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| | Mormonism, Alice Miller, and Me |
 | | When Miller speaks of children "as they really are at any given time," she is referring to their own authentic feelings, wishes, and needs, which form the core of the self, the "feeling of self" around which a sense of identity will develop. |
 | | Miller refers to this suppression of parts of the child's true self as a partial "killing off" of what is spontaneous and alive in the child. |
 | | Miller believes that It is one of the turning points in healing when we are able to experience the reality that much of the love we have struggled so hard to gain, with so much self-denial, was not intended for us as we really are, but rather for our false selves. |
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