Tina Welling > Quotes

“Whatever we can bring into the light of consciousness, we can use in our life’s work. Whatever stays hidden in the dark of our unconscious is using us.”
― Tina Welling, Writing Wild: Forming a Creative Partnership with Nature

“The inmates invariably reflected back to me in exaggerated ways my own issues, my own stopping places, or as Jungians call it, my shadow.
Sometimes I wondered why I so eagerly grabbed my coat, zipped out the door, and drove to the jail on Tuesday nights when it meant that I was forced to confront my flaws.”
― Tina Welling, Tuesdays in Jail: What I Learned Teaching Journaling to Inmates