“In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
Abraham Maslow“Just because no one else can heal or do your inner work for you doesn’t mean you can, should, or need to do it alone.”
Lisa Olivera“Two things can be true. You can love your family and have deep wounds as a result of your family experiences.”
Nedra Glover Tawwab“What if you moved through the world as if you were easy to be loved? Because I promise you, you are easy to love.”
Sonalee Rashatwar, LCSW“Take a deep breath to remember you are the child who lived through survival mode and the empowered adult who chose their healing.”
Dr. Nicole LePera“Positive vibes only’ isn’t a thing. Humans have a wide range of emotions and that’s OK.”
Molly Bahr, LMHC“No amount of support or generosity justifies someone treating you badly. This includes parents.”
Sarah Crosby“I don’t regret opening up about what I went through [with depression], because, it sounds really cliché, but I have had women come up to me and say, ‘It meant so much to me.’ It means so much when you realize that someone was having a really hard time and feeling shame and was trying to hide this whole thing.”
Winona Ryder“It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
Jennifer Niven“Change what you can, manage what you can’t.”
Raymond McCauley
