Sentences with phrase «often painful past»

As their interactions deepen, the family begins to develop ever diverging accounts of their lives, drawn into reconstructing the often painful past.

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Loney's friends worked — with his tender assistance — to come to terms with their painful pasts, a task which often involved asking for forgiveness from their victim's families.

I added that middle part about convincing others, because in my career as a computer systems builder, I often remembered painful experiences and their causes, wanting to avoid future repeats... but was often not able to do so, because others either could not understand the level of complexity involved enough to want to avoid the pain, or because they were not involved in that past history and therefore could not remember it.

Resolving past incidents in the relationship that might be affecting the present — past painful experiences can often influence the way we behave and feel within current relationships.

Arrogance often evolves from an attempt to compensate for some painful past experiences that lowered self - confidence, suggests clinical psychologist Michelle Roya Rad in the Huffington Post article, «How to Deal With Self - Centered People.»

Briere's work reminds us how traumatized individuals often recreate their patterns of abuse, not just because that is their existing pattern of relating to others, but also because they are trying, at some level, to work through and master their painful pasts.

We often bury painful experiences from the past even though they can continue to affect the way we behave and think in the present.