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In Pink’s song, “Happy” she sings, “I take another hit, I find another fake fix, ‘Cause it’s easier than healing. I don’t wanna be this way forever. Keep telling myself that I’ll get better” Healing takes time, there is no easy way to heal. There…

Joseph Campbell said, “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” Trauma and painful life experiences create deep chasms within the heart, the mind and the soul. I believe that the…

One of my clients said to me the other day, “how do you heal without looking back?”  And my answer is that you can’t totally heal without looking back. And this is a question that sometimes comes up for people in general and clients in…

I love this quote from the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Live your way into the answer. So often when there are mental health struggles, particularly when there’s been attachment trauma, neglect and growing up in a homophobic and transphobic culture, it can be hard to…

In her book, The Crown of Gilded Bone, Jennifer Armentrout says, “I think too much value is given to forgiveness when it’s easier to forgive but far harder to forget. That understanding and acceptance is far more important than forgiving someone.” This quote might be…

I have been on a roll reading for pleasure lately and I love finding affirming quotes like this in my fun reading. In Hailey Edward’s book Gray Witch, she reminds us, “No child should grow up believing they were unlovable, that parts of them ought…