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“Heal the masculine and feminine energies within you, so you can cultivate healthier relationships with both in your life.”
― Robin S. Baker

“This healing isn’t a one-time event; it is a process of rededicating ourselves to ourselves, over and over again. Every time we redirect our attention back to our feelings, our desires, and our dreams, we are healing. Every time we soothe ourselves through our guilt instead of reacting to it, we are healing. Every time we use our voice where we would have once stayed silent, we are healing.”
― Hailey Paige Magee, Stop People Pleasing: And Find Your Power

“The fact that someone understands is enough, even though one cannot understand oneself then the temperature drops and a certain quietness comes, and then perhaps the patient may also understand. Archetypal contents are sometimes far away and if the patient is not drawn to them in these terms you cannot get the meaning across, but the feeling that somebody else understands has a calming effect.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, The Psychological Meaning of Redemption Motifs in Fairytales

“One thing therapy has taught me is that we all handle things differently. Two people can be at the same place at the same time and have two entirely different experiences.”
― A.E. Valdez, Colliding With Fate

“He’s still in shock, but sooner or later, his trauma will catch up to him, and the anger will surface. Better we allow him to purge it in a way that brings him closure, than let it simmer beneath the surface and poison him.”
― Marie Mistry, Across an Endless Sea

“On an individual basis, unless one has worked to address their feelings and issues through years of therapy and other gentle, natural options, and unless one has examined the personality, past, and underlying issues, as well as the relationship with social media, then healthy body parts should not be cut off. We are harming our children and pretending we are helping them when we do not allow them time to mature.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“A dysregulated nervous system is the most confining prison that can trap you.

But if you can understand the bodily cues of safety and danger, you can learn how to regulate your responses and harness the most effective key to free your mind.”
― Chris Warren-Dickins, Beyond Your Confines: The Workbook: How to use your nervous system to free your mind

“There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy”
― Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

“...few things can trigger us or make us go crazy like our intimate relationships can. Love is like a Roto-Rooter - it will push every button you own; it will bring up to the surface every unhealed wound and fissure that has lodged inside your body. Nothing stimulates hurt quite the way love does. As we shall see, we all marry our unfinished business.”
― Terrence Real, Us: Reconnect with Your Partner and Build a Loving and Lasting Relationship

“Shame-based clients require the kind of security-giving relationship that has been lacking in their lives.”
― Gershan Kaufman

“When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy waters long enough to have gained some self-knowledge, some self-regard, and a sense of the accuracy of my own perceptions.”
― Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

“Children’s and adolescentsâ€� sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist.”
― Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

“I know it won't bring her back or help me to understand why she left us like that, but it helps me to make sense of how I feel about it.”
― Alison Walsh, All That I Leave Behind: A powerful, heart-breaking story of family secrets

“Implying that realities are merely psychotic experiences or that they exist in a realm that is not legitimate disregards Indigenous belief systems, which value spiritual experiences and recognize the impact of ancestral trauma”
― Renee Linklater, Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

“Duran argues for the need for healing institutions to retain culturally competent staff and that the adherence to strictly Western models of treatment maintains the colonization process. Hodge, Limb, and Cross claim that the Western therapeutic project is inconsistent with many Indigenous cultures and often serves as a form of Western colonization.”
― Renee Linklater, Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

“Life is like the lunar cycle,
sometimes it is full shining,
sometimes it is half shining,
other times it goes totally dark.

The unpredictability of life
is what makes life predictable.
Sometimes it rains cats and dogs,
the next moment sunshine is unavoidable.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“I've always said there are forest people and desert people. Forest people are nurturing and fertile, but they have a tendency to hide behind their branches. I'm a desert person. Hard and acerbic and difficult to endure, but honest. You always know what you're getting in the desert because there isn't anywhere to hide. In that dry air, you can see a storm coming from ten miles away.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“What do you think you’ll lose?â€�
“I don’t know.� I check your amber eyes for signs of impatience, but you don’t seem mad. Just curious.
“I’ll never make you tell me anything you don’t want to tell me,� you say. “But you are right, Callie. Sometimes it will feel like you’re losing something.�
I reach for another tissue. Wet, wadded-up tissues keep piling up in my lap.
“But Callie,â€� you say. “If we work hard, you’ll find something much better to take the place of whatever you give up. I promise.”
― Patricia McCormick, Cut

“Feeling a little lighter, the session had opened some space inside him. He had a little more internal bandwidth. However, he knew it wouldn't take long for the gap to be filled in again, like a hole dug too close to the ocean.”
― Juliette Rose Kerr, To Fill a Jar With Water

“One of the best perks of being a child therapist is that parents think you are awfully clever when their child shows dramatic improvement. Mostly what happens is that the child grew up. He reached a new developmental stage that let him share, control his aggressive impulses, or make a friend.”
― Michael G. Thompson, Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children

“....it's important, my therapist thinks, for me to be my full self without worrying that love will go away if I am not small and pleasant, accommodating.”
― Naima Coster, Lila

“By the end of that semester of free therapy, I was very tired of talking about myself. I was tired of myself. Each week I dutifully showed up, because I was supposed to, and relitigated whatever I had talked about the previous week. Replaying the details of that night demystified it, at least in terms of my involvement. More accurately, noninvolvement, because how could it have ended any differently? That was just the historian trying to wedge himself into a story that was not his.
Talking so much did nothing to lessen the fact that I missed you, and that I could now periodize different eras of that feeling. I miss missing you circa Oct 98, I wrote in my journal. I miss not watching my back, I miss going out for dinner at night, I miss your balcony and cultivating minor league tobacco habits.
I missed that feeling of having once known exactly what to say. That feeling of writing a series of perfect sentences. In a sense, I was still, years later, stepping down from the podium at the funeral home, shuffling slowly back to my seat in the pews between Anthony and Sean. But this was exactly why Derrida resisted the eulogy form. It’s always about “meâ€� rather than “we,â€� the speaker burnishing his emotional credentials rather than offering a true account of the deceased.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True

“No one in my usual circle of acquaintances would have made it this far without a Xanax and an emergency call to their therapist.”
― Jenn McKinlay, It Happened One Christmas Eve

“Writing about your past allows you to be released from its restrictions and limitations on your present life.”
― Jack Freestone

“Use your creativity as a source of therapy.”
― Robin S. Baker

“I called every therapist my insurance claimed was accepting clients, most of whom were not—a few specialized only in children. One told me she only spoke to dying people and did not think it clever to retort we were all terminal cases.”
― Valentine Glass, Jarring Sex

“Sometimes the best thing anyone can do for someone else is justâ€� listen.”
― Ivy Fox, Penalty to the Heart

“Writing has always been my sanctuary. It's my escape from the chaos, a safe place where I can process my thoughts and feelings and emotions. For me, it's therapeutic and vital for managing anxiety and PTSD.”
― Niedria D. Kenny

“There's something incredibly healing about pouring your soul onto paper. Writing helps me untangle my mind and find clarity amidst anxiety and PTSD. It's my go to therapy.”
― Niedria D. Kenny

“The most gifted healers are those who are continually and actively doing their own inner work behind the scenes.”
― Laurie E. Smith