Ryan Holladay

“The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.”
— Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child

…s a great visualization technique for the process of dealing with your inner censors, incidentally. She suggests imagining these negative voices as irritating little mice that you can pick up one by one and place in a container that you set aside so they can fight it out amongst themselves — and leave you out of it entirely.)

“Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
―Louise Hay, You Can Heal Your Life