John Bradshaw Quotes

You can't heal what you can't feel!

Every tear should live its purpose. Don't ever wipe the reason away.

I do my best to allow myself to really feel it [emotional pain]. Cry. Get all in it. Really experience my experience so that I may move through it. And talk about it. I try not to let anything get brushed over and swept under the rug.

Don't hold back from being an 'empath.' Don't be afraid of shedding your tears. Feel it. Feel the full extent of everything. It gives us strength.

We're humans, and we're moved by emotions.

If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.

I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component, without the softening that comes with love and vulnerability, everything else I do is really just surface.

If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.

Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.

It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned how to make feeling work for me... I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about.

Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

I can access emotions very easily.

I have no human feelings.

Everyone can teach themselves to cry... but sometimes you have just got to see that mental movie going on. You've got to be feeling it.

I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

Some people can't connect with their own emotions.

I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other people's.

Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into.

I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut-terin', or about them bein' off their nut.

Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.