, and in the end there will be no freedom.”

Political Divisions

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“I did not ask to be placed in a position where self preservation required the loss of parental love and acceptance. That choice was made necessary by circumstances I did not create. Wanting safety should never cost a child their belonging, yet that was the price I was asked to pay.”

Abuse Survivors Family Dysfunction Covert Narcissistic Malignant Narcissist Scapegoat Child

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“If this life has taught me anything at all, it is how to stand tall with the few who stand with me.”

Family Dynamics Narcissistic Parent Triangulation Of Relationships

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“Have you read Matthew 23? Yehoshua Chrestos was neither a Christ(ian) nor a Nationalist.”

Christian Nationalism Anti Christ

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.”

Science Intuition Spiritual Wisdom

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

“In an era of habitual audible and visual disinformation, be the inquisitor of actuality.”

Facts Reality Truth Proven Actuality

Author:Deanna L. Lawlis

Deanna L. Lawlis Biography

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